Enhancing communality as a municipal strategy that encompasses all local authority elements and positions the municipal space as a generator of communality leads to a decrease in negative migration of youngsters and young families, to an aspiration for incoming migration while enhancing the sense of belonging, and to the development of community resilience – all through the experience of communality and quality connections among local inhabitants.

The Shahaf Foundation is currently in the process of implementing this program in the city of Bat-Yam, with more than ten other municipalities having shown an interest in joining the process.