A transformation at the top of the table: this is the freest city in Israel for 2022

by time news

Transformation: Hod Hasharon It came in first place in the index conducted by the “Free Israel” movement after registering a big jump in a number of parameters – including public transportation on weekends, civil burials and municipal services for well-known couples.

This is only the city’s second year in the index, as it is now defined as the free city in Israel with a score of 80%. The things that brought the city to the first place are, among other things, joining the project “Pleasant on the weekend” that allows public transportation on Shabbat, the start of civil burials in the city cemetery and the establishment of a city couples registry that allows couples known to the public to receive city services as a couple.

Givatayim and Tel Aviv, who came in first and second place respectively last year, came in second place. Both cities received a score of 75% in the freedom index. In the last year, Tel Aviv withdrew from the municipal procedure that prohibits segregated events, but at the same time improved its procedures in schools, which do not allow religious associations to enter.

Givatayim continues to excel in operating public transportation on Shabbat, supporting the LGBT community and registering civil marriages in the municipality. However, the municipality lost the score that brought it to first place last year – since the budget it allocates to religion increased slightly.

Following the ranking of cities, you can find Kfar Saba with a score of 69%, Rishon Lezion with a score of 68%, Holon with a score of 63%, Eilat with a score of 55%, Haifa with 52%, Rennah with 50%, Ashdod and Akko with 43%. , Beersheba with 38%, Netanya with 37%, Petah Tikva with 33%, Hadera with 31%, Lud and Nahariya with 30%, Bat Yam with 29%, Ashkelon with 28%, Rosh Hein with 24%, Jerusalem with 22% , Dimona with 21%, Rehovot with 20% and Beit Shemesh and Urmala with 15%.

The differences in scores continue to be sharp, with six cities crossing 70% compared to Modi’in Illit, Bnei Brak and Bitar Illit which continue to lock the index with a degree of freedom of 5% or less.

The CEO of Free Israel, Uri Kidar, said that “this is the fifth year in which we issue the urban freedom index, and besides the significant increase in the efforts of the municipalities to improve the field of religion and the state in their sector, the 25th Knesset brings with it a real danger of deterioration in all the areas we measure. I have no shadow of a doubt that when the members of the emerging government speak out on matters of religion and state and express extreme and dark positions that have their place in the Middle Ages, they mean it.”

According to him, “The mayors have a fundamental role in the containment efforts that are approaching us, but they are not alone in the campaign. The Israeli public will stand on its hind legs.”

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