Editing Jenin (section)

==Government==
Jenin municipality was established in 1886 under the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] rule with no more than 80 voters and elections were made every 4 years until 1982 when the Israeli government took control over the municipality until 1995. {{Citation needed|date=December 2011}}

List of Jenin mayors:<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20081007010210/http://www.jenincity.com/man/man.htm List of Mayors of Jenin]}} Jenin Municipality.</ref>
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*Andulmajeed Mansour
*Abdulrahman al-Haj Hassan
*Ragheb Al-Souki
*Al-Haj Hassan Fazaa
*Tawfeek Mansour
*Bishara Atallah
*Hussein al-Abboushi
*Aref Abdulrahman
*[[Fahmi al-Abboushi]]
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*Tahseen Abdulhadi
*Abdulraheem Jarrar
*Saleh Arif Azzouqa
*Hussni al-Souki
*Ahmed Kamal allSa'adi
*Ahmed Shawki al-Mahmoud
*Shehab al-Sanouri
*Abdullah Lahlouh
*Waleed Abu Mwais (appointed)
*Hatim Jarrar
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Municipal elections were held in Jenin on 15 December 2005. Six seats each were won by [[Hamas]] and the local coalition of [[Fatah]] and the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]]. Jenin was one of several Palestinian cities where Hamas showed a dramatic growth in electoral support.
<ref>[http://alternatives-international.net/article85.html Palestinian Municipal Elections, the Left is advancing, while Hamas capitalizes on the decline of Fatah] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060322183413/http://alternatives-international.net/article85.html |date=2006-03-22 }} Nasser Ibrahim, December 22, 2005</ref> [[Hadem Rida]] was then elected as Mayor of the city, until he was arrested by the Israel Forces and spent 3 years in jail. After his release, he resigned from the position and went back to practice in his clinic in Jenin city.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}