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UPDATE:

Minister Yariv Levin, acting Minister of Religious Affairs, confirmed this is not accurate. After looking into it it seems this was an initial draft with the clause being included in contracts for all government property but was removed from the contracts with shuls already a few months ago...

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The City of Tel Aviv is renewing land leases for different organizations operating shuls on city property. These are shuls that never completed their registrations with the Land Registry. The new contracts that would allow the shuls to continue to operate include a clause never before included.

The clause stipulates that the synagogues must provide religious services to all neighborhood residents, regardless of age, gender, or belief.

The various shuls leadership/boards are concerned this would in essence prevent them from functioning as an Orthodox shul and would open them up to lawsuits of discrimination for having a mechitza and for nor offering Muslim prayers, and the like.

Some shuls have already refused to sign this new contract and have been given eviction orders.

source: Hamechadesh

Whatever they are trying to do, I suspect it is going to backfire and there will be a backlash against the city's efforts. If groups want to open Reform or Conservative shuls and have mixed seating or multi-denominational services, they should open those as they see fit, but I dont think forcing this on Orthodox shuls is going to work. 

In past years when they did not want to allow public prayer on the High Holidays in public areas due to gender discrimination, they justified it by saying there are plenty of shuls all around Tel Aviv offering traditional services. And now they are running a campaign to stop the shuls from offering those traditional services?

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Fair enough.

The City of Tel Aviv reportedly has said no public prayer will be allowed. Go to shul if you want to pray. From what I understand they said that in years past it was only because of CoronaVirus issues and attempts to keep indoor gatherings small, if at all, so they allowed prayer gatherings outside, but before that and after that it is not and was not allowed.

Fair enough.

While I have no specific desire for them to allow prayer in the streets, I think they should be davening in shul in general and not int eh streets unless there are extenuating circumstances, I do think the person who made the request should either appeal the decision or appeal to the courts.  The City of Tel Aviv recently allowed public prayer for Muslims in public areas outdoors for a recent holiday (Chag HaKorban). If outdoor prayer can be allowed for Muslims, it should also be allowed for Jews.

Whatever is decided, I hope people can respect the final decisions and not have/cause a repeat of last years terrible situation.

Hezbollah has destroyed the northern region of Israel over the past nearly ten months, and while Israel has responded with targeted strikes, many times Hezbollah strikes on Israel go without response. The Houthis have shot missiles and drones at Israel and at Israeli shipping interests for the past ten months and until now they have all gone without response. The Houthis sent a suicide drone to Tel Aviv that gets through the defense systems and kills one and injures others (and also causes damage), and Israel responds by attacking and destroying a port and infrastructure.

Some are upset at the government saying that when it was just the peripheral communities being affected, Israel basically allows itself to absorb the damage with little to no response, but when it is Tel Aviv that is hit Israel responds big time. They understandably don't like being made to feel like second class citizens not worth defending. The government denies this type of attitude.

While the government denies this attitude of only taking it seriously when it is Tel Aviv under attack, the fact is the response only came when it was Tel Aviv that was hit, not when the Houthis from Yemen shot missiles at ships or at Eilat, and often not when Hezbollah sends drones in or destroys homes and kills people in the Upper Galilee or in the Golan Heights. 

So is the government treating them like second class citizens or is it not? In actions it looks like Israel takes it more seriously when Tel Aviv is hit than when Metulla or Manara or Eilat are hit.

On the other hand, this government hates Tel Aviv and what it represents (at least it seems that way), while much of the peripheral towns are this government's natural supporters. If they are only taking it more seriously because it was Tel Aviv that was hit, that makes little sense. Why would the Israeli government get more outraged when the Tel Aviv leftists are hit than when it is the residents of the peripheral communities being hit?

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