The importance of urban community infrastructures for promoting community in cities

Communities promote the ability to deal with the challenges of the 21st century. Furthermore, during the COVID-19 period, it was possible to see the strength of the local community considering the central government's difficulty in responding. Strengthening community resilience may be achieved through the establishment of community infrastructure in local authorities. In the last decade especially following COVID-19, the local authorities in Israel began to understand the value of community infrastructure and some of them even worked to establish a community department in the authority. Presentation of research that is currently taking place in the field among the local authorities, through the presentation of outlines for the establishment and operation of a community wing, as well as the need for an area that will help to establish and develop the subject, alongside an attempt to understand the place of the central government in such a process. Also, presenting recommendations to the local and central government for further development and promotion of the issue. The reference findings from the research indicate the value of a community department for a local authority is expressed as an effective tool for managing the authority regarding the allocation of public resources, the implementation of authority policies, service to the residents, activities during a crisis, as well as help to solve social solutions and an increase in the city's attractiveness, an increase in the city's satisfaction and quality of life and the residents.