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Five and a half years after his sweeping victory and after a term that lasted only a little over a year, Ron Kobi will try (today) to win again in the Tiberias mayoral elections.
Four candidates are competing for the position and it seems that the main struggle is between Kobi and Yossi Neve.
Nevea was previously the CEO of the Municipality of Tiberias and later he was the CEO of the Rabbi Meir Baal Hans institutions, whose center is the grave marker of Baal Hans in Tiberias.
Yossi Nevea/Official website, Reuven Kapuchinsky
It originated secularly, but is supported by the ultra-orthodox public in the city.
This support does not stem only from his previous position, but also from the fact that he is the main opponent of Kobi, who is, to say the least, not popular with the ultra-Orthodox.
The religious and ultra-Orthodox lists do not place a candidate for mayor and declare their support for Neve.
The most prominent of them is a list that represents Rabbi Dov Kook, who is considered a religious authority in the city for a wide public.
The Likud list also calls on its voters to support Neva after Yossi Ben David, former mayor who was the Likud candidate, withdrew his candidacy and transferred his support to Neva.
Kobi is trying with considerable success to focus the elections around his claim of the city's gentrification, which is manifested in the construction of neighborhoods for the ultra-orthodox public and the demographic change the city is undergoing.
The high housing prices in the ultra-Orthodox cities and neighborhoods in the center of the country, Jerusalem and its surroundings caused the ultra-Orthodox population to move to the periphery.
Tiberias became an attractive option for that public.
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Kobi points to the decline of tourism and business and secular schools that are emptying of students and being handed over to ultra-orthodox education.
According to him, these are the results of a deliberate policy by the Shas leader, Aryeh Deri, to change the face of the city. "It's either me or Aryeh Deri," he repeatedly says at every opportunity.
Aviv Yitzhak in Gaza/courtesy of the photographers
Two other contestants are Aviv Yitzhak and Dodik Shetrit.
For Yitzchak, 28 years old, this is his first political baptism of fire.
During the war in Gaza, he served as a police officer in the Givati Brigade and barely had time to hold an election campaign. Sheetrit is an engineer and industrialist and was a member of the city council plenum.
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