"I will not hesitate to fire local council heads over flawed conduct," new Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit said Wednesday morning as he presented to the Knesset's Internal Affairs Committee the series of reforms he plans to implement in his ministry.
"I will give council heads authority, but I will demand responsibility," he said. "I plan to decentralize the ministry's work in order to give the different district managers their authority back so as to ease the work of the local councils."
The minister explained to the committee members that he planned to reinforce the status of council heads and reduce the number of city council members.
He said he also planned to implement recovery and reorganization plans in problematic councils and to merge local councils.
Sheetrit also plans to establish a population and immigration authority and to reduce the number of foreign workers in Israel .