Petah Tikva
General information
Demographics (according to CBS data from 2022):
District: Center
Municipal status: Municipality
Area (sq km): 35.77
Year of publication of the preparedness plan:
Population density per square kilometer: 7,139.1
Total population at the end of 2022: 255,387
Age distribution :
0-19: 31.9% | 20-64: 51.1% | 65 and over: 16.9%
Population growth percentage compared to the previous year: 1.2
Socio-economic index: Cluster 7
Number of missions in each threat - Petah Tikva
Heat Threats - Petah Tikva
Storms and floods - Petah Tikva
Crossing Threats - Petah Tikva
| permission | task | threat | Field of operation | Secondary field of action | task | Operating factor | Application deadline | Step in the process | Response type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petah Tikva | A responsible party (not necessarily the party responsible for the overall implementation of the plan) will be appointed to monitor climate indicators at the municipal, national and global levels. These indicators will be reported and explained to all officials in the municipal units each year. | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | צוות היערכות לאקלים | Identifying innovative initiatives for implementation in the Authority | Application | administrative | ||
| Petah Tikva | Training and enrichment programs will be developed for municipal employees on the subject. | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | צוות היערכות לאקלים | Organizing training on climate issues for the Authority's employees | Application | administrative | ||
| Petah Tikva | Mapping the existing green network | heat | התאמת המרחב הציבורי להתחממות | Protecting urban ecosystems | Conducting an urban nature infrastructure survey for the purpose of nurturing ecosystems and open spaces in the built environment | Environmental quality | 2025 | Forming a situational picture | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Selecting two selected spaces and proposing pilot projects in principle | heat | shadowing | Urban Shading Program | Carrying out a pilot shading demonstration project | איכות סביבה, אדריכלות עיר | 2024 | Pilots | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Completion of mapping work and intervention strategies | heat | shadowing | Urban Shading Program | Carrying out a pilot shading demonstration project | איכות סביבה, אדריכלות עיר | 2024 | Pilots | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Planning and delivering content on the topic of energy resilience in schools throughout the city. | Crossing threats | Community building and partnerships | Education to address the climate crisis | Building and distributing educational programs on climate assessments | Environmental education | 2024 | Application | Community |
| Petah Tikva | Additional content and hours for climate resilience and sustainable energy programs in education | Crossing threats | Community building and partnerships | Education to address the climate crisis | Building and distributing educational programs on climate assessments | Environmental education | 2024 | Application | Community |
| Petah Tikva | Promoting education for sustainability and health through the integration of content in the education system, urban agriculture, edible forests (fruit trees and spice plants), vertical walls in the streets, birdwatching, and more | Crossing threats | Community building and partnerships | Education to address the climate crisis | Building and distributing educational programs on climate assessments | Environmental education | 2024 | Application | Community |
| Petah Tikva | A municipal index will be developed for progress towards the program's goals. | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Implementation of the preparedness plan | Building control mechanisms and monitoring the progress of the implementation | Formulating a plan | administrative | ||
| Petah Tikva | Opening "resilience centers" for shelter and cooling/heating populations in need according to need in an extreme climate event (emergency event) | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Urban Resilience Centers | Building new resilience centers | Security and emergency | 2024 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Establishing policies to minimize gentrification in urban renewal complexes | Crossing threats | Providing a response to vulnerable populations | Assistance program for vulnerable populations | Building a basket of tools to assist regions and populations identified as vulnerable to extreme climate events, addressing vulnerable populations | כרמים (התחדשות עירונית) | 2024 | Formulating a plan | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | A decision in principle by the city administration | Crossing threats | Providing a response to vulnerable populations | Assistance program for vulnerable populations | Building a basket of tools to assist regions and populations identified as vulnerable to extreme climate events, addressing vulnerable populations | כרמים (התחדשות עירונית) | 2024 | Formulating a plan | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | A proposal to establish an annual regional citizens' conference to discuss climate issues together with representatives of bordering authorities that have prepared a climate change preparedness plan (Hod Hasharon, Rosh HaAyin, and more). | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Implementation of the preparedness plan | Building partnerships to implement assessment actions at the regional level | Application | administrative | ||
| Petah Tikva | A regional coordination team will be established with neighboring authorities to address common challenges, for example a forum for regulating the Mazor River together with the Elad Municipality, the Rosh HaAyin Municipality, the Yarkon Drainage and Rivers Authority, etc. The additional coordination teams that will be established will operate similarly to the regional coordination teams already operating today: a coordination team with Tel Aviv on the issue of bus lines between the cities, with South Sharon, Rosh HaAyin and Kiryat Ono to strengthen weak bus lines (including by combining 2 weak lines into one strong line) and to improve public transportation that serves residents of nearby cities who come to Petah Tikva, and in particular those who come to one of the city's many medical centers or to employment areas. | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Implementation of the preparedness plan | Building partnerships to implement assessment actions at the regional level | Application | administrative | ||
| Petah Tikva | A mechanism for sharing knowledge and experience between authorities in the region will be developed, which will constitute an essential platform for the effective promotion of climate solutions. The mechanism will include a joint digital forum, where each authority will be able to upload information, share challenges and present successes. Mutual study tours of successful projects will be held. A joint database will be established to monitor regional climate impacts. This mechanism will enable mutual learning, saving resources, and more effective dealing with the climate challenges common to the region. | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Implementation of the preparedness plan | Building partnerships to implement assessment actions at the regional level | Application | administrative | ||
| Petah Tikva | Writing spatial guidelines in accordance with TAMA 1 Amendment 8, based on the master plan for drainage and runoff management, and special attention to stormwater management and the construction of underground parking lots | Storms and floods | Flood prevention | Carpentry management in construction projects | Formulation of binding instructions for management of logging for implementation in new plans | engineering | 2024 | Institutionalization | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Allocating a budget and engaging with an expert consultant | Storms and floods | Flood prevention | Carpentry management in construction projects | Formulation of binding instructions for management of logging for implementation in new plans | engineering | 2024 | Institutionalization | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | A fundamental decision by the city administration | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Implementation of the preparedness plan | Formulating an implementation plan for the first year | engineering | 2024 | Formulating a plan | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Creating a comprehensive municipal policy on the issue of stormwater management | Storms and floods | Flood prevention | Formulation of a strategic plan for managing the Authority's watershed | Formulating a carpenter management plan | Environmental Quality, Engineering | 2025 | Formulating a plan | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Consider using an expert hydrological consultant + examine existing procedures and practices currently used in the city | Storms and floods | Flood prevention | Formulation of a strategic plan for managing the Authority's watershed | Formulating a carpenter management plan | Environmental Quality, Engineering | 2025 | Formulating a plan | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Completion of writing the master plan for drainage and runoff management - writing Chapter 9: Summary of the master plan, recommended work plan (with emphasis on tasks to be performed), phases, and an estimate for stabilizing the drainage system | Storms and floods | Flood prevention | Formulation of a strategic plan for managing the Authority's watershed | Formulating a carpenter management plan | engineering | 2024 | Formulating a plan | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Investigating the cause of the failure to complete the writing of the master plan. | Storms and floods | Flood prevention | Formulation of a strategic plan for managing the Authority's watershed | Formulating a carpenter management plan | engineering | 2024 | Formulating a plan | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Creating a municipal policy on the subject of vegetation in public spaces, including setting quantitative goals for planting and identifying budgetary sources for their implementation. | heat | Urban forest | Municipal policy for the urban forest | Formulating a multi-year plan for managing the city's wood resources | City architecture | 2025 | Formulating a plan | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Mapping existing policy tools | heat | Urban forest | Municipal policy for the urban forest | Formulating a multi-year plan for managing the city's wood resources | City architecture | 2025 | Formulating a plan | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Examining how to make street lighting and traffic lights energy-efficient, so that they will function well during a prolonged power outage | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Functional continuity | Ensuring power supply during emergencies | Electricity Division | 2025 | Application | Emergency |
| Petah Tikva | Survey/mapping of examples from other authorities, in Israel and around the world, that have already implemented such systems; examination of existing products on the market; and definition of the appropriate technologies for different areas of the city. In addition, the economic feasibility of each proposed solution must be examined. | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Functional continuity | Ensuring power supply during emergencies | Electricity Division | 2025 | Application | Emergency |
| Petah Tikva | Consider replacing future purchases of emergency generators with portable or stationary energy resilience systems, including solar panels and electricity storage. | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Functional continuity | Ensuring power supply during emergencies | Security and emergency | 2024 | Application | Emergency |
| Petah Tikva | Additional shading through planting large trees and artificial means along main thoroughfares, and especially intensive shading of the stations where passengers wait and prolonged waiting points for pedestrians at intersections. | heat | shadowing | Increasing shadow coverage | Increasing shade coverage in educational institutions, increasing shade coverage on central walking routes | תחבורה ציבורית (אגף תנועה) | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Determining measures of action in the private space (e.g. urban microclimate policy and urban climate-controlled roof policy) | heat | shadowing | Increasing shadow coverage | Increasing shade coverage in private areas | Engineering (licensing) | Application | Community | |
| Petah Tikva | Contacting consultants and holding a kick-off meeting with the municipal team | heat | shadowing | Increasing shadow coverage | Increasing shade coverage in private areas | Engineering (licensing) | Application | Community | |
| Petah Tikva | Adding information about the state of the shade to the municipal application, with an emphasis on the aforementioned walking routes and bus stops. | heat | shadowing | Increasing shadow coverage | Adding real-time shadow status information | תחבורה ציבורית (אגף תנועה) | Application | Infrastructure | |
| Petah Tikva | Creating a system to supervise the implementation of municipal guidelines and municipal policies in the field of gardening in public spaces | heat | Urban forest | Municipal policy for the urban forest | Tightening supervision over damage to trees by development contractors | Engineering (licensing) | 2027 | Institutionalization | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Meeting with all stakeholders to formulate the desired strategy | heat | Urban forest | Municipal policy for the urban forest | Tightening supervision over damage to trees by development contractors | Engineering (licensing) | 2027 | Institutionalization | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Mapping needs in emergency centers | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Urban Resilience Centers | Preparing the Resilience Center to absorb residents in an emergency (equipping, preparing infrastructure, and planning for dividing the space for uses) | Security and emergency | 2024 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Adding a "heat procedure" to the emergency system and practicing implementing the procedure (after the end of the war) | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Preparing a municipal emergency procedure for extreme heat | Preparing a procedure or guideline document for municipal conduct during an extreme heat event | Security and emergency | 2024 | Institutionalization | Emergency |
| Petah Tikva | Updating the municipal procedure for extreme situations so that it is optimally adapted to extreme heat events | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Preparing a municipal emergency procedure for extreme heat | Preparing a procedure or guideline document for municipal conduct during an extreme heat event | Security and emergency | 2024 | Institutionalization | Emergency |
| Petah Tikva | Preparing a municipal plan for energy independence | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Energy resilience | Preparing an energy resilience plan for the Authority | Environmental Quality, Argia Corporation | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Setting goals for energy independence | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Energy resilience | Preparing an energy resilience plan for the Authority | Environmental Quality, Argia Corporation | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Regulating the Mazor Stream at the entrance to the city, at the passage within the city, and at the exit from it. | Storms and floods | התאמת המרחב הבנוי להתמודדות עם הצפות | Creating retention and seepage basins | Regulating streams to prevent flooding | Engineering, Operations | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Completion of the master plan for Nahal Mazor | Storms and floods | התאמת המרחב הבנוי להתמודדות עם הצפות | Creating retention and seepage basins | Regulating streams to prevent flooding | Engineering, Operations | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Expanding activities to promote food security and sustainable nutrition, including preventing food waste and wise consumption: cooking workshops, professional lectures, demonstrations, etc. | Crossing threats | Community building and partnerships | Preparing the community for extreme events | Conducting workshops on climate issues for residents and stakeholders | מתאמת בריאות עירונית | 2024 | Application | Community |
| Petah Tikva | Formulating a policy to favor nature-based solutions in all local systems | heat | התאמת המרחב הציבורי להתחממות | Protecting urban ecosystems | Favoring and implementing nature-based solutions | Environmental quality | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Mapping the appropriate solutions for Petah Tikva | heat | התאמת המרחב הציבורי להתחממות | Protecting urban ecosystems | Favoring and implementing nature-based solutions | Environmental quality | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Testing existing technologies: installation cost, maintenance cost, effectiveness in space cooling. | heat | shadowing | Incorporating new means of artificial shading | Evaluating the effectiveness of shading measures under various conditions | City architecture | 2025 | Pilots | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Mapping walking routes for public transportation in the city, mapping deficiencies in bus stops, and deciding on a number of central routes for intervention | heat | התאמת המרחב הציבורי להתחממות | Reducing heat emissions into public spaces | Reducing motorized transportation in the area | תחבורה ציבורית (אגף תנועה) | 2024 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Action with the Ministry of Transportation to add bus stops on central routes according to mapping and in additional locations that will be located, and upgrading the structure of the stations for optimal protection of passengers. | heat | התאמת המרחב הציבורי להתחממות | Reducing heat emissions into public spaces | Reducing motorized transportation in the area | תחבורה ציבורית (אגף תנועה) | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Continued operation of a short and effective feedback loop between residents and the municipality to promote the use of public transportation | heat | התאמת המרחב הציבורי להתחממות | Reducing heat emissions into public spaces | Reducing motorized transportation in the area | תחבורה ציבורית (אגף תנועה) | current | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Decision on the team members who will lead the operation alongside city planning (in light of the large number of partners and the need to operate effectively) | Storms and floods | Flood prevention | Carpentry management in construction projects | Setting requirements for managing runoff in private and public spaces in building plans and permits | Engineering, Operations | 2025 | Institutionalization | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Completion of the tree survey | heat | Urban forest | Urban forest care | Establishing a database for urban forest findings | Gardens and Landscape | 2025 | Application | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Hiring a professional consultant | heat | Urban forest | Urban forest care | Establishing a database for urban forest findings | Gardens and Landscape | 2025 | Application | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Implementing the review process for plan reviewers in licensing, in accordance with the municipal policy for sustainable planning (Action 9.2 above), and the green building standard required by law. | heat | Climate-adapted construction | Formulation of guidelines and goals | Establishing mechanisms for implementing new construction guidelines | Licensing (Engineering) | Institutionalization | administrative | |
| Petah Tikva | Examining the provision of a solution for the homeless | Crossing threats | Providing a response to vulnerable populations | Establishing support centers | Establishing a system for treating and responding to groups/individuals during a crisis | Welfare | 2025 | Application | Emergency |
| Petah Tikva | Implementing GIS technologies for mapping and managing the urban tree network | heat | Urban forest | Urban forest care | Establishing a monitoring, surveillance, management and maintenance system for the urban forest | GIS | 2025 | Application | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Raising awareness, encouraging private initiatives to lower building temperatures, and encouraging residents to plant shade trees in private areas close to sidewalks. | heat | Urban forest | Community involvement in urban forest management | Connecting the community to tree planting, preservation, and tree care | Environmental quality | current | Application | Community |
| Petah Tikva | Planning of outreach activities | heat | Urban forest | Community involvement in urban forest management | Connecting the community to tree planting, preservation, and tree care | Environmental quality | current | Application | Community |
| Petah Tikva | Publicizing municipal policy on the subject of vegetation in public spaces and educational institutions and dealing with urban heat (in particular: stopping the use of synthetic materials) | heat | Urban forest | Community involvement in urban forest management | Connecting the community to tree planting, preservation, and tree care | איכות סביבה, דוברות | 2026 | Application | Community |
| Petah Tikva | Planning of outreach activities | heat | Urban forest | Community involvement in urban forest management | Connecting the community to tree planting, preservation, and tree care | איכות סביבה, דוברות | 2026 | Application | Community |
| Petah Tikva | Planning significant interventions in the physical space to reduce the risk of flooding in neighborhoods near city streams or that suffer from recurrent flooding | Storms and floods | Flood prevention | Formulation of a strategic plan for managing the Authority's watershed | Strengthening infrastructure and structures in the vulnerable areas that have been mapped | Engineering, Operations | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Preparing a list of places where physical intervention is required. 2. Determining criteria for prioritizing the problems that require a solution according to: urgency, cost, feasibility of relatively quick/immediate treatment, etc. | Storms and floods | ביצוע הערכת סיכונים להצפות | Flood risk mapping | Strengthening infrastructure and structures in the vulnerable areas that have been mapped | Engineering, Operations | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Development of the Winter Pool Park – Implementation of Phase II of the Winter Pool | heat | התאמת המרחב הציבורי להתחממות | Protecting urban ecosystems | Cultivating ecosystems and open spaces in the built environment | Environmental quality | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | After approval of the plan - implementation begins | heat | התאמת המרחב הציבורי להתחממות | Protecting urban ecosystems | Cultivating ecosystems and open spaces in the built environment | Environmental quality | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Encouraging residents to use the green network by expanding the types of uses, proper maintenance, increasing personal safety, and providing information. | heat | התאמת המרחב הציבורי להתחממות | Protecting urban ecosystems | Cultivating ecosystems and open spaces in the built environment | Environmental quality | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Strengthening urban nature by (1) promoting a statutory connection between local natural sites, streams, the green network and other sites; (2) upgrading the city's hidden gardens, with an emphasis on the city center and older areas | heat | התאמת המרחב הציבורי להתחממות | Protecting urban ecosystems | Implementing a planning policy that will protect unique ecological systems in the city in a natural way (green infrastructure/nature-based solutions) | Environmental quality | 2026 | Institutionalization | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Brainstorming to formulate priorities, completing mapping of the existing green network | heat | התאמת המרחב הציבורי להתחממות | Protecting urban ecosystems | Implementing a planning policy that will protect unique ecological systems in the city in a natural way (green infrastructure/nature-based solutions) | Environmental quality | 2026 | Institutionalization | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Creating a toolbox for preserving native species, and integrating the tools into the environmental guidelines of all urban plans | heat | התאמת המרחב הציבורי להתחממות | Protecting urban ecosystems | Implementing planning policies that will ensure the preservation of ecosystem services | Environmental quality | current | Institutionalization | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Contacting an ecologist specializing in urban nature | heat | התאמת המרחב הציבורי להתחממות | Protecting urban ecosystems | Implementing planning policies that will ensure the preservation of ecosystem services | Environmental quality | current | Institutionalization | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Mapping existing tools in the city for planning sustainable landscapes | Storms and floods | התאמת המרחב הבנוי להתמודדות עם הצפות | Creating retention and seepage basins | Implementing nature-based solutions in the watershed | City architecture | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Implementing all recommendations of the action plan for shading and heat mitigation in the city using trees | heat | Urban forest | Expanding the urban forest | Implementing a multi-year planting plan | City architecture | 2030 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Appointment of a person responsible for implementing the plan | heat | Urban forest | Expanding the urban forest | Implementing a multi-year planting plan | City architecture | 2030 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Proposing targeted strategies for intervention in specific problem spaces in the public sphere | heat | shadowing | Urban Shading Program | Writing an urban shading plan | City architecture | 2024 | Formulating a plan | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Cross-referencing information with urban policy and lack of shade, setting criteria for prioritization: streets with walking potential (PW) that do not have enough shade, etc. | heat | shadowing | Urban Shading Program | Writing an urban shading plan | City architecture | 2024 | Formulating a plan | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | A decision will be made on an integrated municipal entity that will be responsible for promoting the plan. | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | צוות היערכות לאקלים | Train a designated person in the municipality to include the issue of preparing for the climate crisis (for example, the municipal sustainability director) | Institutionalization | administrative | ||
| Petah Tikva | Intra-authority feasibility study for adding 2 standards: (1) Landscape Architect in the Architecture Division (2) an additional standard for environmental education in the Environmental Quality Division. | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | צוות היערכות לאקלים | Establish a dedicated team to promote and coordinate municipal climate change preparedness (can be established as a secondary team to the municipal sustainability team) | Architecture (Engineering), Environmental Quality | Institutionalization | administrative | |
| Petah Tikva | Writing a job description document that defines the need to add a standard | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | צוות היערכות לאקלים | Establish a dedicated team to promote and coordinate municipal climate change preparedness (can be established as a secondary team to the municipal sustainability team) | Architecture (Engineering), Environmental Quality | Institutionalization | administrative | |
| Petah Tikva | The core team will continue its activities in coordinating the implementation of the plan, monitoring progress, and coordinating between departments. | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | צוות היערכות לאקלים | Establish a dedicated team to promote and coordinate municipal climate change preparedness (can be established as a secondary team to the municipal sustainability team) | Institutionalization | administrative | ||
| Petah Tikva | Writing a guide to adapting vegetation to the city's climate | heat | Urban forest | Municipal policy for the urban forest | Urban planting policy | Gardens and Landscape | 2026 | Institutionalization | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Deciding on the content of the guide | heat | Urban forest | Municipal policy for the urban forest | Urban planting policy | Gardens and Landscape | 2026 | Institutionalization | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Mapping locations where shade is required and considering combining various shading solutions, including permanent and temporary shading, solar panels | heat | shadowing | Mapping shaded areas | Mapping shaded areas | City architecture | 2024 | Forming a situational picture | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Obtaining a mapping of the city's shadow situation as a product of a shading control center | heat | shadowing | Mapping shaded areas | Mapping shaded areas | City architecture | 2024 | Forming a situational picture | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Mapping of structures in need of reinforcement | Crossing threats | Providing a response to vulnerable populations | Reducing energy poverty | Energy mapping of buildings and housing units of vulnerable populations in and outside public housing | engineering | 2025 | Forming a situational picture | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Mapping vulnerable populations (geographically and socially) to extreme climate events. | Crossing threats | Providing a response to vulnerable populations | Assistance program for vulnerable populations | Mapping the population in the various neighborhoods | Security and emergency | 2024 | Forming a situational picture | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Building a system for receiving flood forecasts and risk assessments, and preparing a flood forecast model at the street and neighborhood level | Storms and floods | ביצוע הערכת סיכונים להצפות | Flood risk mapping | Mapping and identifying areas vulnerable to flooding | איכות סביבה, תפעול | 2024 | Forming a situational picture | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Participation in the Local Government Center's pilot for predicting flooding in public spaces at the street and neighborhood level | Storms and floods | ביצוע הערכת סיכונים להצפות | Flood risk mapping | Mapping and identifying areas vulnerable to flooding | איכות סביבה, תפעול | 2024 | Forming a situational picture | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Identification of areas sensitive to flooding, mapping of urban renewal complexes and recommendations for changing the urban planning plan accordingly | Storms and floods | ביצוע הערכת סיכונים להצפות | Flood risk mapping | Mapping and identifying areas vulnerable to flooding | Engineering, Operations | 2025 | Forming a situational picture | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Implementing the guidelines for sustainable planning in all departments of the municipality, and ensuring that the construction of a model "climate-adapted" neighborhood (Nof Yarkon) will be carried out in accordance with the urban plan and detailed planning. | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Integrating climate aspects into launch plans | Mapping, analyzing, and integrating climate planning components into strategic and spatial urban plans | City planning | 2024 | Institutionalization | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Continued activity of the steering committee headed by the mayor. | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Implementation of the preparedness plan | Finding new sources of funding for preparedness activities | Environmental quality | current | Application | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Search and locate voices calling for raising budgets to implement the actions | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Implementation of the preparedness plan | Finding new sources of funding for preparedness activities | Environmental quality | current | Application | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | A decision will be made on a municipal agency to locate sources of funding for climate projects. | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Implementation of the preparedness plan | Finding new sources of funding for preparedness activities | Application | administrative | ||
| Petah Tikva | Examining the need to update the plan towards 2028 | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Implementation of the preparedness plan | Periodic update of the assessment plan | Environmental quality | 2027 | Formulating a plan | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Completion of preparation of an operations status report by the end of the first quarter of 2027 | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Implementation of the preparedness plan | Periodic update of the assessment plan | Environmental quality | 2027 | Formulating a plan | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Updating the plan - if it was decided to carry out the update in action 12.4. | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Implementation of the preparedness plan | Periodic update of the assessment plan | Environmental quality | 2027 | Formulating a plan | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Decision whether to be carried out by an authority official or an external consultant | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Implementation of the preparedness plan | Periodic update of the assessment plan | Environmental quality | 2027 | Formulating a plan | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Climate indicators (as well as climate trends) will be of great significance when making the decision to update the plan in 2027-2028. | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Implementation of the preparedness plan | Periodic update of the assessment plan | Formulating a plan | administrative | ||
| Petah Tikva | The plan will be reviewed in 2027 and updated if necessary in 2028. | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Implementation of the preparedness plan | Periodic update of the assessment plan | Formulating a plan | administrative | ||
| Petah Tikva | Examining the possibility of encouraging the upgrading of large private buildings to be energy-efficient, in addition to public buildings | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Energy resilience | Encouraging energy resilience actions in high-rises and large buildings | Environmental quality | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Coordination with local authorities and other bodies related to local government to collaborate in raising the need for government | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Energy resilience | Encouraging energy resilience actions in high-rises and large buildings | Environmental Quality, Engineering | 2024 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Examining the tools for promoting energy resilience of essential systems in high-rise buildings | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Energy resilience | Encouraging energy resilience actions in high-rises and large buildings | Environmental Quality, Engineering | 2024 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Creating a toolbox for an inviting, cool, and pleasant public space: Improving guidelines and urban specifications for the development of public space (such as "street language") | heat | התאמת המרחב הציבורי להתחממות | Developing infrastructure for outdoor activities | Designing spaces that reduce users' exposure to heat | City architecture | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Refreshing and updating emergency procedures for storms and floods | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Preparing a municipal emergency procedure for storms and hurricanes | Details of required actions as part of the preparation of municipal emergency agencies | Security and emergency | 2024 | Institutionalization | Emergency |
| Petah Tikva | Implementing cross-functional work processes in the municipality and involving all parties in the city's planning process, including the Buildings and Infrastructure Division. | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Implementation of the preparedness plan | Developing climate action plans for each department in the municipality | engineering | 2024 | Formulating a plan | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | A forum for division/department managers will be established to integrate climate considerations into their work. | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Implementation of the preparedness plan | Developing climate action plans for each department in the municipality | Formulating a plan | administrative | ||
| Petah Tikva | Expanding the possibilities for physical, social, and community activity in the public-urban space | heat | התאמת המרחב הציבורי להתחממות | Developing infrastructure for outdoor activities | Development of community infrastructure for physical activity - running/walking trails and community sports facilities. | Urban architecture, environmental quality, welfare | Application | Infrastructure | |
| Petah Tikva | Institutionalizing an "easy path for urban renewal" to promote sustainable construction in buildings that require reinforcement: adding acclimatization of buildings inhabited by disadvantaged populations during the reinforcement of buildings | Crossing threats | Providing a response to vulnerable populations | Reducing energy poverty | Actions to acclimatize buildings to identified populations | engineering | 2025 | Application | Vulnerable populations |
| Petah Tikva | A dedicated website will be established to present data and updates to the public. | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Implementation of the preparedness plan | Publishing the plan and accompanying content on the municipality's website | Application | administrative | ||
| Petah Tikva | An annual progress report will be published to the public. | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Implementation of the preparedness plan | Publishing the plan and accompanying content on the municipality's website | Application | administrative | ||
| Petah Tikva | Updating spatial guidelines and writing urban policy to require the construction of educational institutions, public buildings, and other buildings that will be decided upon, so that they are energy-efficient | heat | Climate-adapted construction | Formulation of guidelines and goals | Setting guidelines and goals for new public and private construction | City architecture | 2025 | Institutionalization | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | The steering committee, headed by the mayor, will continue to meet every six months for ongoing updates on the implementation of the actions, and to make necessary strategic decisions. | Crossing threats | Adapting the municipality's work to the crisis | Implementation of the preparedness plan | Establishing a periodic steering committee to monitor the progress of implementation | Formulating a plan | administrative | ||
| Petah Tikva | Connection to a system for receiving real-time flood forecasts | Crossing threats | מערך התראה לאירועי קיצון | Forecast data concentration | Centralizing information from the government on climate events for accurate prediction of weather data at local resolution and assessing their scope | Security and emergency | 2024 | Forming a situational picture | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | The existing cooperation with the Meteorological Service will be upgraded to receive updates on climatic status indicators (as detailed in this chapter) on an annual basis. | Crossing threats | מערך התראה לאירועי קיצון | Forecast data concentration | Centralizing information from the government on climate events for accurate prediction of weather data at local resolution and assessing their scope | Forming a situational picture | administrative | ||
| Petah Tikva | Establishing a municipal policy that requires sustainable planning in all new neighborhoods/urban renewal complexes and complexes for future planning ("infills") | heat | Climate-adapted construction | Formulation of guidelines and goals | Upgrading green building requirements according to construction types and requiring selected topics as a threshold requirement | איכות סביבה, תכנון ואדרילות עיר (הנדסה) | 2025 | Institutionalization | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | A decision in principle by the city administration | heat | Climate-adapted construction | Formulation of guidelines and goals | Upgrading green building requirements according to construction types and requiring selected topics as a threshold requirement | איכות סביבה, תכנון ואדרילות עיר (הנדסה) | 2025 | Institutionalization | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Informing the parent public about the safety of electricity production and storage in educational buildings | heat | Climate-adapted construction | Acclimatization of public buildings | Integrating storage solutions to reduce loads and stabilize the electricity grid | Environmental quality | 2024 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Consultation with a behavioral economics expert, and detailed planning of the outreach campaign in accordance with the advice | heat | Climate-adapted construction | Acclimatization of public buildings | Integrating storage solutions to reduce loads and stabilize the electricity grid | Environmental quality | 2024 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Examining the establishment of solar systems and energy resilience systems in public buildings and existing schools that are not currently defined as emergency centers | heat | Climate-adapted construction | Acclimatization of public buildings | Integrating storage solutions to reduce loads and stabilize the electricity grid | Environmental Quality, Petah Tikva Development Company | 2026 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Creating a list of buildings for upgrading that are not currently defined as emergency centers | heat | Climate-adapted construction | Acclimatization of public buildings | Integrating storage solutions to reduce loads and stabilize the electricity grid | Environmental Quality, Petah Tikva Development Company | 2026 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Organizing authorities to raise awareness of national bodies to promote energy resilience in essential facilities that are not under the municipality's authority | heat | Climate-adapted construction | Acclimatization of public buildings | Integrating storage solutions to reduce loads and stabilize the electricity grid | Environmental Quality, Engineering | 2024 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Coordination with local authorities and other bodies related to local government to collaborate in raising the need for government | heat | Climate-adapted construction | Acclimatization of public buildings | Integrating storage solutions to reduce loads and stabilize the electricity grid | Environmental Quality, Engineering | 2024 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Creating a toolbox for sustainable landscape planning and stream management combined with nature-based solutions | Storms and floods | Flood prevention | Formulation of a strategic plan for managing the Authority's watershed | Integrating nature-based solutions for treating runoff | City architecture | 2025 | Formulating a plan | administrative |
| Petah Tikva | Upgrading a municipally managed complex to become an energy-efficient complex | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Urban Resilience Centers | A combination of elements that provide energy independence to the structure | Public Buildings Division | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Decision on the location of the pilot establishment | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Urban Resilience Centers | A combination of elements that provide energy independence to the structure | Public Buildings Division | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Completion of an examination and mapping of the options for upgrading existing emergency spaces to energy-resistant complexes | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Urban Resilience Centers | A combination of elements that provide energy independence to the structure | Security and Emergency, Public Buildings Division | 2024 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Completing the upgrade of existing emergency spaces to energy-resistant complexes | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Urban Resilience Centers | A combination of elements that provide energy independence to the structure | Security and Emergency, Public Buildings Division | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Preparing a plan to complete the upgrade of all existing emergency spaces in the city to energy-proof complexes | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Urban Resilience Centers | A combination of elements that provide energy independence to the structure | Security and Emergency, Public Buildings Division | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Initial feasibility study to conduct a pilot to upgrade 3 municipally managed complexes to be energy-efficient | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Urban Resilience Centers | A combination of elements that provide energy independence to the structure | Security and Emergency, Public Buildings Division | Done | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Mapping suitable sites for the construction of fountains/wading pools, cost analysis | heat | התאמת המרחב הציבורי להתחממות | Developing infrastructure for outdoor activities | Using water to cool the space | Urban architecture, environmental quality, welfare | Application | Infrastructure | |
| Petah Tikva | Creating collaboration with health and community organizations in the city, such as community centers, health funds, hospitals, and more. | Crossing threats | Community building and partnerships | שיתוף הקהילה בהיערכות עירונית | Collaboration with organizations to promote awareness and action on climate change | מתאמת בריאות עירונית | 2024 | Application | Community |
| Petah Tikva | Public participation to collect information relevant to the implementation of this plan | Crossing threats | Community building and partnerships | שיתוף הקהילה בהיערכות עירונית | Public and stakeholder participation in preparing the preparedness plan | Environmental quality | 2024 | Formulating a plan | Community |
| Petah Tikva | Create a public questionnaire | Crossing threats | Community building and partnerships | שיתוף הקהילה בהיערכות עירונית | Public and stakeholder participation in preparing the preparedness plan | Environmental quality | 2024 | Formulating a plan | Community |
| Petah Tikva | An inter-sectoral forum will be established, including representatives of businesses, civil society organizations, and educational institutions, led by the municipality and in collaboration with a senior representative from civil society. The forum will meet quarterly, with monthly working groups, and will engage in raising awareness, sharing knowledge, and initiating projects. The forum's work products will include, among other things, launching community projects, developing engagement metrics, influencing municipal policy, and expanding inter-sectoral collaborations. The forum will serve as a central tool for creating broad community commitment to addressing climate change in the city. | Crossing threats | Community building and partnerships | שיתוף הקהילה בהיערכות עירונית | Public and stakeholder participation in preparing the preparedness plan | Formulating a plan | Community | ||
| Petah Tikva | Expanding community garden activities throughout the city | Crossing threats | Community building and partnerships | Strengthening the sense of community in the Authority | Support for community gardens | Environmental education | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Mapping activities in existing gardens and locating locations for new gardens. | Crossing threats | Community building and partnerships | Strengthening the sense of community in the Authority | Support for community gardens | Environmental education | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Designing a slow charging network for electric vehicles | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Energy resilience | Support for the electrification of transportation infrastructure and vehicle fleets | Engineering, Petah Tikva Development Company | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Survey/mapping of examples from other authorities, in Israel and around the world, that have already implemented such systems; examination of existing products on the market; and definition of the technologies that are appropriate for different areas of the city. In addition, the economic feasibility of each proposed solution must be examined. | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Energy resilience | Support for the electrification of transportation infrastructure and vehicle fleets | Engineering, Petah Tikva Development Company | 2025 | Application | Infrastructure |
| Petah Tikva | Examining the legal possibility of considering integration into threshold conditions or giving preference in tenders to transportation providers of the municipality, for the use of an electric vehicle that will normally only perform transportation and in an emergency will be at the disposal of the municipality as a provider of renewable energy. | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Energy resilience | Support for the electrification of transportation infrastructure and vehicle fleets | Education | Application | Infrastructure | |
| Petah Tikva | Inquiry about the upcoming tender date | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Energy resilience | Support for the electrification of transportation infrastructure and vehicle fleets | Education | Application | Infrastructure | |
| Petah Tikva | Examining the gradual replacement of the municipal vehicle fleet with electric vehicles, by adjusting future tenders for selecting a vehicle supplier. | Crossing threats | היערכות לאירועי קיצון | Energy resilience | Support for the electrification of transportation infrastructure and vehicle fleets | רכב | Application | Infrastructure |