Arie Gur'el

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Arie Gur'el (20 November 1918- 28 October 2007)^[1] was mayor of Haifa from 1978 to 1993. He was affiliated with the Israeli Labor Party.

Goral was born in Warsaw, Poland, to parents Moshe and Tzila, and made Aliyah in 1935. After arriving in Israel, he joined the Haganah. After the War of Independence, he studied electrical engineering and worked in the establishment of telephone networks. From 1959 to 1968, he worked as a radio technician in the Haifa area and in northern Israel. Starting in 1968, he served as the General Director of the Ministry of Labour for ten years.

In 1978, Gur'el was elected mayor of Haifa, and was instrumental in establishing the cable-car, as well as the promenade in the Bat Galim neighborhood. Also during his time in office, air purification stations were established, and the pedestrian mall on Nordau Street and the Louis Promenade in Merkaz HaCarmel were also built. His reign as major of Haifa is remembered by the numerous promenade streets and the funicular.

Gur'el published a number of articles on the topic of the absorption of electromagnetic rays from above the horizon.

[edit] See also

Sarah and Meir Aharoni, The people and the events of Haifa and the surrounding area 1993

[edit] References

^ "Former Haifa mayor Aryeh Gur'el dies aged 89", The Jerusalem Post, 2007-10-28. Retrieved on 2007-10-28.

Preceded by Yeruham Zeisel	Mayor of Haifa 1978–1993	Succeeded by Amram Mitzna

v • d • e Mayors of Haifa

Ottoman rule (1775-1920)	Najib Effendi al-Yasin (1873-1877) • Akhmad Effendi Jalabi (1878-1881) • Mustafa Bey al-Salih (1881-1884) • Mustafa Pasha al-Khalil (1885-1903) • Jamil Sadiq (1904-1910) • Rif'at al-Salah (1910-1911) • Ibrahim al-Khalil (1911-1913) • Hasan Bey Shukri (1914-1920)

British (1920-1948) and Israeli rule (1948-present)	Abd al-Rahman al-Haj (1920-1927) • Hasan Bey Shukri (1927-1940) • Shabtai Levy (1940-1951) • Abba Hushi (1951–1969) • Moshe Flimann (1969–1973) • Yosef Almogi (1974–1975) • Yeruham Zeisel (1975–1978) • Arie Gur'el (1978–1993) • Amram Mitzna (1993–2003) • Giora Fisher (interim mayor, 2003) • Yona Yahav (2003–)