Moses Elisaf

Moisis Elisaf (; 17 July 1954 – 17 February 2023) was a Greek physician, academic, and politician. He served as mayor of Ioannina from September 2019 until his death in February 2023. He was Greece's first Jewish mayor.

Early life Elisaf was born in Ioannina on 17 July 1954, the son of Romaniote Jews and Holocaust survivors who had escaped the Nazi roundup which saw all but 9% of Ioannina's Jewish population deported by Nazi German troops to the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the liberation of Greece in 1944, survivors suffered discrimination for their involvement in communist resistance groups such as the Greek People's Liberation Army. Elisaf graduated from the University of Athens in 1979.

Career Elisaf was a physician and professor of internal medicine at Ioannina Medical School. He was the director of the school's Lipids, Atherosclerosis, Obesity, and Diabetes Department. Between 1993 and 1994, he worked at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. Several of his relatives live in Israel. He said that he was a centrist who aimed to build consensus around policies for the city's development, such as improving infrastructure and public services.