Editing Nazareth (section)

==Government==
Nazareth contains a number of official buildings, some of which date back to the Ottoman era in Palestine. One of the most important of these buildings is the Nazareth Brigades, an important historical ruling building from the Ottoman period, built around 1740 by the [[Sanjak-bey|governor]] of Galilee, [[Zahir al-Umar]], who took it as his own home and as the Ottoman rule building, from which he supervised security in Marj Ibn Amer. The building housed stables and a prison. The building became the seat of the municipality of Nazareth after the [[Nakba]] in 1948 until the beginning of the 1990s, when the municipal headquarters moved to another place in the city.

===Mayors===
Since the establishment of its first municipality in 1875, Nazareth has had a number of mayors, including nine after the establishment of Israel in 1948, in addition to two temporary committees in two different periods.

* [[Thanos Kavar]] – 1875–1885
* [[Salim Bishara]] – 1924–1948
* [[Yousef Muhammad Ali Fahoum]] – 11 May 1948 – 30 June 1954
* [[Amin-Salim Jarjora]] – 15 July 1954 – 24 October 1959
* [[Seif el-Din el-Zoubi]] – 28 December 1959 – 20 December 1965
* [[Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi]] – 21 December 1965 – 2 May 1966
* Committee – 3 May 1966 – 18 December 1967
* [[Musa Ketelli]] – 19 December 1967 – 3 March 1971
* [[Seif el-Din el-Zoubi]] – 5 May 1971 – 13 May 1974
* Committee – 14 May 1974 – 9 December 1975
* [[Tawfiq Ziad]] – 9 December 1975 – 5 July 1994
* [[Ramiz Jaraisy]] – 4 August 1994 – 11 March 2014
* [[Ali Sallam]] – 11 March 2014 – present