Once again, Tel Aviv municipality throws budget transparency out the window
With city council set to vote on a $1.3 billion draft budget next week, the actual numbers have not yet been made public, while the mayor has banned residents from council meetings.
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Featured Articles
Tel Aviv gets a new master plan
The city's new blueprint will not solve its major problems, but it will bring new hi-rises and business districts.
Tel Aviv planner-activists score crucial victory
Community groups win a number of key changes to the city's new urban master plan.
Bike lane backlash
Insensitive planning and a lack of transparency have generated significant opposition to plans for bike lanes in Tel Aviv.
Israeli tabloid journalism, a style guide Or: How to win friends and serve the powerful by feeding free sludge to the masses.
How to handle a popular upheaval The Middle East’s dictators have already written their playbook, but what about the region’s quasi-democracies?
Bibi, urban planner in chief Netanyahu is incapable of meeting tent protesters’ demands because he is wedded to a rigid, anti-urban ideology.
Israel’s revolt against neoliberalism Policies which were considered hopelessly radical just a few weeks ago are now seen as not nearly radical enough.
Talking about a revolution?A tent camp in the middle of Tel Aviv is Israel’s answer to the ‘Arab Spring.’
