Yisrael Zinger

Yisrael Zinger ישראל זינגר
5th Mayor of Ramat Gan
Incumbent
Assumed office October 22, 2013
Preceded by	Zvi Bar
Personal details
Born	January 18, 1948 Bucharest, Romania
Religion	Judaism

Yisrael Raul Zinger (Hebrew: ישראל ראול זינגר‎; born December 18, 1948) is an Israeli politician and current mayor of Ramat Gan.

Biography

Zinger was born on 1948 in Bucharest in Romania. He emigrated to Israel with his family in 1962 and has a master's degree in nuclear physics in 1978 at Tel Aviv University. In 1985 he was appointed principal of Blich high school until 2003. Zinger is married and he has three children.

Political career

In 2003 elections, Zinger filed candidacy for mayor of Ramat Gan and was elected to the City Council. In 2008 elections, he ran again for mayor of Ramat Gan.^[1] He was a chairman of the municipal opposition until 2013.

In 2013 elections, For the third time running for mayor of Ramat Gan and won after a struggle to cope with the Carmel Shama mayoral Ramat Gan and was elected mayor with 52.4% of the vote.^[2] Faction has four seats.

December 15, 2014 has been placed for a week under house arrest due to corruption case.^[3] For two weeks he had to interrupt his activity at the city hall.

References

1. "Zinger: I am Sharon's candidate for mayor of Ramat Gan". Haaretz. 29 July 2003. Yisrael Zinger, the former principal of Ramat Gan's Blich high school, announced his candidacy for mayor of that city and claimed the support of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in a press conference Tuesday.
2. "Biggest cities re-elect their mayors". Globes.
3. Ramat Gan mayor Yisrael Zinger suspect in graft affair

External links

• Yisrael Zinger's website (Hebrew)