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Mordechai Ish-Shalom

Mordechai Ish-Shalom

Israeli politician and labor leader (1902–1991)


Mordechai Ish-Shalom (Hebrew: מרדכי איש-שלום), (1902–1991[1]), was an Israeli politician and labor leader. He was the Mayor of West Jerusalem from 1959 to 1965.

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Biography

Mordechai Ish-Shalom was born in Lithuania during the reign of the Russian Empire. He immigrated to 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.[1]

In 1964, Ish-Shalom established an interdisciplinary professional team to plan the modernization of Jerusalem.[2]

In the 1970s, he was instrumental in the development of Kiryat Wolfson, a five-tower high-rise project overlooking Sacher Park.[3]

Ish-Shalom died on 21 February 1991.[lower-alpha 1][1]

Notes

  1. The New York Times reports his birth year as 1902 yet gives his age when he died in 1991 as 90.[1]

References

  1. "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.
  2. 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.

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