Einat Kalisch-Rotem ( he, עינת קליש-רותם; born 3 September 1970) is an

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urban planner and politician serving as mayor of

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

since 2018. She is the first female mayor to lead any of the three major cities in Israel.

Career

Kalisch first ran for Mayor of Haifa in

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. she won 14% of the vote, coming in third place behind Yaakov Borowski and incumbent

Yona Yahav Yona Yahav ( he, יונה יהב, born 19 June 1944) is an Israeli lawyer and politician. He was formerly a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party. Yahav was the mayor of Haifa between 2003 and 2018. In the 2018 Haifa mayoral election, he l ...

. She was convicted in March 2018 of violating the Planning and Construction Law in the Court for Local Affairs in

Hadera Hadera ( he, חֲדֵרָה ) is a city located in the Haifa District of Israel, in the northern Sharon region, approximately 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the major cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa. The city is located along 7 km (5&nbs ...

, regarding the construction of a private house in

Zichron Yaakov Zikhron Ya'akov ( he, זִכְרוֹן יַעֲקֹב, ''lit.'' "Jacob's Memorial"; often shortened to just ''Zikhron'') is a town in Israel, south of Haifa, and part of the Haifa District. It is located at the southern end of the Carmel mounta ...

, which was built without a building permit and fined 30,000 ILS. In the municipal elections of 2018 held in October, she and her party were disqualified from running in the elections according to the decision of the Elections Administration, after the Labor Party's lawyer signed both her forms and those of the "Lovers of Haifa" list run by Yisrael Savyon of the Labor Party. This created a situation in which two lists represented the Labor Party in the elections in the city, in violation of the election law. In response, Kalisch-Rotem and several organizations submitted a petition to the Haifa District Court, but the petition was rejected. In the appeal filed with the

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, her appeal was accepted, and it was determined that she was entitled to contend because she acted in good faith. In the 2018 Haifa mayoral election, she defeated Yona Yahav with 56% of the vote.

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