Yeruham Zeisel

Yeruham Zeisel was born in 1909 in Austria–Hungary

Yeruham Zeisel was born in 1909 in Tarnów, Galicia, then part of Austria-Hungary. He grew up in a Zionist home. As a young man he belonged to Hashomer Hatzair and led youth groups in the Pioneer movement.

In 1932 he immigrated to the Land of Israel and joined kibbutz Ein HaMifratz. He worked as a porter at the Haifa port and dug fish ponds in the Na'aman swamp area. In 1933 he moved to Haifa and became an electrician at the Israel Electric Corporation.

He was a member of the Haganah and served as secretary of the metalworkers' union. In 1936 he moved to Kiryat Haim.

He was elected to the Haifa city council in 1961 and became deputy mayor in 1969. During the illness of mayor Moshe Flimann he acted as mayor, and he stayed in office after Flimann died until Yosef Almogi was elected in 1974. After Almogi left in 1975, Zeisel was elected mayor and served until 1978.

During his term, work began on the Bat Galim promenade, and the Haifa city archive was founded in 1977. In 1979 he became head of the Kiryat Haim sub-council and held the post until his death in 1987. A square and a street in Haifa bear his name.