Yitzhak Kariv was the mayor

Mayor

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 of the Israel

Israel

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i part of Jerusalem from 1952 to 1955, and a bank

Bank

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er.

As a member of the Mizrachi political party

Mizrachi (Religious Zionism)

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, he was appointed as a compromise between the parties of the city hall

City hall

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, after Jerusalem’s first elected mayor, Zalman Shragai

Zalman Shragai

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, had resigned. On April 1955, a few months before the following elections, he was replaced fired by the Ministr of Interior, who replaced him with an appointed committee (ועדה קרואה).