Eliezer Ronen

Eliezer Ronen was born in 1931 in Mexico City

Ronen was born Eliezer Rosenfeld in Mexico City. He attended a local Jewish school and a French school there. He led the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Mexico and sat on the boards of several Zionist and Jewish community bodies.

In 1952 he moved to Israel and joined Kibbutz Megiddo. He studied economics, political science and business administration at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He worked in the research department of the Bank of Israel and later at the Tahal company.

He headed the Economic Planning Authority and sat on the Jerusalem City Council from 1966 to 1972. He founded the Carta company for developing central Jerusalem and chaired its board until 1981. As a member of the Knesset he sat on the Finance Committee and the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee.

He earned a law degree and practiced as a lawyer from 1981 to 2005, in real estate, planning and company law. He was elected chairman of Mapam in 1993 and left the party in 1995. He received a doctorate in 2012 and died on 17 March 2016.