Before the Israeli occupation in 1967 of Jerusalem and the West Bank, elections for the administrative body of the Al-Makassed Islamic Charitable Association took place in Jerusalem, and since there were two lists competing in the elections and the competition intensified, it was agreed - after the intervention of a number of Palestinian personalities - to choose neutral people from outside these two lists. Sheikh Abdul Hamid Al-Sayeh, His Eminence Sheikh Saad Al-Din Al-Alami, the lawyer Omar Wari, the lawyer Ibrahim Bakr, the lawyer Hafez Tahboub, the engineer Ibrahim Al-Daqqaq, and others were chosen to be members of the next administrative board. A few months had passed since this appointment, but the June War had taken place.