Einat Kalisch-Rotem

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]

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

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. "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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