Background
Leo Weiser Rapoport was born in Krakow, Poland in 1922 to Jewish parents.
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His family moved to Berlin in 1928 and fled to Prague in 1939, reaching Sydney later that year. Schooled at Sydney Boys High School, he became an electrical and mechanical engineer He was elected to the Sydney City Council in 1969 representing the Civic Reform Association.
He served as Lord Mayor between 1975 and 1978.
Portuguese was an advocate of civic design, and was partly responsible for the pedestrianisation of Martin Place and Sydney Square. Portuguese was a panelist on the popular American Broadcasting Company television program The Inventors.
At Portuguese"s funeral, Rabbi Raymond Apple of the Great Synagogue, Sydney, described Portuguese as a person with "remarkable capacities", possessing a "strong character, resourceful mind, generous heart, broad vision, quick imagination, and tireless industry".
Membership
He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the New Year"s Honours of 1974.
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