Yousef Haikal

Haikal was born in 1907 in the city of Jaffa. After learning at the Arab College in Jerusalem, he sought degrees in Montpellier, Paris and the University of London, before returning to Mandatory Palestine in 1938. He served as the General Inspector of Awqaf (Muslim public properties in Palestine) for four years, and then as a District Judge in Nablus between 1943 and 1945.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TbAMAQAAMAAJ&q=%22District+Judge+(Palestine)+43-45;+Mayor+of+Jaffa+45%22 |title=The Middle East |date=1958|publisher=Europa Publications |pages=438}} On 30 March 1945, Haikal was appointed to chair the Jaffa Municipal Commission by Mandatory authorities,{{Cite book |last=Government of Palestine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gjorAQAAMAAJ |title=Ordinances, Regulations, Rules, Orders and Notices: Annual edition for 1945 |year=1945 |volume=2 |pages=284–285 |language=en}} thus becoming Mayor of Jaffa.{{Cite news |date=1945-07-02 |title=בקרב הערבים |url=https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/dav/1945/07/02/01/article/7?&srpos=1&e=-------he-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI-%d7%99%d7%95%d7%a1%d7%95%d7%a3+%d7%97%d7%99%d7%99%d7%9b%d7%9c+%d7%99%d7%a4%d7%95----1945---------1 |access-date=2024-04-19 |work=Davar |publisher=National Library of Israel |pages=1}} 18 months after becoming mayor, Haikal held an election for the office, which he proceeded to win.{{Cite web |date=2020-04-11 |title=יפו המנדטורית והזכות ההיסטורית על פלסטין |url=https://www.mekomit.co.il/הזכות-ההיסטורית-על-פלסטין/ |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=Sicha Mekomit |language=he-IL}}{{Cite book |last=Monterescu |first=Daniel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mo8bCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Mayor+of+Jaffa%22&pg=PA14 |title=Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine |date=2015-08-24 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-01683-6 |pages=14 |language=en}}

In February of 1948, during the Palestine war, Haikal contacted David Ben-Gurion through a British intermediary trying to secure a peace agreement with nearby Tel Aviv, which was opposed by the commander of the city's Arab militia.{{Cite book |last=Morris |first=Benny |title=The birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947–1949 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1987 |isbn=0-521-33028-9 |pages=47}}{{Cite book |last=Morris |first=Benny |title=The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-521-00967-6 |pages=114–115}} In May, Haikal left the city for Jordan.

In 1949, Haikal was appointed Jordanian Minister to the United States,{{Cite news |date=1949-05-12 |title=T.J Minister to Washington |pages=2 |work=The Palestine Post |publisher=National Library of Israel |url=https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/pls/1949/05/12/01/article/9/?e=-------he-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI--------------1 |access-date=2022-10-07}} In August of 1952, he became Jordan's representative at the International Monetary Fund.{{Cite journal |last= |date=1953 |title=International Monetary Fund Annual Report 1953 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781616351656.011 |journal=International Monetary Fund |series=Annual Report of the Executive Board |pages=119 |doi=10.5089/9781616351656.011 |isbn=978-1-61635-165-6 |issn=2227-8915|url-access=subscription }} He held both positions until December of 1953.{{Cite book |last=Fund |first=International Monetary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zaoQAAAAIAAJ&dq=Yousef+Haikal+international+monetary+fund&pg=RA2-PA146 |title=Annual Report of the Executive Directors for the Fiscal Year |date=1953 |publisher=International Monetary Fund. |language=en}}{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xN0tAAAAYAAJ&dq=Yousef+Haikal+december+1953&pg=PA1939 |title=Foreign Relations of the United States |date=1986 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=1939 |language=en}} He subsequently led the Jordanian Delegation with the Jordan–Israel Mixed Armistice Commission in Jerusalem between 1953 and 1954. He subsequently served as Jordan's ambassador to the United Kingdom between 1954 and 1956, to France between 1956 and 1957, to the United States In 1957 and then again in 1959,{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2008-03-16 |title=Jordan |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/s/cpr/94067.htm |access-date=2022-10-08 |website=Department Of State |language=en}} to India between 1962 and 1964 and to the Republic of China between 1964 and 1969. Haikal also served as Jordan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations between 1957 and 1962.{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}}

After retiring from his diplomatic posts, Haikal moved to Lebanon and wrote a memoir. Hilmi Hanoun, long-term mayor of Tulkarm, was a son of Haikal's sister, Asya.{{cite journal|author=Yousef Heikal|title=Jaffa… as It Was|page=7|journal=Journal of Palestine Studies|volume=13

|issue=4|year=1984|translator=Imad El-Haj|doi=10.2307/2536987|jstor=2536987 }} Haikal died in 1989 and was buried in Amman.

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