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Arab Higher Committee Members

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25 April 1936

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G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection

Front row, left to right: Raghib al-Nashashibi , former mayor of Jerusalem and leader of the National Defense Party ; Haj Amin al-Husseini , mufti of Jerusalem and president of the Arab Higher Committee (Lajna) ; Ahmad Hilmi Abd al-Baqi , chairman of the Arab National Bank and affiliated with the Independence Party ; Abd al-Latif Salah , chairman of the National Bloc Party ; and Alfred Roch , Catholic notable from Jaffa affiliated with the Palestine Arab Party . Second row, left to right: Jamal al-Husseini , chairman of the Palestine Arab Party; Dr. Hussein Fakhri al-Khalidi , mayor of Jerusalem and secretary of the Reform Party ; Ya'qub Ghussein , president of the Arab Youth Congress ; and Fuad Saba , Protestant notable and secretary of the Arab Higher Committee.

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