Head of the executive branch of the government of Haifa
Mayor of Haifa
Coat of arms of Haifa [he]
Incumbent Yona Yahav since 2024
Term length
5 years
The Mayor of Haifa is the head of the executive branch of the political system in Haifa. The mayor's office administers all city services, public property, most public agencies, and enforces city and state laws. The term of office is five years.
The MayorofHaifa is the head of the executive branch of the political system in Haifa. The mayor's office administers all city services, public property...
Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of 290,306 in 2022. The city ofHaifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan...
politician who served as mayorofHaifa for eighteen years between 1951 and 1969. Hushi was one of the founders and activists of Hashomer Hatzair movement...
The 2018 Haifamayoral election was held on 30 October 2018 to elect the mayorofHaifa. It saw the election of Einat Kalisch-Rotem, who unseated incumbent...
The 2024 Haifamayoral election was held 27 February 2024 to elect the mayorofHaifa. Originally scheduled for 31 October 2023, the elections were delayed...
most public agencies, and enforces city and state laws. The term of office is five years. Mayoral elections in Tel Aviv Mayorof Jerusalem MayorofHaifa...
held in Haifa to elect the city's mayor. Currently, such elections are regularly scheduled to elect mayors to five-year terms. Prior to 1978, mayors were...
the Palestine Zionist Executive. The president of the Muslim National Associations and the mayorofHaifa, Hassan Bey Shukri, has founded the organization...
an Israeli politician and former general in the IDF. He is a former mayorofHaifa (1993–2003) and Yeruham (2005–2010) and led the Labor Party from 2002...
(41%) of Arab-Israeli students. The University ofHaifa was founded in 1963 by Haifamayor Abba Hushi, to operate under the academic auspices of the Hebrew...
collection to one of Israel's museums. During a visit to Haifa he met Mayor Abba Hushi, and decided that the collection should remain in Haifa, and that he...
1876–1940) was the mayorofHaifa and the president of the Muslim National Associations. Hassan Shukri was born in Jerusalem and moved to Haifa as a child. The...
Shabtai Levy (Hebrew: שבתי לוי, 1876–1956) was the first Jewish mayorofHaifa. He held office from 1941 to 1951. Shabtai Levy was born in Istanbul, Ottoman...
larger families in the West Bank. Haifa city officials view it as a model of coexistence. Yona Yahav, a past MayorofHaifa has described the local Ahmadis...
mayorofHaifa in 1878–1881 Jalabe people of Nigeria, who speak the Jalaa language Jalabi, Iran Jalabi Rural District, an administrative division of Bandar...
Abuhatzera, former minister, head of the National Religious Party Yosef Almogi, former minister and mayorofHaifa Yigal Allon, former general, government...
progress of these properties in construction projects was welcomed by the mayorofHaifa Amram Mitzna (1993–2003). As far back as 1969 a presence of Baháʼís...
served as a deputy MayorofHaifa between 2011 and 2018. Abuhatsira is the youngest to ever serve in this position. Abuhatsira is the son of Eliyhau and Nelly...
in a number of Palestinian towns, and was led by the mayorofHaifa, Hassan Bey Shukri and Sheikh Musa Hadeib, head of the farmers' party of Mount Hebron...
Yeruham Zeisel (1909 – May 26, 1987) was the mayorofHaifa from 1975 to 1978. Yeruham Zeisel was born in 1909 in Tarnov, Galicia, (then Austria-Hungary...
Ahmad Effendi Jalabi was the mayorofHaifa between the years 1878–81 during the time of the Turkish Empire. Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) v t e v t e...
briefly served as the mayorofHaifa (1974–1975). He then served as chairman of the World Zionist Organization from 1975 to 1978 and head of the Jewish Agency...
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