Amram Mitzna
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Amram Mitzna (Hebrew: עמרם מצנע; born February 20, 1945) is an Israeli politician who served as the mayor of Haifa from 1993 to 2003.
He was born in Kibbutz Dovrat to German Jewish refugees. [1]
He retired from the Israel Defense Forces in 1993 with the rank of major general (2nd highest ranking in the IDF) and had previously commanded the IDF Northern Command, he was decorated with the Medal of Distinguished Service for his actions during the Six-Day War. He was elected mayor of Haifa the same year.
He won the Israeli Labor Party elections on November 19, 2002 (54% of the vote) and proceeded to become the leader of Labor until the party's landslide defeat in the parliamentary elections in 2003. Mitzna resigned from the government shortly after, and Shimon Peres was elected as the new Labour leader.
During the 2002 Labor Party elections, Mitzna proposed that Israel pursue further negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, but if they failed to yield a solution, that Israel withdraw from the Gaza Strip and most of the West Bank, and unilaterally set its "final borders". The Kadima party later adopted a similar platform for unilateral disengagement.[citation needed]
Early November 2005, Mitzna was appointed by Israeli Internal Affairs Minister as acting mayor of Yeruham, a town in the southern Negev region, after the elected mayor was forced to step aside, due to incompetence.
| Preceded by Benjamin Ben-Eliezer |
Leader of the Labour Party of Israel 2002–2003 |
Succeeded by Shimon Peres |
| Preceded by Arie Gur'el |
Mayor of Haifa 1993–2003 |
Succeeded by Giora Fisher |
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