Anwar al-Khatib; Former Governor of Jerusalem

Anwar al-Khatib, 76, a Palestinian who served as governor of Jerusalem under Jordanian rule and was an adviser to the Jordanian-Palestinian delegation to U.S.-backed peace talks in 1991. When Israel seized East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war, Khatib was Jerusalem’s governor, or administrator. He later managed Jordan’s interests in Jerusalem from a small office. Two years ago, a controversy arose over his role in busing 200,000 Palestinians from Jerusalem and the West Bank to Jordan. Khatib’s office issued a statement saying that he had arranged to reunite families of Jordanian officers and Arab diplomats but that Chaim Herzog, the West Bank military governor who later became president of Israel, used Khatib’s request to transfer thousands of Palestinians. In Jerusalem on Sunday of a heart attack.