In 1918, after serving for one year as mayor of Jerusalem, al-Dajani joined the Administrative Committee of the Muslim-Christian Association (MCA) and went on to become Jerusalem and then regional president of the organization.
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The editor of the newspaper Suriya al-Janubia (Southern Syria), Aref al-Aref, another Arab Club member, delivered his speech on horseback at the Jaffa Gate.
In 1921, he was appointed as a District Officer of the British administration by the Civil Secretary Colonel Wyndham Deedes.
During a training session on 6 October 2009, Dajani got into a heated war of words with youth player, Raphael Maltinsky.
The Dajani family has been the custodians of Prophet (King) David’s Tomb on Mount Zion for eight hundred years.
Palestinian historian Aref al-Aref says local legend attributes this Umar ibn al-Khattab who ordered Arab general Amr ibn al-'As to build a mosque next to every church in lands conquered by the Muslims.