- Zvi Zilker
Eng' Zvi Zilker ( _he. צבי צילקר "Tzvi Tzilker", born
1933 ) is current mayor of the city ofAshdod inIsrael . [http://news.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=354742 Local council elections 2003 results] Haaretz, 29 October, 2003 he icon]Zilker was born in
Berlin and immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine in1935 with his parents. Between 1963 and 1969 he was a member of the regional council and then city engineer ofAshdod . In 1969 he was elected for the first time to be mayor of the city, became Ashdod's second mayor. Although he left office in 1983 when he was succeeded byAryeh Azulay , he became mayor for a second time in 1989 and has retained the position since.References
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