Anwar al-Khatib, 76, a Palestinian who served as governor of Jerusalem under Jordanian rule, died Feb. 7 at hospital in Arab east Jerusalem after a heart attack.
When Israel seized east Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East War, he 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 the busing of about 200,000 Palestinians from Jerusalem and the West Bank to Jordan after Israel's 1967 victory.
Mr. Khatib's office issued a statement saying he had arranged to reunite families of Jordanian officers and Arab diplomats but Chaim Herzog, the West Bank military governor who later became president of Israel, used his request to transfer thousands of Palestinians.
"He misused my demand and sent many buses to transfer Arabs to Jordan," Mr. Khatib said.
He was born in Hebron, now in the occupied West Bank, at the end of Ottoman Turkish rule over Palestine. A lawyer, he served on the Palestine Higher Islamic Council and later as a Jordanian government minister and Jordan's ambassador to Egypt.
Survivors include his wife, two daughters and a son.
