Mordechai Ish-Shalom
Mordechai Ish-Shalom | |
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Mayor of Jerusalem | |
In office 1959–1965 | |
Preceded by | Gershon Agron |
Succeeded by | Teddy Kollek |
Personal details | |
Born | Lithuania, Russian Empire | 2 January 1902
Died | 21 February 1991 Jerusalem, Israel | (aged 89)
Political party | Mapai |
Mordechai Ish-Shalom (Hebrew: מרדכי איש-שלום), (1902–1991), was an Israeli politician and labor leader. He was the Mayor of West Jerusalem from 1959 to 1965.
Biography[]
Mordechai Ish-Shalom was born in Lithuania during the reign of the Russian Empire. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1923. His labor career began in the Stonecutters' Union in 1935; he then rose through the ranks of the Histadrut, the Israeli trade union congress. In 1964, Ish-Shalom established an interdisciplinary professional team to plan the modernization of Jerusalem.[1]
In the 1970s, he was instrumental in the development of Kiryat Wolfson, a five-tower high-rise project overlooking Sacher Park.[2]
Ish-Shalom died at the age of 89.[3]
References[]
- ^ [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eq1KzSIf8wMC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=mordechai+ish+shalom&source=bl&ots=pwmqcsH3MA&sig=2EGwdI13yZ3dOqwiTIKsDiBkBfY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZzKyf__vSAhULuhoKHfnmCIE4ChDoAQg6MAY#v=onepage&q=mordechai%20ish%20shalom&f=false Modernism and the Middle East: Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century, edited by Sandy Isenstadt, Kishwar Rizvi]
- ^ Dvir, Noam (21 May 2010). מגדלי וולפסון בירושלים - האח הגדול של הולילנד [Jerusalem's Wolfson Towers: The Big Brother of Holyland]. Haaretz (in Hebrew). Retrieved 12 January 2014.
- ^ "Mordechai Ish-Shalom, Jerusalem Ex-Mayor, 90". New York Times. 23 February 1991. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
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- Mayors of Jerusalem
- 1902 births
- 1991 deaths
- Lithuanian Jews
- Lithuanian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- Jews in Mandatory Palestine