political

•  06/16/2021 06:54 PM

City council members were notified of executive and plenary meetings one after the other, in two weeks. At these meetings, the members are supposed to discuss the new property tax decree, which is about to become significantly more expensive, budget approvals, some of which are controversial:

•  06/02/2021 05:42 AM

The Hamodi newspaper in a special article about the rotation agreement approved on Sunday by the city council. In an extraordinary coverage of Rabbi Yeshayahu Ehrenreich, the deputy mayor, who is in charge of senior positions in the city:

•  05/31/2021 04:26 AM

Such a thing did not happen during the tenure of Mayor Aliza Bloch. Plans totaling more than NIS 11 million went up for approval by council members, but most members objected and the proposal fell through, this happens in the first shift of the new chief of staff, more details inside:

•  05/25/2021 02:42 PM

Blitz of meetings: The mayor's office probably thought that the municipal budget would pass easily, almost automatically and without unnecessary noises, but when the big mistake turned out to be quite late. The Interior Ministry intervened in transferring the budget and the mayor realized that the current situation would not continue. Tensions are high ahead of the budget transfer tomorrow. Beit Shemesh News reporters follow the events. More details inside:

•  05/25/2021 12:52 PM

As we announced, the mayor intends to raise the rotation agreement in Agudat Israel tomorrow for approval by the plenum of the city council, according to the coalition agreement signed at the beginning of the municipal coalition's term. Beit Shemesh News received a document (10/01) in which the Attorney General's opinion is presented to the Beit Shemesh Municipality and those concerned, in which he clarifies that the position of chairman of the Planning and Construction Committee cannot be held by anyone other than the Deputy Mayor. In the plenum? And more, in the 'full article':

•  05/22/2021 10:59 PM

At the end of the week, the Agudat Israel faction (rarely) sat down for a faction meeting, at which it was decided that the rotation agreement agreed upon at the beginning of their path in the coalition would be implemented. And what about the municipal budget? Will they vote for or against? Details inside:

•  02/25/2021 03:52 PM

'On the contrary', the plenum of the city council passed relatively quickly and quietly, this after months in which the plenum was particularly turbulent. Is everything really quiet? Or is it quiet before a storm ...? And also: Watch Sheetrit and Escalo Mula in a joint dance with Goldberg, Ernreich and Silberstein, Adar plenum in the 'full article':

•  02/04/2021 07:52 PM

Will the district director in the Interior Ministry intervene? A week has passed since we published the demand of council members from the Jewish Home parties and the Likud from Mayor Aliza Bloch to convene the municipal plenum, so far council members have not received an official summons to a plenary session 'as required by law'. By law, the mayor is obliged to convene the plenum within seven days. When should it announce the convening of the plenum? And what happens if the mayor does not convene a plenum? This and more in the 'full article':

•  01/29/2021 04:05 PM

It turns out that what you heard, the mayor did not hear: In a weekly summary message sent by Mayor Aliza Bloch to council members, the mayor summarizes the work and successes of the municipality last week. The tumultuous plenary session also appears there, but without any mention of what was really there, apart from the unanimous approval - the plots for building classrooms. Not a word about a coalition with an internal warring opposition. The mayor emphasizes the need to maintain guidelines for the health of us all The message that was distributed by the city management group inside, go to read. In the photo: Likud branch chairman Beit Shemesh Shalom Edri points an accusing finger at the mayor

•  01/28/2021 08:11 AM

The Branco Weiss School sports hall was (almost) full of all council members, 20 council members came to the current plenum, except for one absentee abroad, which has not happened for half a year or more, everyone eagerly expected to understand what would happen and whose hand would be on For almost an hour, the Likud and Jewish House factions quarreled with the mayor, Shalom Edri, for the mayor: We act not according to what you want but according to what the law stipulates. Detailed report and photos from the city council meeting in the 'full article':

•  01/25/2021 07:46 AM

זה אירוע מתגלגל כבר למעלה משנה. ראש העיר לא מצליחה להסתדר עם השותפים הטבעיים שלה בשר מבשרה וזה סיעת הבית היהודי. זה לא סוד שרוב חברי המועצה הם חרדים וחייבים ללכת בין הטיפות אבל משהו באסטרטגיה לא עובד. יועצי ראש העיר הסבירו לה שאת הליכוד היא תחבק, אגודת ישראל ישלטו בהחלטות, על הבית היהודי היא תדלג, ואת דגל היא תפצל. נראה כי עיקר המחשבה היום היא כיצד להשתלט על קולות הבית היהודי בעיר ולראות איך היא מבטיחה לעצמה את הקדנציה הבאה. טור פוליטי של כתב בית שמש חדשות בעקבות ישיבת ההנהלה הסוערת אתמול, כנסו לקריאה:

•  01/20/2021 07:22 AM

הלילה התפרסמה ברשתות החברתיות של 'בית שמש חדשות' תמונה מביקורו של ראש מטה לשכת ראש העיר, יוחנן מאלי, יחד עם חברי 'דגל התורה' ישראל סילברסטין ויוסי גולדהירש, אצל הגאון הרב חיים קנייבסקי שליט"א. תמונה שעל פניו נראית תמימה - בקשת ברכה 'להצלחת ראש העיר'. אך האם מאחרי התמונה מישהו מנסה לרמוז על מהלך קרוב? האם נראה שינוי בכללי המשחק הפולטיים בבית שמש? ההמשך בפנים: