Moshe Flimann

Moshe Flimann was born in 1905 in Ivano-Frankivsk

Flimann was born in 1905 in Stanyslaviv, now Ivano-Frankivsk, in Galicia. He belonged to a Zionist youth movement and joined the Pioneer movement. Russian authorities jailed him for his Zionist activity, then released him.

After high school he studied electrical engineering in Moscow. In 1929 he was arrested for his Zionist activity and sent to Siberia for 3 years. In 1930 his sentence was shortened, and he was expelled from the Soviet Union and moved to Palestine.

He worked in a factory in Jaffa, as an electrician, and briefly as a physics and math teacher in Tel Aviv. In 1932 he joined the Israel Electric Corporation. In 1957 he became manager of the national grid department and a workers' representative on the board.

Living in Kiryat Haim, he served on its council and later on the Haifa city council. He became deputy mayor and, in 1959, a paid deputy. After Abba Hushi died in 1969, the council chose him as mayor, and he was elected again that October.

During his term the National Maritime Museum in Haifa was founded. He fell ill in 1972 and died in 1973. A geriatric hospital, a school and a road in Haifa bear his name.