Mordechai Virshubski

Mordechai Virshubski was born in 1930 in Leipzig

Virshubski was born in Leipzig, Germany, in 1930 to parents with Polish citizenship. He was born with paralysis in his leg and right hand. He moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1939.

He went to the Herzliya Hebrew High School in Tel Aviv and studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received a master's degree in law in 1955.

From 1955 to 1966 he was legal advisor to the water authority and worked on water law, also helping Peru and, in 1971, Nicaragua with water legislation. From 1966 to 1977 he was legal advisor to the Tel Aviv municipality. He helped found Shinui in 1974.

He entered the Knesset in 1977 and served four terms, moving to Ratz in 1987. He worked to repeal the ban on sexual relations defined as unnatural, initiated a law ending censorship of plays that passed in 1989, and initiated the 1992 public tenders law. He ran for mayor of Tel Aviv in 1989 and 1993.

Later he sat on the Tel Aviv city council for Ratz and then the Greens, and chaired an umbrella group of disability organizations. He was married to Viola and had two sons. He died at home in 2012.