Michael Reisser

Michael Reisser was born in 1946 in Tel Aviv

Michael "Mikha" Reisser was born in Tel Aviv on 26 April 1946 and grew up in the Mahlul neighborhood. His family held the outlook of the Irgun and the Herut movement. He attended the A.D. Gordon school and then the Shalva gymnasium.

He studied sociology and labor studies at Tel Aviv University. In 1970 he became chairman of the university's student union. From 1971 to 1977 he chaired the secretariat of the Herut young guard.

In 1978 he became a consultant to the Minister of Immigrant Absorption and Minister of Housing, and later served as deputy director of the Housing Ministry. From 1979 to 1981 he directed the Israel Builders Association and from 1979 to 1980 headed Herut's Organization Department. He also chaired the board of HaYekev and sat on the board of the ATA textile company.

He was elected to the Knesset on the Likud list in 1981 and reelected in 1984. He chaired the House Committee and sat on the Education, Culture and Sports Committee. He was part of the camp of David Levy within Likud.

On 26 October 1988 he was badly injured in a car crash on the way to Jerusalem, in a collision with a car driven by Dalia Itzik. He died the next day, and David Mor took his Knesset seat. He was married with a son and twin daughters, and a stadium in Beersheba, a school in Rishon LeZion and streets in Lod and Ramla bear his name.