Yitzhak Kariv ( he, יצחק קריב; 1902 in

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– 1999) was the

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from 1952 to 1955,נח זבולוני, חצי מאה של עיתונות ירושלמית
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er. As a member of the Mizrachi political party, he was appointed as a compromise between the parties of the

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, after Jerusalem's first

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mayor,

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, had resigned. In April 1955, a few months before the following elections, he was fired by the

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, who replaced him with an appointed committee (ועדה קרואה).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kariv, Yitzhak 1902 births 1999 deaths Mayors of Jerusalem Israeli Orthodox Jews Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine