Yona Yahav

Yona Yahav (Hebrew: יונה יהב; born 19 June 1944) is an Israeli lawyer and politician currently serving as the mayor of Haifa since 2024.

Yahav previously served as Mayor from 2003 and, 2018, when he lost re-election Einat Kalisch-Rotem.

During his national service he reached the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Military Police Corps of the IDF.

He was an advisor to Minister of Transport Gad Yaacobi and the spokesman of Teddy Kollek, mayor of Jerusalem.

In 1996 he was elected to the Knesset on the Labor Party list, and served as the chairman of the subcommittee for banking.