Shlomo Zalman Shragai

Shlomo Zalman Shragai (Hebrew: זלמן שרגאי‎, 1899–1995) was an Israeli politician and Jerusalem's first elected mayor.

Shlomo Zalman Shragai
Mayor of Jerusalem
In office 1951–1952
Preceded by	Daniel Auster
Succeeded by	Yitzhak Kariv
Personal details
Born	31 December 1898 Gorzkowice, Russian Empire
Died	1 September 1995 (aged 96) Jerusalem, Israel
Political party	Hapoel HaMizrachi

Shragai was born into a Polish Orthodox Jewish family in Gorzkowice in 1899. He then became active in the religious Zionist movement and settled in Palestine in 1924,[1] already playing an important political role before Israel's founding in 1948.

In 1950, Shragai was elected mayor of West Jerusalem, a position he held for two years.[2] He then became the head of immigration of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. This was a time of extensive immigration to Israel from Muslim countries, so he often went on clandestine trips to these countries to obtain the release of the Jews living there. He served as honorary world president of Hapoel HaMizrachi movement.[3]

References

1. Obituary: Shlomo Shragai
2. "Shlomo Zalman Shragai, 96, a former mayor of Jerusalem and..." Baltimore Sun. 4 September 1995. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
3. Obituary: Shlomo Shragai

External links

• "Shlomo Zalman Schragai, Former Jerusalem Mayor, 96" in New York Times, September 4, 1995. Retrieved October 15, 2006.