Yehoshua Rabinovitz ( he, יהושע רבינוביץ, 12 November 1911 – 14 August 1979) was an Israeli politician who served as a government minister and mayor of Tel Aviv.

Biography

Born in Vishneva in the Russian Empire (today in Belarus), Rabinovitz attended high school in Vilnius, and went on to train as a teacher in the same city. He worked as a teacher and headmaster, and was a member of the HeHalutz movement. He made

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to the Mandate Palestine in 1934 and studied in the economics and law school of Tel Aviv University. Prior to independence, he worked for

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, and was involved in the

Haganah Haganah ( he, הַהֲגָנָה, lit. ''The Defence'') was the main Zionist paramilitary organization of the Jewish population ("Yishuv") in Mandatory Palestine between 1920 and its disestablishment in 1948, when it became the core of the ...

. In 1955 he was elected onto Tel Aviv city council, serving until 1959. That year he became Deputy Mayor in charge of Finances, a position he held until becoming mayor in 1969. He served as mayor until 1974. Although not a member of the Knesset, he was appointed

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in March 1974 by Golda Meir. After Meir resigned, he became Minister of Finance in Yitzhak Rabin's government, serving until 1977. In the

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he was voted into the Knesset on the Alignment's list, but lost his cabinet post as Likud formed a right-wing government. His seat was taken by Esther Herlitz. While attending the funeral of David Horowitz in August 1979, Rabinovitz suffered a heart attack and died from it soon after.

Commemoration

Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv, officially named "Ganei Yehoshua," is named for him.Changing pollution into paradise
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References

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