Yehoshua Rabinovitz
Yehoshua Rabinovitz (Hebrew: יהושע רבינוביץ, born 1911, died 14 August 1979) was an Israeli politician who served as a government minister and mayor of Tel Aviv.
Born in Vishneva in Poland (today in Belarus), Rabinovitz attended high school in Vilnius, and went on to train as a teacher in the same city. He worked as a teacher and headmaster, and was a member of the HeHalutz movement. He made aliyah to the Mandate Palestine in 1934 and studied in the economics and law school of Tel Aviv University. Prior to independence, he worked for Mashbir HaZarhan, and was involved in the Haganah.
In 1955 he was elected to Tel Aviv city council, serving until 1959. That year he became Drputy Mayor in charge of Finances, a position he held until becoming mayor in 1969. He served as mayor until 1974.
Although not a member of the Knesset, he was appointed Minister of Housing in March 1974 by Golda Meir. After Meir resigned, he became Minister of Finance in Yitzhak Rabin's government, serving until 1977. In the 1977 elections he was voted into the Knesset on the Alignment's list, but lost his cabinet post as Likud formed a right-wing government.
External links
Yehoshua Rabinovitz on the Knesset website
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