Einat Kalisch-Rotem

Einat Kalisch-Rotem (Hebrew: עינת קליש-רותם; born 3 September 1970) is an Israeli urban planner and politician who served as mayor of Haifa from 2018 to 2024.

[3] In the year 2012, Kalisch established the "Metvah Eroni" firm for planning cities and regions, together with architect Yael Sion-Geist.

[2] In 2004, she hosted and produced several programs of "House Stories - The Development of Architecture in Tel Aviv", for the Teva HaHavid channel.

In 2007, she won a prize from the Ministry of Environmental Protection's Green Building competition's "restoration of existing textures and the built environment" category.

In the year 2010, Kalisch won the prize in the "Reusing the water towers" category in the competition held by the Council for Conservation of Heritage Sites in Israel and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.

In the following year, she led, together with Gila Zamir and Nitzan Kloch, a campaign to find a solution for the route of the railways in Haifa to allow a greater opening of the sea for the city.

[13] In March 2019, after a struggle with other institutions in Haifa, an agreement with the Ministry of Transportation was reached to allow for the airport's runway to be lengthened, but not to the length that Kalisch campaigned for.

[14] During her first year in office, she continued to hold conferences intended for public participation in various issues such as clearing and construction in the neighborhoods of Kiryat Eliezer and Kiryat Haim Mizrahit as well as on the issues of feeding cats and establishing a "pig patrol" in order to reduce the damage caused by wild pigs.

and the "2030 Administration" was established, with the aim of formulating a strategy for the renewal of the city of Haifa for the coming years on a variety of issues.