Mordechai Ish-Shalom

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.

Mordechai Ish-Shalom
Mayor of Jerusalem
In office 1 November 1959 – 29 November 1965
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 or 89)[lower-alpha 1] Jerusalem, Israel
Political party	Mapai

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. 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.
3. 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.