Mordechai Ish-Shalom

Mordechai Ish-Shalom


Mayor of Jerusalem
In office 1959–1965
Preceded by	Gershon Agron
Succeeded by	Teddy Kollek
Personal details
Born	(1902-01-02)2 January 1902 Lithuania
Died	21 February 1991(1991-02-21) (aged 89) Jerusalem, Israel
Political party	Mapai
Religion	Jewish

Mordechai Ish-Shalom (Hebrew: מרדכי איש-שלום‎‎), (1902–1991), was an Israeli politician and labor leader. He was mayor of Jerusalem from 1959 to 1965.

Biography

Ish-Shalom was born in Lithuania and moved to British 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.

Ish-Shalom was instrumental in the successful development of Kiryat Wolfson, a five-tower high-rise project constructed in Jerusalem in the 1970s.^[1]

Ish-Shalom died at the age of 90.^[2] The cause of death was not released.^[3]

References

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↑ 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.
↑ http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1991-02-23/news/9102230164_1_ish-shalom-jerusalem-stonecutter

Mayors of Jerusalem

Ottoman Empire (1517–1917)	Musa al-Alami (n/a) Ahmad Agha Duzdar (1838–63) Abdelrahman al-Dajani (1863–82) Salim al-Husayni (1882–97) Yousef al-Khalidi (1899–1907) Faidi al-Alami (1907–09) Hussein al-Husayni (1909–17)

British Mandate of Palestine (1917–48)	Aref al-Dajani (1917–18) Musa al-Husayni (1918–20) Raghib al-Nashashibi (1920–34) Hussein al-Khalidi (1934–37) Daniel Auster (1937–38) Mustafa al-Khalidi (1938–44) Daniel Auster (1944–45)

West Jerusalem, Israel (1949–67)	Daniel Auster (1949–50) Zalman Shragai (1951–52) Yitzhak Kariv (1952–55) Gershon Agron (1955–59) Mordechai Ish-Shalom (1959–65) Teddy Kollek (1965–67)

East Jerusalem, Jordan (1949–67)	Anwar Khatib (1948–50) Aref al-Aref (1950–51) Hannah Atallah (1951–52) Omar Wa'ari (1952–55) Ruhi al-Khatib (1957–67)

Israel (1967–)	Teddy Kollek (1967–93) Ehud Olmert (1993–2003) Uri Lupolianski (2003–08) Nir Barkat (2008–)

Titular East Jerusalem, Palestine (1967–)	Ruhi al-Khatib (1967–94) Amin al-Majaj (1994–98) Zaki al-Ghul (1999–)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 49076909 LCCN: nr90014509

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