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Aharon Nahmias

Aharon Nahmias was an Israeli politician who served as mayor of Safed from 1973 to 1983 and as a Knesset member for the Alignment from 1981 to 1988.

1932 to 1998Mayor of SafedAlignment Knesset memberElectronic voting in the Knesset

Born: 10 June 1932, Safi
Died: 8 November 1998, Israel
Occupation: politician, trade unionist
Party: Alignment

Aharon Nahmias was born in 1932 in Safi

Aharon-Rafael Nahmias was born in Safi, Morocco, in 1932. He immigrated to Israel in 1951.

He sat on the coordinating committee of the Moshavim Movement and on the Hevrat Ovdim secretariat. From 1962 to 1973 he was secretary of the Safed Workers Council. He also served on the Local Government central committee and on the boards of the Shikun VePituah and Shikun Ovdim housing companies.

In 1973 he was elected mayor of Safed and held the post until 1983. In 1981 he entered the Knesset on the Alignment list and was re-elected in 1984, when he became Deputy Speaker. He helped initiate electronic voting in the Knesset plenum together with Michael Eitan, and lost his seat in the 1988 elections.

For many years he chaired the association of Moroccan immigrants in Israel. He died in November 1998, leaving a wife and 4 children. In 2009 a central square in Safed was named after him.