Yeruham Zeisel (1909–1987) was the mayor of Haifa from 1975 to 1978. Yeruham Zeisel was born in 1909 in Tarnov, Galicia, (then Austria-Hungary, today Poland). Zeisel was raised in a Zionist home, and already in his youth was a member of Hashomer Hatzair and a counselor for a group of youths in the "Pioneer" movement. In 1932 he made Aliyah and joined kibbutz Ein HaMifratz. He also worked as a porter in the , and worked in the digging of fish pools in the area of the swamps of the Ne'eman Valley.