Ron Huldai

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Ron Huldai (רון חולדאי)

Ron Huldai
Mayor of Tel Aviv
Incumbent
Assumed office 1998
Preceded by	Roni Milo
Personal details
Born	(1944-08-26) 26 August 1944 Hulda, Mandate Palestine
Political party	Labor
Religion	Judaism
Military service
Allegiance	Israel
Service/branch	Israeli Air Force
Years of service	1963–1989
Rank	Brigadier General (Tat Aluf)

Ron Huldai (Hebrew: רון חולדאי‎; born 26 August 1944) is an Israeli politician, academic administrator, former fighter pilot and current mayor of Tel Aviv.

He was born in 1944 in Hulda (his surname is taken from the name of the kibbutz) to Polish parents from Łódź. He is a history graduate of Tel Aviv University, Auburn University Montgomery (Alabama), the U.S. Air Force Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base (Montgomery, AL), and the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Ron Huldai Tel Aviv Mayor

In the course of his twenty-six years of military service in the Israeli Air Force (1963–1989), he served as a combat pilot and held several key senior command positions. As Brigadier General, he was in charge of the Air Force Pilots Training School. He also served as a coordinator of the government authorities and supervisor of civilian construction projects for the IAF.

Following his retirement from active duty in 1989, he entered the private sector. Three years later, he became headmaster of the prestigious Herzliya Hebrew High School and remained in office for six years.

A member of the Labour Party, Huldai was first elected mayor of Tel Aviv in 1998, was re-elected in 2003 with 62% of the vote,^[1] and again in 2008 with 50.6%.^[2]

Huldai ran for mayor in 2008 municipal elections as part of the One Tel Aviv list, a partnership between Labor and Kadima. He was supported by the Pensioners, the city council's largest faction.^[3]

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↑ Likud loses control of several major cities Haaretz, 29 October 2003
↑ Somfalvi, Attila (2008-11-12). "Khenin Loses to Huldai, Promises to Continue Battle from Knesset". Ynetnews. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
↑ Igal Hai (29 October 2008). "Local Election 2008 / Khenin could force second round in TA elections". Haaretz. Retrieved 24 January 2014.

v t e Mayors of Tel Aviv (1921–1949) and Tel Aviv-Yafo (1949–)

Meir Dizengoff (1921–1925) David Bloch-Blumenfeld (1925–1927) Meir Dizengoff (1928–1936) Moshe Chelouche (1936) Israel Rokach (1936–1953) Chaim Levanon (1953–1959) Mordechai Namir (1960–1969) Yehoshua Rabinovitz (1969–1974) Shlomo Lahat (1974–1993) Roni Milo (1993–1998) Ron Huldai (1998–date)

Persondata
Name	Huldai, Ron
Alternative names
Short description	Israeli politician
Date of birth	26 August 1944
Place of birth	Hulda, Israel
Date of death
Place of death

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