Mordechai Ish-Shalom ( he, מרדכי איש-שלום), (1902–1991), was an Israeli politician and labor leader. He was the Mayor of West Jerusalem from 1959 to 1965.
Biography
Mordechai Ish-Shalom was born in
Lithuania
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during the reign of the
Russian Empire
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. He
immigrated
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to
Mandate Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 i ...
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
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congress.
In 1964, Ish-Shalom established an interdisciplinary professional team to plan the modernization of Jerusalem.
In the 1970s, he was instrumental in the development of
Kiryat Wolfson
Kiryat Wolfson ( he, קריית וולפסון), also known as Wolfson Towers, is a high-rise apartment complex in western Jerusalem. Comprising five towers ranging from 14 to 17 stories above-ground, the project was Jerusalem's first high-rise de ...
, a five-tower high-rise project overlooking
Sacher Park
Sacher Park (Hebrew: גן סאקר) is the largest public park in the center of Jerusalem,