Mayor of Ioanniton dies at 68 Moses Elisaf. His death is a huge loss for the city where he has served as a doctor, university professor, and mayor since 2019 without completing his term.

Moses Elisaf was born in 1954 in Ioannina, his parents were Holocaust survivors. He studied medicine at the University of Athens, then chose the specialty of pathology while he worked as a professor of pathology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Ioannina.

In addition, he has served as Director of the 2nd Department of Pathology of the Ioannina University General Hospital, Director of the Department of Pathology of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ioannina and Deputy Director for Academic Affairs of the University Hospital of Ioannina.

Moses Elisaf was president of the Jewish community of Ioannina and a member of the board of directors of the Central Jewish Council of Greece.

Elected mayor of Ioannina in the 2019 municipal elections, the event marked the first Jewish mayoral election in Greece.

In the election campaign in the 161 constituencies of the municipality of Ioannito, the share of the faction of Moses Elisaf reached 50.33%, while the share of the current mayor, Thomas Begi, reached 49.67%.

Regarding his self-government career before being elected mayor, he was a municipal councilor several times and was president of the non-profit enterprise for culture, environment, youth and sports of the municipality of Ioannito (2011-2014) together with Philippa Filios. like a mayor.

After being sworn in as mayor, Mr. Elisaf set in motion his plan of extraversion to open windows to the world for a city like Ioannina, with a strong flavor of another, bygone, cosmopolitan era and endowed with natural beauties.

Moses Elisaf stated in 2020 in “K” that he is also proud of the success story of refugees in the city of Ioannina. “There are 3,000 refugees within the boundaries of the municipality. 1,300 people live in an open building, some in hotels, and the remaining 1,000 or so in apartments. All these years, the symbiosis of the local community with the refugees proceeded relatively smoothly. They go to schools, the integration of students is going smoothly, and if you remove mostly minor problems between them, as well as minor offenses near the camp, then there was no tension with the locals.”