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Deputy Mayor Haim Goren says controversial clauses in synagogue contracts were removed long ago, stresses city has no agenda against synagogues.

Tel Aviv has emerged as the most expensive city to live in, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, a research group linked to the Economist magazine.

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Tel Aviv Municipality requires some 130 synagogues to sign contracts obligating them to provide services 'to all residents regardless of belief,' which synagogue leaders are calling 'secular coercion in the name of equality.

Tel Aviv became the latest city to require dog DNA to be submitted by pet owners in order for the city to track un-scooped droppings.

The Israeli city of Tel Aviv has become the most expensive city in the world to live in, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Worldwide Cost of Living index 2021.

The decision by the municipality was met with some condemnation by Israeli officials. Israeli ministers on Sunday strongly condemned reports of a ruling made by the Tel Aviv Municipality requiring dozens of synagogues in the city to sign a new contract that includes a clause stating that they must operate "without distinction of gender or faith.