| An agreement was signed for formation of the coalition in the Eilat Municipality's twelfth serving City Council. The parties constituting the coalition are the mayor's Kivun Hadash with 4 seats, Shas with 2 seats, Yahm with 2 seats, and Eilat Beitenu with 2 seats.
City Council member Eli Lankri (Kivun Hadash) will continue to serve as the deputy and substitute mayor and will continue to handle all of the city of Eilat's and the Eilat Municipality's financial and economic matters, including the economic branches based on the Municipality.
City council members Iftach Mizrachi (Shas), Yehuda Mordi (Yahm), and Oleg Chernomoritz (Eilat Beitenu) will serve as deputy mayors in rotation (2 deputies in title, one of them receiving pay, in addition to the deputy and substitute mayor who is paid).
These council members' areas of responsibility, whether or not they are serving as deputies, are: Iftzch Mizrachi - engineering; Yehuda Mordi - municipal services; and Oleg Chernomoritz - sports and absorption.
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This is only the first stage of putting together the coalition, says mayor Meir Itzhak Halevi, adding that negotiations with city council member Rafi Hochman and members of his party are in final stages and that there are understandings on most of the matters, and areas of responsibility and authorisations are being examined in a good spirit.
"The intent is to expand the coalition as greatly as possible, in order to allow all of the city council members to be partners in the public work for which we were elected," the mayor says, adding, "Alongside the coalition agreements, a number of principles were set out, one of them separation between the political part and the professional part, adhering to the mayor's policy, and full partnership in the doing." Out of lessons learned in the past, the mayor puts an emphasis on maximum discussion and cooperation that is entirely for the benefit of the Eilati residents.
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