Amram Mitzna

Amram Mitzna was born in 1945 in Afula

Mitzna was born on 20 February 1945 in Kibbutz Dovrat to parents who had fled Nazi Germany. The family later moved to the Hadassah Neurim youth village, then to Kiryat Haim and Haifa. He attended the military boarding school in Haifa and graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in 1963.

He earned a degree in geography from the University of Haifa in 1977 and finished the U.S. Army War College course in 1979. In 1989 he completed a program for senior public figures at Harvard University, and in 1990 he received an MA in political science from the University of Haifa.

Mitzna enlisted in 1963 and served mostly in the Armored Corps. He was wounded in the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War. He later commanded the Central Command during the First Intifada and headed the planning branch until he retired in 1993.

In 1993 he was elected mayor of Haifa for Labor and was re-elected in 1998. He won the Labor leadership in 2002 and led the party in the 2003 election, in which it won 19 seats. He resigned as leader soon after.

In 2005 he left the Knesset to head the appointed committee of Yeruham. In 2012 he joined Hatnuah and entered the Knesset in 2013. In 2014 he announced his retirement from politics.