Ze'ev Zrizi (; 1916 – August 3, 2011) was an Israeli politician who was the second mayor of the city of

Beersheba Beersheba ( / ; ), officially Be'er-Sheva, is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the centre of the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in Israel, the eighth-most p ...

. Zrizi was a member of the city council from 1949, representing

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. In 1961 after political changes within the city, the city council appointed him to replace founding Mayor David Tuviyahu. In 1963, Zrizi was succeeded by Eliyahu Nawi, although he continued serving as Nawi's deputy in the ruling

Mapai Mapai (, an abbreviation for , ''Mifleget Poalei Eretz Yisrael'', ) was a Labor Zionist and democratic socialist political party in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the Israeli Labor Party in January ...

–Mapam coalition for nearly 20 years.

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