- Mordechai Ish-Shalom
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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 came 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 died at the age of 90.[1] The cause of death was not released[2]
References
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 al-Khatib (1948–50) • Aref al-Aref (1950–51) • Hannah Atallah (1951–52) • Omar Wa'ari (1952–55) • Ruhi al-Khatib (1957–67)
Titular: Ruhi al-Khatib (1967–94) • Amin al-Majaj (1994–98) • Zaki Al-Ghul (1999–)Israel (1967–) Categories:- Mayors of Jerusalem
- 1902 births
- 1991 deaths
- Jews in Ottoman and British Palestine
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- Workers' rights activist stubs
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