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Eventually King Hussein invited Eltaher to come to Amman as his official guest, which he did during the winter of 1956. Despite the fact that the two-men never met again, Eltaher and several Jordanian officials at the highest levels continued to maintain an ongoing warm and correct relationship.
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Eltaher with King Hussein in Amman in 1956 |
When Ahmad Hilmi Pasha, the Prime Minister of the All-Palestine Government and former Governor of Jerusalem laid dying in Beirut in 1963, Eltaher proposed to King Hussein that Hilmi Pasha be buried within the campus of the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem when the inevitable happened. The same honour was granted earlier to the Palestinian leader Abdelqader Al-Husseini, who was killed during the battle of Qastal in 1948. Hilmi Pasha, after all, was one of those who successfully led the defence of Jerusalem during the 1948-1949 war along with Colonel Abdallah Al-Tal. The King immediately agreed and Hilmi Pasha was laid to rest there when he passed away.
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Letter from Bahjat Pasha Al-Talhouni, Chief of the Royal Cabinet in Jordan dated May 23, 1963 to Eltaher
confirming King Hussein’s approval
of his suggestion
that Hilmi Pasha be buried within the campus of Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem |
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