I was a member of the Haifa City Council when I was 23 years old, which made me the youngest city councilman in Israel.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I ran for my first office at 25 against an incumbent city councilman. I took 55% of the vote and became the youngest councilman in the area at the time.
I was about 15, 16 years old when my father first ran for mayor, and that's where I cut my teeth.
I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.
I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.
I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.
My mother at the age of 65 decided she was going to run for mayor. She had never run for public office, and she decided she wanted to try and do some things for the community.
First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran for city council.
I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.
I've been mayor of the city of Jerusalem, which is perhaps, in some ways, more complex and more difficult than a ministerial position.