Tal Ohana is the mayor of Yeruham, Israel.
Tal Ohana was elected mayor of Yeruham in 2018. She is the first woman to serve in this position in the town's history. [1] [2] [3]
Yeruham is a town in the Southern District of Israel, in the Negev desert. It covers 38,584 dunams (~38.6 km²), and had a population of 10,294 in 2019. It is named after the Biblical Jeroham.
Beitar Jerusalem Football Club, commonly known as Beitar Jerusalem or simply as Beitar, is an Israeli professional football club based in the city of Jerusalem, that plays in the Israeli Premier League, the top tier in Israeli football. The club has traditionally worn kit colours of yellow and black. The team has played its home matches in Teddy Stadium. The stadium is the largest stadium in Israel with a capacity of 34,000.
Amram Mitzna is an Israeli politician and former general in the IDF. He is a former mayor of Haifa (1993–2003) and Yeruham (2005–2010) and led the Labor Party from 2002 to 2003. In 2012 he joined Hatnuah.
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The Israel women's national football team represents Israel in international women's football. The Israel women's national football team was established in 1997. Women's Football in Israel was developed as an upside down pyramid by first opening the national team and then after 2 years opening the first women's football league in Israel. Women's Football in Israel is struggling to develop because it is lacking investment.
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Alon Tal is a current member of the Knesset for Blue and White. He is a leading Israeli environmental activist and academic; founder of the Israel Union for Environmental Defense and the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies; and co-founder of Ecopeace: Friends of the Earth–Middle East, This Is My Earth, the Israel Forum for Demography, Environment and Society, Aytzim: Ecological Judaism, and the Green Movement. Tal was appointed chair of the department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University in 2017.
Meir Cohen is an Israeli politician. A former mayor of Dimona, Cohen is currently a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid. He served as Minister of Welfare and Social Services from 2013 until 2014.
Hapoel Yeruham is an Israeli football club based in Yeruham. The club is currently in Liga Bet Sout B division.
Tal Gilboa is an Israeli animal liberation and vegan activist. In 2013, she founded the Israeli Animal Liberation Front, renamed ‘Total Liberation’ in 2018. Gilboa won HaAh HaGadol 6, the sixth season of the Israeli version of the reality show Big Brother.
Amir Ohana is an Israeli lawyer, former Shin Bet official and politician who currently serves a member of the Knesset for Likud. He previously held the posts of Minister of Justice and Minister of Public Security. He was the first openly gay right-wing member of the Knesset and the first openly gay man from Likud to serve in the Knesset. He is also the first openly gay person to be appointed as a minister in the Israeli government in 2019.
Michael Ohana is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as a forward and as an attacking midfielder for Beitar Jerusalem and the Israel national team.
Yisrael Baruch Mordechai "Motty" Steinmetz is a prominent Hasidic singer.
Esther Ohana was an Israeli woman who was killed by a rock thrown by a Palestinian Arab through the window of the vehicle in which she was riding on 29 January 1983, hitting her directly in the head. Ohana never regained consciousness and died two weeks later in hospital.
Michael Mordecai Biton is an Israeli politician. He formerly served as Minister of Strategic Affairs and as minister for civic issues within the Ministry of Defense. He was previously mayor of Yeruham between 2010 and 2018.
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The 2018 Haifa mayoral election was held on 30 October, 2018 to elect the mayor of Haifa. It saw the election of Einat Kalisch-Rotem, who unseated incumbent mayor Yona Yahav. Kalisch-Rotem would become the first female mayor of Haifa, making Haifa the largest city in Israel, and first major Israeli city, to ever have a female mayor.
Ohana will be Yeruham's first female mayor.