Yona Yahav

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Yona Yahav
Date of birth 19 June 1944
Place of birth Haifa, Mandate Palestine
Knesset(s) 14th
Party Kadima

Yona Yahav (Hebrew: יונה יהב‎, born 19 June 1944) is an Israeli lawyer and politician.

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Born in Haifa during the Mandate era, Yahav reached the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Military Police Corps of the Israel Defense Forces. He studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, gaining a LL.B, before continuing his legal studies at the University of London. Whilst at university he was secretary general of the World Jewish Student Union.

Yahav became active in politics, and worked as an advisor to then-Minster of Transport Gad Yaacobi, as well as being employed as a spokesman and assistant for Teddy Kollek, mayor of Jerusalem.

In 1996 he was elected to the Knesset as a member of Labour and served as the chairman of the subcommittee for banking. However, he lost his seat in the 1999 elections.

Yahav later left Labour and joined Shinui. In 2003 he was elected mayor of Haifa on a joint Shinui-Greens ticket, having already served as deputy mayor. On 29 June 2006 he defected to Kadima, but remains mayor of the city. He is also chairman of the Haifa Economic Company and previously chaired the Haifa International Film Festival organisation and the city's theatre executive.

[edit] Bibliography

  • The Anatomy of the Fall of the Labor Party with Shevah Weiss (1977)
  • Libel and Slander (1987, updated and re-released in 1996)

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Preceded by
Amram Mitzna		 Mayor of Haifa
2003–present		 Incumbent
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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–)
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