Einat Kalisch
Mayor of Haifa
Assumed office
20 November 2018
Preceded byYona Yahav
Personal details
Born (1970-09-03) 3 September 1970
Haifa, Israel
Political partyLabour
Children2
Alma materTechnion
ETH Zurich
OccupationUrban planner

Einat Kalisch-Rotem (Hebrew: עינת קליש-רותם; born 3 September 1970) is an Israeli urban planner and politician serving as mayor of Haifa since 2018.[1][2] She is the first female mayor to lead any of the three major cities in Israel.[3]

Career

Kalisch first ran for Mayor of Haifa in 2013. She won 14% of the vote, coming in third place behind Yaakov Borowski and incumbent Yona Yahav.[4]

She was convicted in March 2018 of violating the Planning and Construction Law in the Court for Local Affairs in Hadera, regarding the construction of a private house in Zichron Yaakov, which was built without a building permit and fined 30,000 ILS.[1][5]

In the municipal elections of 2018 held in October, she and her party were disqualified from running in the elections according to the decision of the Elections Administration,[1] after the Labor Party's lawyer signed both her forms and those of the "Lovers of Haifa" list run by Yisrael Savyon of the Labor Party. This created a situation in which two lists represented the Labor Party in the elections in the city, in violation of the election law. In response, Kalisch-Rotem and several organizations submitted a petition to the Haifa District Court, but the petition was rejected.[6] In the appeal filed with the High Court of Justice, her appeal was accepted, and it was determined that she was entitled to contend because she acted in good faith.[7]

In the 2018 Haifa mayoral election, she defeated Yona Yahav with 56% of the vote.[1][8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "In major upset, 3-term Haifa mayor trounced by female rival". The Times of Israel. 31 October 2018.
  2. ↑ Gil Hoffman (31 October 2018). "Haifa elects first woman mayor". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
  3. ↑ "Einat Kalisch-Rotem, the first woman to lead a major Israeli city, elected in Haifa". The Jewish Chronicle. 31 October 2018.
  4. ↑ "Haifa Elections Municipales - Municipal elections 2013". www.haifa-israel.info. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  5. ↑ Yael Darel (13 March 2013). "Because of a three floors private house and a basement: a candidate for the mayor of Haifa was convicted of a serious building offense". TheMarker (in Hebrew). Retrieved 8 November 2018.
  6. ↑ "Days before election, courts disqualify Haifa, Elad mayoral candidates to uproar". The Times of Israel. 18 October 2018.
  7. ↑ "High Court reinstates Haifa mayoral candidate, bans Elad contender". The Times of Israel. 22 October 2018.
  8. ↑ Schneider, Tal (31 October 2018). "Kalisch-Rotem takes Haifa, Huldai keeps Tel Aviv". Globes.
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