Einat Kalisch-Rotem

Einat Kalisch-Rotem was born in 1970 in Haifa

Kalisch-Rotem was born in Haifa in 1970 and grew up there. Her father, Avraham, was a researcher and lecturer at the Technion. She attended a high school in Haifa and was active in its student council.

In the army she served in the Air Force. She earned a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Technion in 1995 and a master's degree there in 2001. In 2007 she completed a PhD at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

She taught at Tel Aviv University and the Technion from 1996 to 2012. In 2012 she founded a city and regional planning firm with architect Yael Sion-Geist. The firm prepared outline plans for Majdal Shams, Yarka and Kibbutz Meirav.

She ran for mayor of Haifa in 2013 and became a city council member. In March 2018 a court convicted her of violating the Planning and Construction Law over a house in Zichron Yaakov and fined her 30,000 ILS. After the High Court of Justice allowed her to run, she defeated Yona Yahav in the 2018 election.

As mayor she worked on extending the Haifa airport runway and on public participation in city planning. In July 2021 the city council passed a resolution calling on her to resign. In the 2024 election she received 4.5% of the vote and left office.