Municipal election campaign heats up with offensive posters against Yaakov Turner.
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Fake death notices announcing the passing of Beersheba's Mayor Yaakov Turner were put up in several spots around the city Monday, a day before the municipal elections. City inspectors have removed the offensive posters.
Turner's campaign pointed a finger at one of the other candidates running against the mayor, who himself reacted somewhat sarcastically, saying the rumors of his death were "premature".
Turner has been the mayor of Beersheba since 1998. A former senior officer in the Israeli Air Force, he retired in 1985 as a Brigadier-General.
During the Yom Kippur War, he was an F-4 Phantom II pilot, and in the Six Day War and the War of Attrition, he was the commander of an air combat squadron.
In 1985, Turner founded the IAF Museum at Hatzerim airbase near Beersheba.
After his military service, he was enlisted into the Israel Police, where he became general commissioner (commander of the police) in 1990, a position which he held till 1993.
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