Karim Khalaf was Mayor of which West Bank city for 10 years in the late 20th century?
Karim Khalaf Karim Hanna Sama'an Khalaf (Arabic: كريم حنا خلف‎ ‎ , 1935–1985) was a Palestinian attorney and politician who served as the Mayor of Ramallah from 1972 to 1982.
Beit Sira Beit Sira (Arabic: بيت سيرا‎ ‎ ) is a Palestinian village in the central West Bank, located 22 kilometers west of Ramallah and is a part of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate. The village is situated along the Green Line. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, around 4,000 dunams of its land became a part of the "No-Man's Land" strip between the north-central West Bank and Israel. Currently Beit Sira's jurisdiction is 3,120 dunams, of which 441 dunams are built-up areas and the remainder is open spaces for future construction or agricultural land.