Uri Lupolianski 

Uri Lupolianski
Uri Lupolianski

Uri Lupolianski, mayor of Jerusalem
Mayor of Jerusalem
In office
2003 – 2008
Preceded by Ehud Olmert
Succeeded by Nir Barkat
Born 1951
Haifa
Political party Degel Hatorah

Uri Lupolianski (Hebrew: אורי לופוליאנסקי) was elected mayor of Jerusalem on June 6, 2003, after serving on the Jerusalem City Council from 1989. Lupolianski was Deputy Mayor, chairperson of the Planning and Building Committee and responsible for the Family Services and Community portfolio. He is currently a member of the National Building and Planning Committee and the Committee for the Development of Holy Places.

Born in Haifa, Israel in 1951, Lupolianski studied at the Yavne School in Haifa and then attended Yeshivat Hanegev. He served in the Israel Defense Forces as a paramedic and worked as a teacher at a religious school in Jerusalem.

In 1976, Lupolianski founded the Yad Sarah organization to help the elderly and disabled. This has earned him the President's Volunteer Prize; the Knesset Speaker's Award, the Kaplan Prize for Efficiency, and in 2004, the Israel Prize.

To attract students to Jerusalem's institutions of higher education, Lupolianski inaugurated the "Lupolianski Package" which offers special tuition and housing subsidies to university students renting apartments in the city center. Hi-tech workers who choose to live and work in Jerusalem are also eligible for a monthly grant to cover part of their living expenses.1

Lupolianski is married to Michal Lupolianski (Breuer) the granddaughter of Rabbi Isaac Breuer. The couple has 12 children and 30 grandchildren.

Party and political relations

Lupolianski's party is Degel Hatorah which is now running to elections together with Agudat Israel in a united party called United Torah Judaism.

In the 2003 municipal election Lupolianski ran for mayor under the United Torah Judaism ticket. This was part of a rotation deal which states that in the coming election the ticket will nominate a candidate from Agudat Israel.

Lupolianski has been accused of preferring Jews over Arabs, and also of basing municipal decisions on his religious views.2

In recent years, Lupolianski has clashed with the Israeli Gay and Lesbian community for trying to stop or change the venue of their annual Gay pride parade in Jerusalem.3 4 5

References

  1. ^ The best medicine for Jerusalem - Haaretz - Israel News
  2. ^ Steven Erlanger (July 16, 2005). "An Ultra-Orthodox Mayor in an Unorthodox City". 
  3. ^ Neta Sela (May 4, 2006). "J'lem mayor: Gay parade a provocation". 
  4. ^ Shani Mizrachi (June 16, 2005). "Gays slam Jerusalem mayor". 
  5. ^ Steven Erlanger (July 16, 2005). "An Ultra-Orthodox Mayor in an Unorthodox City". 
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Mayors of Jerusalem
Ottoman Empire (1517–1917)
Abdelrahman al-Dajani (1863–82) • Salim al-Husayni (1882–97) • Yousef al-Khalidi (1899–1907) • Faidi al-Alami (1907–09) • Hussein al-Husayni (1909–17)
British Mandate of Palestine (1917–48)
Aref al-Dajani (1917–18) • Musa al-Husayni (1918–20) • Raghib Nashashibi (1920–34) • Hussein al-Khalidi (1934–37) • Daniel Auster (1937–38) • Mustafa al-Khalidi (1938–44) • Daniel Auster (1944–45)
West Jerusalem, Israel (1949–67)
Daniel Auster (1949–50) • Zalman Shragai (1951–52) • Yitzhak Kariv (1952–55) • Gershon Agron (1955–59) • Mordechai Ish-Shalom (1959–65) • Teddy Kollek (1965–67)
East Jerusalem, Jordan (1949–67)
Anwar al-Khatib (1948–50) • Aref al-Aref (1950–51) • Hannah Atallah (1951–52) • Omar Wa'ari (1952–55) • Ruhi al-Khatib (1957–67) • Amir al-Majaj (1967–99) (titular)
Israel (1967–)
Teddy Kollek (1967–93) • Ehud Olmert (1993–2003) • Uri Lupoliansky (2003–08) • Nir Barkat (2008–)
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