Haim Haberfeld

Haim Haberfeld (6 September 1931 – 29 January 2002) was an Israeli trade union leader and the chairman of the Israel Football Association.

Haberfeld studied at the Ben Shemen Youth Village and served in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War in the Artillery Corps.

In 1992, when Yisrael Kessar was appointed Minister of Transportation, he replaced him as the Histadrut Secretary General, winning internal elections in the Israeli Labor Party against Amir Peretz.

[2] During Haberfeld's leadership, the financial situation of the Histadrut and Kupat Holim Clalit was on the brink of bankruptcy, after it accumulated huge deficits.

[2] Supporters of Haberfeld were impressed by his modest lifestyle, however, when Haberfeld and Kessar's finance person, Artur Yisraelovitch, was convicted of various offenses, Judge Zecharia Caspi emphasized in his decision that the Histadrut at the time was "corrupt and corrupting".