The Attempt to Establish an Umbrella Municipality in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area in the 1960s and 1970s
Keywords:
Dan Bloc, Israel in the 1970s, Intermunicipal Relations, Central–Local Government Relations, Umbrella MunicipalityAbstract
This article deals with the relationship between the national government and Tel Aviv and its surrounding cities (the Dan Bloc). It focuses on the aspirations in the early 1960s to establish an umbrella municipality, a legal body responsible for the overall management of the city cluster. This effort was part of the international discourse on urban development that had been inspired by municipal reforms in several countries. By the 1960s and 1970s the Dan Bloc had reached the point where it needed overall management. This entailed changing the cities’ legal status and creating an umbrella municipality or, under the existing law, the cooperative management of the different cities for the common good. To this day, an umbrella municipality has yet to be established. The article explores why the launching of this arrangement failed and how the Israeli government and one or more of the cities in the bloc thwarted the effort.
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