{"id":11547,"date":"2022-04-08T05:59:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T03:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesmartcityjournal.cibeles.net\/sin-categoria\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities\/"},"modified":"2022-04-07T15:52:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T13:52:37","slug":"strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/news\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities","title":{"rendered":"Strengthening local leadership in Israel at a critical time for cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a result, the pandemic changed many perceptions of the role local leaders can play in addressing the nation\u2019s toughest challenges<\/p>\n

This article is from <\/em>Bloomberg Cities<\/em><\/a>, which is run by Bloomberg Philanthropies\u2019 Government Innovation program. Sign up for their free weekly newsletter <\/em>here<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Ever since COVID-19 first took its grip on the globe, many of the world\u2019s leaders have turned to Israel for guidance. That\u2019s because the country\u2014led in many cases by city-driven innovations\u2014has been on the cutting edge of recovery from the start. <\/p>\n

The pandemic was a watershed moment for a highly centralized country, where mayors have historically followed the national government\u2019s lead. Their bold actions\u2014whether building contract-tracing systems from scratch<\/a>, setting up networks of young people to check on isolated seniors, or creating vaccination campaigns among hesitant communities<\/a>\u2014were sometimes taken in defiance of national guidance<\/a> and, as a result, changed many perceptions of the role local leaders can play in addressing the nation\u2019s toughest challenges. <\/p>\n

\u201c[Our mayors] helped us to understand what a municipality should be doing in a situation like this that no one has ever dealt with before,\u201d says Edit Bar, who heads a section of the Israeli Ministry of the Interior dedicated to building capacity among local governments. Local leaders \u201cknow what their people need.\u201d <\/p>\n

Now, as a wave of terror attacks presents new challenges<\/a>, Israeli mayors are poised to build on this momentum. This week, Bloomberg Philanthropies and The Sagol Family announced a new initiative<\/a> to strengthen local leadership across Israel: The Bloomberg-Sagol Center for City Leadership at Tel Aviv University. “Local leaders are playing a critical role in responding,” Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies and the 108th mayor of New York City said Sunday in Tel Aviv while announcing the new initiative. “This program will support them.”<\/p>\n

The effort, explains Sagol Family representative Yossi Sagol, is inspired by the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative<\/a>, an executive training program for city leaders that has already trained 196 mayors and 318 senior leaders from 25 countries over the past five years. “By adopting this program in Israel, we can make a real difference on the way local authorities are managed,” he says.<\/p>\n

According to Moshe Zviran, Dean of the Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University and the faculty director of the new initiative, the pandemic was a turning point for mayors. Residents trusted local leaders more than national leaders on everything from lockdowns to vaccination campaigns. \u201cThe citizens believe that the local leaders know what they\u2019re doing,\u201d Zviran says. \u201cMayors are the top line with regard to the relationship with citizens. Central government doesn\u2019t have an impact on our personal lives, where mayors do.\u201d<\/p>\n

A good example is in Yeruham, a desert town of 11,000 in the country\u2019s south. When COVID first began raging in 2020, Mayor Tal Ohana began investigating chains of infection herself<\/a>. She went on to build a network of volunteers and municipal employees to run contact-tracing efforts, and leveraged relationships with local rabbis and others to institute targeted lockdowns in defiance of national orders to stay open. The efforts tamped down a local outbreak\u2014and raised the interest of local leaders across the country. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey suddenly got a model that other authorities could copy and use,\u201d says Netanel Rubinstein, Director of Training and Knowledge Development of Local Government with the Interior Ministry.  \u201cAnd it started from the bottom-up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Successes like this have renewed discussion in Israel of decentralizing more authority and responsibility to local governments. Currently, municipalities are in charge of basic services<\/a> like water, sanitation, and sewage, as well as amenities such as parks, libraries, museums, and cultural activities. A process is underway to decide what else local leaders might take charge of. It\u2019s complicated by the fact that Israel\u2019s 257 local authorities include cities as large as Jerusalem, with 875,000 people, as well as villages of a few thousand, and everything in between.<\/p>\n

The new Bloomberg-Sagol Center for City Leadership will train leaders from across the diverse spectrum of Israeli cities, large and small, Jewish- and Arab-led, from the country\u2019s north and south. A key component of the curriculum will be training in innovation methods that have been catching on in cities across Israel through a program known as Hazira<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hazira, also supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, brings together cross-disciplinary teams of city employees from different departments to collaborate with residents on solving problems. Coaches teach the city teams how to use data to guide decisions and how to co-create solutions with residents using human-centered design<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In the coastal suburb of Bat Yam, city leaders used these methods to address persistent complaints about litter in public places. With residents, they co-designed a pilot<\/a> that\u2019s testing a new model in which the city offers basic cleaning and gardening services to private buildings by charging a small monthly fee. The Arab-led city of Sakhnin is using similar co-design strategies<\/a> to improve the way city hall services are delivered.<\/p>\n

Hazira is now working with eight cities across Israel, and is about to take on several more. The model is based on earlier successes of Bloomberg-funded innovation teams in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Be\u2019er Sheva. \u201cOur mission,\u201d says Itai Eiges, the head of Hazira, \u201cis to change the culture in the municipality.\u201d Hazira will lead innovation training offered to mayors and their teams through the new Bloomberg-Sagol Center.<\/p>\n

At the ceremony Sunday in Tel Aviv, Oakland, Calif., Mayor Libby Schaaf encouraged her Israeli colleagues to take full advantage of the new offering. Schaaf, a member of the first class of mayors to get executive training via the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, said taking part in the program would be the best decision a mayor could make. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis program,\u201d Schaaf said, \u201cwill give you the tools, the resources, and a community of other mayors to help you not just respond to the daily crises, not just solve the most vexing problems of your communities, but to think higher, to dream big, and to accomplish audacious goals.\u201d <\/p>\n

Image: <\/em>From left to right: Michael R. Bloomberg; Tel Aviv University President Ariel Porat and Yossi Sagol <\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a result, the pandemic changed many perceptions of the role local leaders can play in addressing the nation\u2019s toughest challenges This article is from Bloomberg Cities, which is run by Bloomberg Philanthropies\u2019 Government Innovation program. Sign up for their free weekly newsletter here Ever since COVID-19 first took its grip on the globe, many of the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_scj_primary_category_id":136,"_scj_featured":true,"_scj_featured_from":"","_scj_featured_until":"","_scj_featured_order":761,"_scj_visibility_class":"current","_scj_layout_family":"standard","_scj_article_style":"","_scj_display_overrides":[],"_scj_intro_image_id":11546,"_scj_intro_alt":"Strengthening local leadership in Israel at a critical time for cities","_scj_intro_caption":"","_scj_intro_class":"","_scj_intro_float":"","_scj_full_image_id":11546,"_scj_full_alt":"Strengthening local leadership in Israel at a critical time for cities","_scj_full_caption":"","_scj_full_class":"","_scj_full_float":"","_scj_media_type":"","_scj_media_provider":"","_scj_media_external_id":"","_scj_media_url":"","_scj_media_poster_id":0,"_scj_media_width":0,"_scj_media_height":0,"_scj_media_aspect_ratio":"","_scj_media_description":"","_scj_gallery_items":[],"_scj_related_post_ids":[],"_scj_additional_authors":[],"scj_layout_family":"standard","scj_media_provider":"","scj_media_url":"","scj_full_caption":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nStrengthening local leadership in Israel at a critical time for cities - thesmartcityjournal.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ever since COVID-19 first took its grip on the globe, many of the world\u2019s leaders have turned to Israel for guidance. That\u2019s because the country\u2014led in many cases by city-driven innovations\u2014has been on the cutting edge of recovery from the start.\u00a0 The pandemic was a watershed moment for a highly centralized country, where mayors have historically followed the national government\u2019s lead. Their bold actions\u2014whether\u00a0building contract-tracing systems from scratch, setting up networks of young people to check\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/news\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Strengthening local leadership in Israel at a critical time for cities - thesmartcityjournal.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ever since COVID-19 first took its grip on the globe, many of the world\u2019s leaders have turned to Israel for guidance. That\u2019s because the country\u2014led in many cases by city-driven innovations\u2014has been on the cutting edge of recovery from the start.\u00a0 The pandemic was a watershed moment for a highly centralized country, where mayors have historically followed the national government\u2019s lead. Their bold actions\u2014whether\u00a0building contract-tracing systems from scratch, setting up networks of young people to check\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/news\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"thesmartcityjournal.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thesmartcityjournal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-04-08T03:59:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bloomberg.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Redacci\u00f3n de The Smart City Journal\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SmartCityJour_\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@SmartCityJour_\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Redacci\u00f3n de The Smart City Journal\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en\\\/news\\\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en\\\/news\\\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities\"},\"author\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"Redacci\u00f3n de The Smart City Journal\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en\\\/author\\\/smart-city\"},\"headline\":\"Strengthening local leadership in Israel at a critical time for cities\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-08T03:59:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en\\\/news\\\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities\"},\"wordCount\":1074,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en\\\/news\\\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/Bloomberg.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en\\\/news\\\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en\\\/news\\\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities\",\"name\":\"Strengthening local leadership in Israel at a critical time for cities - thesmartcityjournal.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en\\\/news\\\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en\\\/news\\\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/Bloomberg.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-08T03:59:12+00:00\",\"description\":\"Ever since COVID-19 first took its grip on the globe, many of the world\u2019s leaders have turned to Israel for guidance. That\u2019s because the country\u2014led in many cases by city-driven innovations\u2014has been on the cutting edge of recovery from the start.\u00a0 The pandemic was a watershed moment for a highly centralized country, where mayors have historically followed the national government\u2019s lead. Their bold actions\u2014whether\u00a0building contract-tracing systems from scratch, setting up networks of young people to check\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en\\\/news\\\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en\\\/news\\\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en\\\/news\\\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/Bloomberg.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/Bloomberg.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":800,\"caption\":\"Strengthening local leadership in Israel at a critical time for cities\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en\\\/news\\\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Strengthening local leadership in Israel at a critical time for cities\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en\",\"name\":\"thesmartcityjournal.com\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Organization\",\"NewsMediaOrganization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en#organization\",\"name\":\"thesmartcityjournal.com\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/logo-smart-city-journal-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/logo-smart-city-journal-1.png\",\"width\":346,\"height\":91,\"caption\":\"thesmartcityjournal.com\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/thesmartcityjournal\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/SmartCityJour_\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/thesmartcityjournal_\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.tiktok.com\\\/@thesmartcityjournal\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/company\\\/the-smart-city-journal\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/channel\\\/UCIPTMzK206pVFxMNjO7SSxw\"]},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/39c9da1aeac1b5c2d179ef9e4e293cf4\",\"name\":\"Redacci\u00f3n de The Smart City Journal\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Redacci\u00f3n de The Smart City Journal\"},\"description\":\"Equipo de redacci\u00f3n de The Smart City Journal.\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en\\\/author\\\/smart-city\"},{\"@type\":\"SiteNavigationElement\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en#site-navigation\",\"cssSelector\":[\".cib-main-menu\"]},{\"@type\":\"WPHeader\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en#header\",\"cssSelector\":[\".cib-header\"]},{\"@type\":\"WPFooter\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\\\/en#footer\",\"cssSelector\":[\".cib-footer\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Strengthening local leadership in Israel at a critical time for cities - thesmartcityjournal.com","description":"Ever since COVID-19 first took its grip on the globe, many of the world\u2019s leaders have turned to Israel for guidance. That\u2019s because the country\u2014led in many cases by city-driven innovations\u2014has been on the cutting edge of recovery from the start.\u00a0 The pandemic was a watershed moment for a highly centralized country, where mayors have historically followed the national government\u2019s lead. Their bold actions\u2014whether\u00a0building contract-tracing systems from scratch, setting up networks of young people to check","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/news\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Strengthening local leadership in Israel at a critical time for cities - thesmartcityjournal.com","og_description":"Ever since COVID-19 first took its grip on the globe, many of the world\u2019s leaders have turned to Israel for guidance. That\u2019s because the country\u2014led in many cases by city-driven innovations\u2014has been on the cutting edge of recovery from the start.\u00a0 The pandemic was a watershed moment for a highly centralized country, where mayors have historically followed the national government\u2019s lead. Their bold actions\u2014whether\u00a0building contract-tracing systems from scratch, setting up networks of young people to check","og_url":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/news\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities","og_site_name":"thesmartcityjournal.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thesmartcityjournal","article_published_time":"2022-04-08T03:59:12+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":800,"url":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bloomberg.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Redacci\u00f3n de The Smart City Journal","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@SmartCityJour_","twitter_site":"@SmartCityJour_","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Redacci\u00f3n de The Smart City Journal","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/news\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/news\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities"},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Redacci\u00f3n de The Smart City Journal","url":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/author\/smart-city"},"headline":"Strengthening local leadership in Israel at a critical time for cities","datePublished":"2022-04-08T03:59:12+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/news\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities"},"wordCount":1074,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/news\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bloomberg.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/news\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities","url":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/news\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities","name":"Strengthening local leadership in Israel at a critical time for cities - thesmartcityjournal.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/news\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/news\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bloomberg.jpg","datePublished":"2022-04-08T03:59:12+00:00","description":"Ever since COVID-19 first took its grip on the globe, many of the world\u2019s leaders have turned to Israel for guidance. That\u2019s because the country\u2014led in many cases by city-driven innovations\u2014has been on the cutting edge of recovery from the start.\u00a0 The pandemic was a watershed moment for a highly centralized country, where mayors have historically followed the national government\u2019s lead. Their bold actions\u2014whether\u00a0building contract-tracing systems from scratch, setting up networks of young people to check","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/news\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/news\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/news\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bloomberg.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bloomberg.jpg","width":1280,"height":800,"caption":"Strengthening local leadership in Israel at a critical time for cities"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/news\/strengthening-local-leadership-in-israel-at-a-critical-time-for-cities#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Strengthening local leadership in Israel at a critical time for cities"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en#website","url":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en","name":"thesmartcityjournal.com","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Organization","NewsMediaOrganization"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en#organization","name":"thesmartcityjournal.com","url":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/logo-smart-city-journal-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/logo-smart-city-journal-1.png","width":346,"height":91,"caption":"thesmartcityjournal.com"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thesmartcityjournal","https:\/\/x.com\/SmartCityJour_","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thesmartcityjournal_\/","https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@thesmartcityjournal","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/the-smart-city-journal\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCIPTMzK206pVFxMNjO7SSxw"]},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en#\/schema\/person\/39c9da1aeac1b5c2d179ef9e4e293cf4","name":"Redacci\u00f3n de The Smart City Journal","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Redacci\u00f3n de The Smart City Journal"},"description":"Equipo de redacci\u00f3n de The Smart City Journal.","url":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/author\/smart-city"},{"@type":"SiteNavigationElement","@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en#site-navigation","cssSelector":[".cib-main-menu"]},{"@type":"WPHeader","@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en#header","cssSelector":[".cib-header"]},{"@type":"WPFooter","@id":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en#footer","cssSelector":[".cib-footer"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmartcityjournal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}