The first mayor of Alfei Menashe, Shlomo Katan, expressed his condolences on Tuesday over the death of the mayor who succeeded him, Hisdai Eliezer, who passed away on Monday at the age of 57.
“Alfei Menashe lost a very special man,” Katan told Arutz Sheva. “He replaced me after three terms. However, despite our battle for the leadership of the town, we continued to be good friends and we knew how to overcome all our differences.”