Yona Yahav

Yona Yahav

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Date of birth = 19 June 1944
Place of birth = Haifa, Mandate Palestine
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Date of death =
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Knesset(s) = 14th
Party = Kadima
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Yona Yahav ( _he. יונה יהב, born June 19, 1944) is an Israeli lawyer and politician. He is currently the mayor of Haifa, Israel.

Biography

Yona Yahav was born in Haifa during the period of the British Mandate. [http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=60] Yahav reached the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Military Police Corps of the Israel Defense Forces.Cite book|author=Asher, Danny|month=April|year=2008|publisher=Israeli Ministry of Defense|title=Red and Blue - A Corps's Story 1948–2008|pages=p. 53 he icon] He studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, gaining a LL.B, before continuing his legal studies at the University of London. In London, he was secretary-general of the World Union of Jewish Students.

When he returned to Israel, Yahav became active in politics. He was an advisor to Minster of Transport Gad Yaacobi and the spokesman of 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 Corporation and previously chaired the Haifa International Film Festival organisation and the city's theatre executive.

Published works

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

External links

* [http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/exmk_eng.asp?ID=60 Yona Yahav on the Knesset website (in English)]

References


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