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 | 2 January 1902
Died |
21 February 1991 89) Jerusalem, Israel | (aged
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
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