Kollek continued to be active in retirement, maintaining a five-day work week into his nineties, even as he became increasingly infirm.
He and his wife lived in their walk-up Rehavia apartment until the mid-1990s, when they moved to Hod Yerushalayim, a retirement home in the Kiryat HaYovel neighborhood.

Kollek died on 2 January 2007.
He is buried at the Mount Herzl national cemetery, Jerusalem.
Kollek continued to be active in retirement, maintaining a five-day work week into his nineties, even as he became increasingly infirm. He and his wife lived in their walk-up Rehavia apartment until the mid-1990s, when they moved to Hod Yerushalayim, a retirement home in the Kiryat HaYovel neighborhood.
Kollek died on 2 January 2007. He is buried at the Mount Herzl national cemetery, Jerusalem.
Teddy Kollek