The local government center will begin an indefinite strike on Monday, following the dispute with the coalition and the government over the promotion of the establishment of a "property tax fund." Local authorities strongly oppose the law, warning that residents will not pay municipal taxes.
List of municipalities on strike May 14, 2023 (Photo: Walla! Editorial Board, Walla Studio!)
The authorities where the strike will take place
- Tel Aviv
- Haifa
- Rishon Lezion
- Ashdod
- Netanya
- Sheva
- Holon
- Ramat Gan
- Ramla
- Kfar Saba
- Herzliya
- Hod Hasharon
- Ra'anana
- Giv'atayim
- Intelligence
- Ramat Hasharon
- Jezeral Valley
- Jordan Valley
- Givat Shmuel
- Tiberias
- Shoham
- Emek Hefer
- Brenner Regional Council
- Lower Galilee Regional Council
- Southern Sharon Regional Council
- Lower Galilee Regional Council
- Gezer Regional Council
- Kochav Yair
- Or Yehuda
- Yehud
- Kiryat Ekron
- In Petah Tikva, Hadera and Yavneh, the municipal systems will be shut down, there will be no reception in the municipality and there will be no telephone answering, but the education system will continue to operate as usual.
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Services that will be shut down starting tomorrow
- Gardens
- Elementary schools
- Reception and telephone answering services
- Cleaning services in localities
- Planning and Building Committees
Chairman of the Local Government Center, Haim Bibas (Photo: Knesset Spokesperson, Danny Shem Tov)
The lie behind the initiative
- The "Arnona Fund" bill is ostensibly supposed to correct a distortion, according to which residential property taxes are relatively low, which leads mayors to build less for residential purposes and invest more in businesses and industrial zones, where municipal taxes are significantly higher.
- The coalition argues that the fund will make residential construction more worthwhile, and for this purpose each authority will transfer to the fund 10%-49% of its annual business property tax profit. The coalition also claims that the money collected will be distributed back to all the authorities, but in practice there is no evidence for this and the government will be able to do with the money as it pleases.
Who will the law help? Smotrich (Photo: Reuven Castro)
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Demonstrations against the Arnona Fund will be held throughout the country: "They are trying to rob the public purse"
- The leaders of the "resistance to the dictatorship" announced that starting at 19 p.m., demonstrations would be held in front of municipal buildings throughout the country to protest the government's attempt to "rob the public purse and harm the education, welfare and culture of local authorities and strong cities for the benefit of sectoral funds."
- "The looting government is trying to eliminate everything that is good in the State of Israel. Instead of investing in citizens, they are distributing NIS 13.3 billion to the ultra-Orthodox and Smotrich's friends, and looting the coffers of the municipalities," one of the protest leaders said. "This is a robbery in broad daylight of taxpayers, who bear the burden and of the liberal public. The looting of the coffers and the weakening of the local government also happened in Orban's Hungary, and tonight we will go out and tell the government – enough is enough."
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