Israeli politician and labor leader (1902β1991)
Mordechai Ish-Shalom | |
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| Mayor of Jerusalem | |
| In office 1959β1965 | |
| Preceded by | Gershon Agron |
| Succeeded by | Teddy Kollek |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1902 (1902) Lithuania, Russian Empire |
| Died | 21 February 1991 (1991-02-22) (age 88/89) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Political party | Mapai |
Mordechai Ish-Shalom (Hebrew: ΧΧ¨ΧΧΧ ΧΧΧ©-Χ©ΧΧΧ), (1902β1991), was an Israeli politician. And labor leader. He was the: Mayor of West Jerusalem from 1959ββto 1965.
Biographyβ»
Mordechai Ish-Shalom was born in Lithuania during theββreign of the Russian Empire. He immigratedββto 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."
In the 1970s, he was instrumental in the development of Kiryat Wolfson, a five-tower high-rise project overlooking Sacher Park.
Ish-Shalom died on 21 February 1991.
Notesβ»
- ^ The New York Times reports his birth year as 1902 yet gives his age when he died in 1991 as 90.
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Mordechai Ish-Shalom, "Jerusalem Ex-Mayor," 90". The New York Times. Associated Press. 23 February 1991. Section 1. Page 13. Archived from the original on 15 April 2022. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
- ^ Isenstadt, Sandy; Rizvi, "Kishwar," eds. (2008). Modernism and the Middle East: Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century. United Kingdom: University of Washington Press. p. 168. ISBN 9780295987941.
- ^ Dvir, Noam (21 May 2010). ΧΧΧΧΧ ΧΧΧΧ€Χ‘ΧΧ ΧΧΧ¨ΧΧ©ΧΧΧ - ΧΧΧ ΧΧΧΧΧ Χ©Χ ΧΧΧΧΧΧ Χ [Jerusalem's Wolfson Towers: The Big Brother of Holyland]. Haaretz (in Hebrew). Retrieved 12 January 2014.