The two municipal council members from Hadash dropped out of Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai’s coalition on Thursday, June 18, to protest the city’s controversial decision to demolish an historic Muslim burial ground in Jaffa to make way for the construction of a new homeless shelter.
Activist Attorney Amir Badran, one of the two city council members from Hadash who dropped out of the city’s ruling coalition this week, was number two in the local “We Are the City” alliance in the last Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipal elections.(Photo: We Are the City)
The departure of Attorney Amir Badran and the former Peace Now CEO Attorney Moriya Shlomot leaves Huldai without any Arab citizen in his coalition as well as no representative from Jaffa. The two Hadash council members join Abed Abu Shehada, a well-known social activist in Jaffa and a member of the city council from Balad, who dropped out last week for the same reason.
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