Shlomo Zalman Shragai (Hebrew: זלמן שרגאי, 1899–1995) was an Israeli politician and West Jerusalem's first elected mayor after it came under Israeli control following the 1948 Palestine War.
Shlomo Zalman Shragai was born into a Polish Orthodox Jewish family in Gorzkowice in 1899.
He then became active in the religious Zionist movement and settled in Palestine in 1924,[1] already playing an important political role before Israel's founding in 1948.
In 1950, Shragai was elected mayor of West Jerusalem, a position he held for two years.
He served as honorary world president of Hapoel HaMizrachi movement.