Mordechai Ish-Shalom (; 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
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in 1923. His labor career began in the Stonecutters' Union in 1935; he then rose through the ranks of the
Histadrut
Histadrut, fully the New General Workers' Federation () and until 1994 the General Federation of Labour in the Land of Israel (, ''HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael''), is Israel's national trade union center and represents the m ...
, 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, a five-tower high-rise project overlooking
Sacher Park
Sacher Park (Hebrew: גן סאקר) is the largest public park in the center of Jerusalem,