Mordechai Olmert (Hebrew: מרדכי אולמרט; 16 January 1908 – 30 March 1998) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Herut between 1955 and 1961.
[1] Born in Buguruslan in the Russian Empire, Olmert's family moved to Harbin in China in 1919.
Between 1931 and 1933 he taught Russian at a Chinese high school, before making aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1933.
He returned to Israel to head Herut's settlement department, where he remained until 1953.
A member of the party's central committee, he was elected to the Knesset on its list in 1955, and was re-elected in 1959.