Schlomo Lahat

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Schlomo Lahat (2009)

Schlomo "Tschitsch" Lahat (born November 9, 1927 in Berlin as Salo Lindner ; † October 1, 2014 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa ) was an Israeli officer, most recently major general ( Aluf ), and mayor of Tel Aviv for four consecutive terms.

Life

The family emigrated to the League of Nations mandate for Palestine in 1933, the year the National Socialists seized power , after Schlomo's father, a textile manufacturer, slapped a member of the NSDAP . Schlomo was six years old at the time. He grew up in Rechovot in a German atmosphere. As an eight-year-old in Rechovot, he once drove his fellow combatants into a tug-of-war with the exclamation "pull!" at what his friends «Tschietsch צ'יץ '“Did, his future nickname. He later told the anecdote that his mother only knew two words in Ivrit : “ Shalom !” As a greeting and shalom as a farewell.

At the age of 17 Lahat went to the Hagana and later to the Israel Defense Forces (Zaha "l), where he served 30 years and was most recently major general ( Aluf ).

Without any political experience, he founded the Likkud party alliance with others and ran for Tel Aviv mayor eight months after leaving the army. For 19 years, from 1974 to 1993, he was mayor of the metropolis. He supported the preservation of the White City with buildings in the style of the Bauhaus , expanded the beach promenade, which is now named after him (טיילת שלמה להט, Ṭayelet Schlomoh Lahaṭ), invented the slogan “City without a break”, but also had the old opera house demolished, which was the first meeting place of the Knesset . Tel Aviv was a deserted city when he took office on Friday evening, at the beginning of the Sabbath ; he allowed cinemas to open. He sponsored the Israeli Opera and the city's cinematheque .

Lahat suffered from Alzheimer's disease in the last years of his life . He died in October 2014, leaving behind his wife Ziva, b. Pritzker, with whom he was married for 59 years, two children and several grandchildren.

Web links

Commons : Schlomo Lahat  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henryk M. Broder: More life on the Sabbath. zeit.de, February 21, 1986, accessed October 1, 2014
  2. ^ Gil Yaron: Tel Aviv's mayor was a Berliner. welt.de, October 1, 2014, accessed October 1, 2014
  3. Greer Fay Cashman: Legendary Tel Aviv mayor Shlomo Lahat dead at 86.jpost.com.com, October 1, 2014, accessed October 1, 2014