page_title: Tzvika Brot
section_title: Political career
hierarchical_section_title: Tzvika Brot / Political career
caption_attribution_description: English: Mayor of Bat Yam, Tzvika Brot, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
context_page_description: Tzvika Brot is the mayor of Bat Yam, Israel. He is a strategic advisor and former senior correspondent for Army Radio and Yedioth Ahronoth.
context_section_description: In December 2017, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Brot to serve as his senior advisor and director of communication.  Brot is known as a supporter and close associate of Netanyahu. He turned down the offer, preferring to accept the Likud party invitation to become involved in local politics. 
  In 2018, Brot ran for mayor of the coastal city of Bat Yam on the Likud ticket, defeating the incumbent mayor, Yossi Bachar, on the second round.  Brot’s vision for the city, described by Calcalist as one of Israel’s largest, but also most crowded cities,  is to step up development of employment hubs, commerce and hotels, while stemming the tide of residential housing construction. 
  In response to the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, Brot proposed a series of measures to stop the spike in new infections, among them closing the local beaches between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., closing synagogues, banning gatherings of more than ten people and closing schools from fifth grade and up.In an interview with Yedioth Ahronot correspondent Nahum Barnea,  Brot described  his city as a model in its response to the virus, taking preventive steps even before the government. In consequence, Bat Yam shifted from being defined as a “red” location, i.e., with a high incidence of infection to a “green” location, indicating that the spread of infection was under control.
caption: Tzvika Brot with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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