At a non-quorum meeting held this evening, Sunday 07/04/24, Mayor Yona Yahav said that he is hearing the assessments of the security establishment regarding what is expected to happen in the north, and he is not sleeping at night: "In view of the threats to the north of the country, I want to address the residents and ask everyone Someone who will make sure that he has a landline phone in the MMD or shelter.
I have 4 landlines at home. In case of an emergency there will be a problem with the cell phones, so it is very important to take care of phone lines. I will also check what is happening with the ultra-orthodox population. We see a lot of cases where, although people have private parking lots, they park on the road, which can be very problematic in an emergency.
I already dealt with an emergency situation in 2016 when the big fire happened so I know that the roads should be as clear as possible. In addition, I intend to take care of diluting the dangerous substances in Haifa. We did it with the ammonia tank and we will do it again. Another topic we will deal with is the closed neighborhoods. Former Minister of Transportation Israel Katz understood exactly the importance of the matter and took care of the budget, but the ones who stopped it were the residents. Every resident opposes the construction of a road near their house, which creates a very dangerous situation. Every neighborhood needs at least twice as many exits as it does."
Yahav also stated that he intends to address the inequality related to the fact that while residents of Jerusalem do not pay for traveling on toll roads, in Haifa a resident of the city has to pay "half of his salary" for traveling through the Carmel tunnels. He also said that although the residents of the north are not counted today, he intends to change the situation and bring budgets to Haifa. Another thing that Yahav said is that he is very disturbed by the fact that half of the municipality's employees do not live in Haifa and he does not know how they will be able to get to work during wartime.
Director of the Security Division Yair Zilberman: "We are doing everything so that the shelters are ready for an emergency"
The director of the security department, Yair Zilberman, explained the security activities in recent times. He noted that these days the remote opening of the public shelters is being completed, so that as soon as there is an alarm, the shelters will be opened. According to him, since the war of the Iron Swords broke out, the shelters have been vandalized and therefore it is so important to reuse them and keep them closed, until they have to be used.
In addition, he noted that there are several buildings in Haifa that could be used as mass shelters in an emergency, as well as the six Carmelit stations. Zilberman detailed what is being done now in order for the public shelters to respond to the residents and explained that a meeting or two are held every week to examine the security situation.
After these things, several decisions were made:
Gadi Margalit received his powers as the director general of the municipality, the budget for the National Week events was approved, the cleaning budget for Passover was approved, the assistants of the mayor's assistants and the assistant director general were budgeted, the May council meeting was canceled due to the proximity of the national holidays and the proposed resolution to establish a municipal education board was approved , which will be headed by Danny Fessler.
Yahav explained why a municipal education council should be established:
"I hear a consensus that studies are boring, and we want to overcome this problem. Danny Fessler for years ran a very successful school and he knows how to do it. He will be able to provide a solution to this problem."
Council member Jacob Borovski claimed that he agrees with the need to establish the council but does not think that the city council should approve the decision. Legal advisor Yamit Klein closed the discussion and said that the education committee approved at the previous council meeting does not contradict the education council, which is approved now. She explained that the city council approves the education board because of the desire to act transparently and bring such a significant issue to the council's approval, but indeed this was not mandatory.
After the council meeting, a plenum of the local committee for planning and construction was held and it was determined that Deputy Mayor Sharit Golan Steinberg will head the sub-committee for planning and construction.
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Honorable Yona Yahav, landline phones these days are based on internet and electricity.
The landline phone works on a fiber infrastructure
Someone update the embarrassing pensioner...
Parking inside streets and blocking sidewalks and emergency roads has become an urban bane in all of Haifa due to lack of enforcement by the municipality.
The mayor talks about vehicles parked on the roads and what he is doing about it or did until 2018???
Haifa Municipality should immediately purchase a towing vehicle - to tow vehicles parked on the roads and impose the cost and fines on the offenders
A little more hysteria and they win
Michali Very interesting article, thanks for the information
On Rothschild Boulevard there are shelters with wooden doors and open windows
There is no standard for shelters!
Approve new projects and promote evacuation and construction where improvements must be made
Haifa has become a ghost town, and there are no jobs for young people
All the young people run away to the center to work!! It's time for a change in Haifa
On Rothschild Boulevard there are shelters with wooden doors and open windows
There is no standard for shelters!
Approve new projects and promote evacuation and construction where improvements must be made
Haifa has become a ghost town, and there are no jobs for young people
All the young people run away to the center to work!! It's time for a change in Haifa
Landline phone... I wonder how much Bezeq paid to Yona..
The landline phone works on a fiber infrastructure
Someone update the embarrassing pensioner...
And what does the municipality do with huge neighborhoods that only have one entrance? And what about another exit from Carmel towards the beach?
I don't sleep either knowing you're my mayor.
Parking at the haredi? How many of them even have cars? Before you generalize, look at what is happening on this issue in Abbas, in Bethlehem, in Chalissa, in the Wadi. Why don't you include them? Why don't you say that during your terms there is an immigration of residents from the cities and villages of the Galilee to Haifa and our city is deteriorating demographically?
Budgets? Why will they tell us in Jerusalem that you are the mayor? A mayor from a Hezbollah supporter to the deputy mayor should, in my opinion, have resigned that day and gone home!
I wonder if you think before you write 🤔
Why did you mix things that are not related to this post?
* that you supported does not support, correction in the text
The response fits the definition of an Iranian bot.
Reading the text again, it is possible that the mayor included the ultra-Orthodox in the context of the telephones and not in the context of parking on the road, and if there is no 100% certainty as to his intention, I repeat myself and apologize for the parts that deal with the whole issue in my response. Along with this, I still think that he should have resigned on the day he appointed Yur as his deputy from a party that he previously expressed Words of support and legitimacy for Hezbollah and Hamas. Appointment canceled under public pressure.
I mean protection!!! Sorry for the mistake
Please take care of cars that are mobile and close to most of the houses on streets like Golomb Street and actually most of Hadar Elion and Hadar where the shelters are very old and the Carmelite station is far from most of the houses. The residents are mostly elderly and will not be beaten to descend quickly into the depths of Carmel. Thanks for them.
Ammonia is not flammable but toxic, the vapors of ammonia are heavier than the air and do not evaporate, they remain on the surface of the ground and spread to the environment. The inhabitants of the crevices that were around the ammonia tank would be extinct if there was a significant damage to it.
Luckily he was eliminated!
The problem is not a fuel tank that is many kilometers away from the residential area,
The problem is the tangled vegetation that is adjacent to the houses.
By the way, ammonia is really not flammable.
which road What kind of road does Yuna talk about for 60% of the population there are no shelters in the buildings, she no longer talks about there being streets that also don't have public shelters such as Geula Street, the closest shelter is Arlozorov or Pevzner which is a 10 minute walk, I sent several letters and nothing.
Haifa is a city in a difficult economic situation due to 20 years of bad management mistakes even before the war, the results of which on Haifa, Haifa's ports and its infrastructure are not yet clear to the end.
For all these reasons, the appointment of a mayor that failed and brought Haifa from a state of budgetary balance it received in the early 2000s to a huge deficit of a billion shekels in 2018 and the appointment of a director general of the municipality that is almost undisputed failed miserably and was one of the reasons for the RA's loss in the 2018 elections simply cannot return to their position.
What keeps everyone in the municipal processes and the municipality awake is the terrible management of these two people who returned to their positions even though they left a crushed and destroyed municipality and municipal departments. The management of the current mayor led to the fire disaster in Carmel (he refused to purchase fire engines in early 2010 and in December all of Haifa caught fire). His failed management in 2006 also created a situation in which Haifa lost billions of shekels in reconstruction budgets because he worked with a publicist to prevent budgets for the Kariya cities as well.
The improper, factional, partisan and arrogant way of management that characterized it cannot change. Exploded headlines that hide a dereliction of duty that is just as failed if not more so than the person who tried to correct it. Because there is no doubt that he left her a city in a severe crisis and she only deepened it. And above all, the celebrations of the city employees to corrupt the city budget together with the previous weak mayor - were the most accurate reflection of Margalit's bad behavior as the previous CEO. The applause was a poor certificate of lack of management that was missed by the domineering committee that did everything it could.
Regarding the parking of vehicles on the streets - the result of a municipality that no longer enforces from his time. In Tel Aviv there is an immediate fine, there are no vehicles on sidewalks.
It's all a question of enforcement versus turning a blind eye to be nice to all kinds of sectors and neighborhoods. The time has come for equal and strong enforcement in all of Haifa. For those who do not have a parking space - sell the car. Those who camp in the streets - to be towed and fined.
I live in a high-rise building in Allenby with an improper shelter with unusable toilets and no water. I contacted the municipality, his father Han was with us and did not fix anything, and so it remains to this day and it is clearly improper