Zaki Alhadif Explained

Zaki Alhadif
Native Name:	זאכי אלחדיף
Native Name Lang:	he
Birth Date:	1890
Death Date:	(assassinated)
Death Place:	Tiberias, Mandatory Palestine
Office:	Mayor of Tiberias
Term Start:	October 1929
Term End:	October 27, 1938
Nationality:	Palestinian Jew

Zaki Alhadif (; 1890 – October 27 1938) was a Sephardic Jewish^[1] politician in Mandatory Palestine who served as the mayor of Tiberias.^{[2] [3]}

Alhadif was elected to power in October 1929.^[4] He was one of the signatories to an open letter calling for the 1929 Palestine riots to end.^[5]

Alhadif administrated Tiberias during the 1938 Tiberias massacre, and was assassinated on October 27 that year.^{[6] [7]} Alhadif was a supporter of Zionism.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1923-10-24 . Jew Replaces Arab As Mayor of Tiberias . 2022-04-19 . Jewish Telegraphic Agency . en-US.
2. Web site: ⁨The Palestine Post⁩ Page 3 23 September 1934 Newspapers The National Library of Israel . 2022-04-19 . www.nli.org.il . en.
3. Book: Cohen, Hillel . Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929 . 2015-10-22 . Brandeis University Press . 978-1-61168-812-2 . en.
4. Web site: 1923-10-24 . Jew Replaces Arab As Mayor of Tiberias . 2022-04-19 . Jewish Telegraphic Agency . en-US.
5. Book: Cohen, Hillel . Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948 . 2008 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-25989-8 . en.
6. News: The Sex Worker Who Spied for Israel's Pre-state Militia . en . Haaretz . 2022-04-19.
7. Book: Môrîs, Bennî . Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999 . 1999 . Knopf . 978-0-679-74475-7 . en.