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Government Approves: More Power Will Be Transferred to Local Government Israel today

2021-11-21T14:04:11.933Z


The ministers approved the proposal of Prime Minister Bennett and Interior Minister Shaked to strengthen local authorities • Shaked: "This is a revolution in the relationship between local government and the central government"


As reported in "Israel Today": The

government today (Sunday) approved the proposal of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, to decentralize powers from the government to local authorities and direct the establishment of a special inter-ministerial team and internal staff in the Interior Ministry, which will formulate recommendations. Central government relations with local authorities.

The State of Israel is one of the most centralized countries among the OECD countries.

The state has only two levels of government - central and local, with no regional level in the middle, and as a result over the years the government has held most of the powers influencing the activities of local government.

In the 2018 OECD publication, Israel is associated with the group of countries with the lowest levels of decentralization, both in terms of expenditure and tax revenue.

The publication in "Israel Today",

High centralization of the central government leads to the non-realization of the potential of local economic growth, to a possible damage to democracy in the local government and to the difficulty of promoting a place-based policy.

In light of the importance of strengthening local authorities and improving the service they provide to residents, it was decided to concentrate government efforts on decentralization, out of a desire to produce a meaningful professional process with results in the near term, and joint government dialogue with local government in one language and uniform and clear parameters.

"This is an important and significant day for the Ministry of the Interior and local authorities," said Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked.

"Already on the day I took office I declared that local government is a government for everything and not an executive contractor of the central government, and I will do everything to bring about a broad and graded decentralization of powers. I welcome the government's decision to revolutionize local government relations ".

Source: israelhayom

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