Those who spend the nights on the beaches and promenades of Haifa and A promiscuous life at the mercy of gangs of thugs
reports: Yaron Hanan - member of the security committee of the municipality "Greens of Haifa" faction
general:
On 27/8/09 in the late evening hours, the security committee of the municipality held a beach patrol in Haifa, with the aim of taking a closer look at the problem of bullying, violence and the state of personal security on the beaches and promenades along them.
Attended: the chairman of the committee Prof. Gad Landau - the "Labor" party, Yaron Hanan from the "Haifa Greens" party and Alex Shafran from the "Haifa Beitno" party. On behalf of the municipality, the deputy director of the security department - Eddie Rosenblatt, as well as Mike Debi, Ilan Messinger and Hani Musa participated From the Beaches Division.
For some reason, not a single official from the Haifa Police and not even a senior official from the Haifa Municipality came to the tour.
The tour was held at Carmel Beach, Hecht Park and Bat Galim Promenade. Later, the committee will also tour the Kiryat Haim beach, but an overview of the situation on this beach was also presented.
Carmel Beach and Hecht Park:
Description of the violence-
1. Groups of young people mostly come from the villages and cities of the Galilee and the north, most of them from minorities and a small part from towns and villages in the north of the country and other places in the country. Groups of young people usually visit this beach and all the other Haifa beaches throughout the summer months, as will be detailed below. The main problem is on weekends and weeknights.
2. In most cases, teenagers and young adults (mostly from outside the city) who are attracted to the free atmosphere, which is so different in the big city compared to the tradition and conservatism practiced in their place of residence, arrive starting in the evening and throughout the night and the cattle reserve. The sight of young girls in revealing clothing drives their minds crazy and excites them to an extreme level and they allow themselves to harass the girls and young women who pass by, as they would not dare to do in their area of residence. The harassment is not only verbal and includes almost every night also performing obscene acts and harassment, all under the threat of beating both the girls and their companions. As a result, severe and violent provocations and threats with cold weapons often develop as a result, at a life-threatening level.
3. Generally, the entertainment of those groups, numbering dozens of young people every night, includes strong drinking and "refueling" with alcohol of all kinds until reaching a state of drunkenness and loss of control, drunkenness gives rise to the worsening of the violence.
4. Every night, in addition to the acts of violence, there is also severe vandalism that includes the destruction of showers and toilets, breaking faucets and toilets in the toilets, breaking faucets, stealing sprinklers from the lawns, spraying hateful graffiti on the walls, damaging sheds and benches, and more... Also, the vandals intentionally leave the water faucets open to waste water in large quantities. Added to this phenomenon is enormous amounts of dirt left behind by those "revelers and guests", including broken glass bottles, seed husks, bags for throwing charcoal from hookahs and barbecues on the grass and more.
5. In the event of a violent altercation in the entire coastal area, both during the working hours of the inspectors, not to mention when they finish their shift, there is no factor that can take control of the altercation and sometimes there is also no ability to warn and call forces off the coast.
6. In the coastal area there are other serious nuisances such as: the operation of barbecues and hookahs that disturb and pollute their surroundings, smoking drugs and also the sale of drugs in certain areas of the beach.
7. The situation in the undeclared area ("student beach") is even more serious than described below.
8. Between the Carmel Beach Towers and Hecht Park, a cheap and available "prostitution industry" operates year-round and in full swing, which continues every evening and throughout the night. This site is also a serious source of attraction for the young people of the Galilee and other places who come by the hundreds every night and receive sex services for a cheap fee compared to anywhere else in Israel.
9. No cameras are installed in the entire beach area and thus it is not possible to watch violent events in real time and it is not possible to record such events and create deterrence.
10. The beach is long and not fenced. The entrances to the beach area near the train station in the south and in the hotel area to the north are also not handled by the police and there is no control over those entering.
The answer given today:
1. In the Carmel Beach area, a uniformed municipal inspection force is stationed, which manages to provide a reasonable response, but only during the hours of operation - that is, until 21:00 p.m., when their shift ends. From these hours the beach is completely deserted until 06:00 in the morning! In Hecht Park - a private security force operates and the place is fenced and closed at midnight. Also, security cameras are installed in the place, but there is no manning of the supervision and control position over them.
2. The level of police presence on Carmel Beach is far from what is needed and in the opinion of all parties this is a completely unacceptable situation, in light of the daily dangers and the loss of deterrence and control in the area. It is clear that the priority given to beaches and promenades is low if at all. As a result, at night the place is simply at the mercy of criminals and the degree of sensitivity and prudence of the business owners who operate at night without any protection as well as their visitors. Reality proves that when a severe violent incident occurs, the time that passes from the moment a police car is called to its arrival is very long: between half an hour and an hour and a half (!) This is also the case in real incidents - which include stabbings and attempted murder.
3. According to all the parties, the possibility of a murder case occurring on Carmel Beach and on the beaches of Haifa and Kah in general, as happened recently at Tel Baruch Beach in Tel Aviv, is only a matter of time and relying on luck!
Bat Galim neighborhood - the boardwalk and the beach:
Description of the violence
1. The situation in the Batlig neighborhood is even worse than what was described about the Carmel beach. The characteristics of the population that comes to the place are completely similar to the young crowd that comes in groups to Carmel Beach and Kiryat Haim Beach. They arrive in noisy, violent groups, "fueled" with alcohol, accompanied by some drug dealers and joined by drunken homeless and sex offenders who regularly live there in all kinds of abandoned and neglected sites.
2. In the neighborhood, there are also phenomena of drug trafficking, car screeching, the use of loud car amplifier systems, the use of barbeques, wild and forbidden, while harming the environment, throwing filth in quantities that are difficult to describe, vandalizing private and municipal property, defecating in the yards of houses, physical threat And verbally about those who dare to ask for something from these uninvited guests, and even sexual offenses in a casual manner and without fear.
3. Unlike the Carmel Beach and Hecht Park, the Bat Galim neighborhood is home to peaceful and law-abiding residents, some of them adults and some of them couples with their children, who live right next to the problematic centers of the boardwalk and its surroundings. This population has suffered in an extreme way for a long time and for several years now they have felt the violence worsening to impossible dimensions, while the authorities and the police ignore their situation and neglect them as if they were the "backyard" of Haifa, that no one is interested in their safety and security and certainly not in the quality of their lives!
4. The level of police presence in Bat Galim is almost zero and is not noticeable at all. The municipality also does not assign inspectors to the beach and promenade in the neighborhood. The result is: abandoning the residents to the mercy of the rioters for everything and anything. The feeling that there is no law and order in the streets and promenade of Bat Galim, starting from noon until the early hours of the morning.
Kiryat Haim Beach:
Although the committee did not tour Kiryat Haim beach this time, it did hear a description of the situation from the municipal officials who operate the beach. From the above description it appears that the picture is no different at Kiryat Haim Beach than what is happening at Carmel Beach and it is even more serious and reminiscent of the situation in the Bat Galim neighborhood!
While in the other Kiryats the beach is fenced off and inspections are carried out on those who enter, on the Kiryat Haim beach the place is hacked and unfenced, there are no security cameras and there is no control over the crowd that comes to the place whose characteristics are similar to that of the other beaches of the city. This is enough to divert negative factors en masse to the Kiryat Haim beach, where the beach is broken in all directions.
The problems are the same problems as described above, in all their severity! The police presence is simply non-existent, according to the municipal authorities and residents who are suffering from the increasing wave of bullying by gangs of young people and criminal gangs.
In conclusion:
All the members of the committee were aware that this is an intolerable and unimaginable situation and must not be put up with, the government systems must recognize the existence of the problem and their responsibility to act resolutely to eradicate bullying and violence in all parts of the city including the beaches, promenades and all other places of recreation, without exception. We expect that the law and government authorities, especially the police and the municipality, will keep away from these areas those who riot and behave violently, will prohibit the drinking of alcohol in public, and will prevent the introduction of alcohol and weapons of any kind into these recreation areas. It is necessary to prohibit the use of barbecues after 23:00 p.m., to prevent the playing of music and the creation of noise near the residences, to prevent the rampage of vehicles in the nearby streets and to give peaceful and normative residents that their lives, property and safety are not abandoned and that the maintenance of public order is a candle to the feet of the decision makers in the police and the municipality at all hours of the day!
In our opinion, this is not a decree of fate and it is certainly possible to deal with the phenomenon without effort and idleness even within the framework of the existing budgets, and if it is necessary to increase them, there is no escape from doing so as required! It's just a question of a decision by both the Haifa police and the municipal administration, and they are the ones who will bear responsibility for all the results that leaving the status quo will lead to and are already evident on the ground!
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This time it ended in a miracle...
Another stabbing case on the beaches of Haifa. A citizen of his who came with his wife and children to the beach, apparently "interfered" with a gang of car thieves from stealing his new car at Dado Beach - near Stelevich
He was stabbed by the members of the gang and Bens "Rak" was seriously injured and is now hospitalized in intensive care. Later the gang tried to run over his wife and they hit her with their car, this also ended in a miracle...
Will we continue to trust in miracles?
And now ask: have the prickers been caught? Of course not, because this is not a burglary of the police commissioner's car.
As I recall, when the commissioner's car was broken into, there was no police unit left that was not involved in chasing the burglars and they were captured with maximum efficiency.
I wonder where the police cars and the city patrol were at that time?
How come the stabbers weren't caught? Not to mention the prevention of the incident and the creation of the necessary deterrence, as we were promised in the festivities at the Haifa municipality at the beginning of the bathing season!
Do you now feel safer coming to Haifa's beach with your acquaintances and relatives?
Food for thought….
Yaron Hanan
Member of the security committee of the municipality.
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The article in Haaretz newspaper - A resident of Haifa was stabbed on the beach, backwards trying to prevent a break-in to his car
The article in YNET - lynching at the beach: [url=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3927903,00.html:3g8bnyaz]"My husband who was stabbed was alone in front of five"[/ url:3g8bnyaz]
Not only did they stab, not only did they try to break into the car, not only did they continue to beat, there was also an attempt to run over and they were probably also drugged.
And where is the municipality's security patrol?
Lynch at the beach: "My husband who was stabbed was alone in front of five"
It looks like another beach lynching, which again almost ends in murder. "People in a car blocked our vehicle. My husband approached them and tried to talk to them. They were five against one. They attacked him and one of them took out a knife and stabbed my husband" - this is how Svetlana, the wife of Pavel, who was stabbed last night at the student beach in the south, recalled today (Sunday) Haifa.
After spending the night at the beach in Haifa, Pavel, Svetlana and their children encountered a group that blocked their car, according to the evidence, in an attempt to steal it. "Three ran away, the two who remained continued to try to beat him until people arrived. One of the eyewitnesses to the case, Tatiana, said: "He thought they were going to break into the car, so he went over to see what was happening. The two guys and other people in the car pushed him, shouted at him and cursed. Maybe they were drugged."
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A resident of Haifa was stabbed on the beach, backwards trying to prevent a break-in to his car
A new immigrant who was walking with his family last night at the beach was attacked by five young men in front of them. The police suspect that they tried to steal his car and were caught red-handed
A new immigrant resident of Haifa was stabbed last night during a family picnic at the beach in Haifa. Five young men, who allegedly tried to break into his car, attacked him when he tried to stop them. He was admitted to Rambam Hospital in the city in a moderate condition. The police started an investigation.
Pavel Gorbunov, who immigrated a few months ago from the former Soviet Union, spent time with his wife, infant daughter and another friend at the beach. At one point, he noticed five young men near his car and approached them. A confrontation developed between the parties and one of the young men stabbed Pavel in the chest. He was taken to Rambam Hospital in the city and his health improved during the day. The police suspect that the young men tried to break into his car, but he caught them red-handed.
"We were walking on the beach, we saw that people approached the car, my husband went to see what they were doing, and they attacked him. Other people wanted to offer help," said Svetlana, Pavel's wife. According to her, Three of the attackers got into their vehicles and crashed into her while she was running, probably trying to run her over.
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On Friday night, a mobile station with an "owl" inspection near the prostitutes' beach./Lovely.
But there are no foot (and not mounted) police patrols with sufficient frequency and presence
From Meridian to Dado. The bully gangs are rampant. And the defenseless innocent citizen has already removed his foot from the boardwalk.
The beach is deserted for disturbed young people.
It seems that the difficult scenario that the council members feared is coming true despite the security patrol
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Are there any developments or an update on the subject?
Why only on the beaches? What about the center of Carmel?
Will the establishment of the new beach patrol come up at the next council meeting?
The question is what their powers will be. If on every issue they have to call the police to provide an answer, then what's the point, that's what the residents do.
As Yaron Hanan said, this should be combined with a policeman, to monitor the beaches and the boardwalk with security cameras to record.
It is important that such a patrol operates from the beginning and at the same time also on the beaches of Dado and Kiryat Haim, not only at Bat Galim, otherwise it will simply transfer all the problems to another section of beach.
And it's also worth starting to implement a resident card for the residents of Haifa so that we can know exactly who comes from where and how much. It is possible to establish that a certain section of Bat Galim starting at a certain time at night is not allowed to enter without a city resident's card and to place security to check it just like they did in Dania
According to an advertisement in the newspaper department store At the end of the week (9.10.2009) in the article of Manola lily The municipality decided
On the establishment of a municipal police unit in Bat Galim.
The establishment of the unit was made following residents' complaints and following the meeting with residents of Bat Galim that took place a few days ago in the mayor's office.
The spokesperson of the municipality explains in the article that the unit will secure the entire area from the Navy Hospital to the Yotvata restaurant and it will consist of people who have graduated from the units
battles and will be reinforced by municipal inspectors.
It arrived in the red mail from Yaron Hanan - a member of the Green faction in Haifa
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Attached is a recording of an interview that Ami conducted in September with Goni Mardor from "Radio without a break" (103-FM-104.5) on the subject:
The violence on the beaches of Haifa.
The recording quality is average
Best regards,
Yaron Hanan
City council member
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I have an idea, and perhaps you should consider it very seriously in light of Nava's words:
Today, all traffic enters Bat Galim, on one street - the second aliyah. We were told that another entrance to the neighborhood is being promoted from the direction of the dreaded interchange, another branch that will enter through the Yatbata area. If this is true, it is possible to close the second Aliya Street after Rambam, meaning that those who arrive at the hospital will reach a dead-end road that ends at the entrance to the hospital parking lot. The entrance to the residential neighborhood and the beaches will be through the entrance from the interchange only, with the road of the second Aliya after the hospital being one-way only and will only allow another exit for the residents of Bat Galim to the Dolphin intersection. This will turn the main section of the second Aliya street into a neighborhood street and not a main street with hundreds of cars, which can be developed as a quieter tourist street.
First, I would like to thank Yaron Hanan on behalf of all residents of Bat-Galim for generations for the report and the response to solve the plight of the residents of the Bat-Galim neighborhood.
The report is true to the truth and faithfully and clearly reflects what is happening.
Yehoshua Hankin redeemed the Bat-Galim lands in the 20s of the last century, while Yona Yahav leads the liquidation sale of the neighborhood.
Bat Galim is one of the first neighborhoods of the city of Haifa, if not the oldest of them all and it has many rights.
In the neighborhood there is a hospital that most northerners "enjoy", two military bases, beaches where you can actually swim, research institutes,
A medical school, a promenade for the benefit of all the city's residents, clear and clean sea air. And not only the 5,000 residents of the neighborhood benefit from all of this.
About 30,000 people enter the neighborhood every day, whether to work, whether to be cured and visit the sick, whether to use free time, or to serve the nation!!!
There is no other neighborhood that contains six times the number of residents.
Despite this, the Haifa municipality has a continuous tradition of neglecting the neighborhood and avoiding investing in the neighborhood.
Instead of updating personnel and means for cleaning according to a key of the actual number of visitors, the personnel assigned to cleaning is insufficient
take control of the dirt. They added cleaners to us only after we shouted.
The neglect is also expressed in the failure to assign inspectors to maintain public order and law enforcement and in the absence of deterrence it is known that there is no deterrence.
Yaron Hanan described the results as accurately as possible.
The various municipal officials will not be able to claim that they did not know what was happening. Every year at the beginning of the summer we write letters and meet with those responsible and beg
to the inspectors. There were years when we accepted and it was because Yona Yahav thanked us and did us a favor because we assisted him in the election campaign in the previous term
And many residents of Bat-Galim ran for him in the streets in the hope of the long-awaited change. Even these inspectors who were assigned on weekends only until 23.00:XNUMX p.m. were not enough
And they failed to control all violators of public order. But this is also something and we said thank you. The celebrations began when the inspectors left.
In recent years we have not been assigned inspectors and the violence is increasing and increasing and the municipality is ignoring the plight of the residents. When we call 106 to complain about public order disturbances after 23.00:XNUMX PM at night, we are told that there is no supervision during these hours, and when we pressed and asked what the solution was, they told us to call the police. We called the police and they promised to send a car. And the mobile was not seen... We ping-pong between them and the lack of coordination between the municipality and the police.
Bat Galim can be neglected, because Carmel is more important. The beach neighborhoods are not important to the mayor of Dania.
See the difference in the peaceful and pleasant and well-kept Louis Promenade. No one dares to light a barbecue there, even though the place really invites it in its beauty and location. and why? Because just the beginning of a barbecue will lead to a jump and a glimpse of an inspector out of nowhere. What is forbidden in Carmel is allowed below.
On the beaches of Bat Galim and the boardwalk there are signs prohibiting mingling and just below them you can see the largest concentration of barbecues...
And it is also impossible to leave the police blameless for what happened. Residents met personally with the police headquarters
Love Tomer and her predecessors and let them know what is happening.
The answer was to assign random tours to the neighborhood which are not effective and we haven't seen walking tours here for ages.
Today there is a general threat to the police all over the country and we hope that there will be a significant change in the level of decision makers and the police will be reinforced.
However, first and foremost we place the blame for the deterioration of the situation in Yona Yahav on not responding to the rising violence. Although Yona is not in charge of the police, it is his job to demand and turn the tables so that one hair of the residents of his city is not damaged and that the police begin to function. And with that Jonah abandoned us.
The main thing is that at the entrance to Dania, the entrants are selected and all Barara (Bara-Ra?) can go down to the beach. Not long ago I was walking the streets of Manhattan in the downtown area at midnight. At each street corner there were policemen walking in pairs and the presence of mobility was increased.
The homeless people I saw a few years ago were no longer seen. Police officers stopped by suspicious people and simply asked them to see an ID card. That was enough to deter. The feeling of security was great. All this is the result of a policy that began in the days of Giuliani.
At the beginning of his term, Yahav came out with the broken windows theory of Giuliani, mayor of New York. There a revolution was made, violence was encouraged
And security returned to the streets. Conferences were held in Haifa on the background of this theory and Yona spoke and was interviewed about it.
Yona could have acted decisively and pushed for the establishment of a municipal police and increased coordination and cooperation between the municipality and the police.
It is expected of him. He received a mandate for this when he was elected mayor.
In Haifa we were left today only with Yahav's beautiful statements about what can be done and in practice nada. A huge gap between talking and doing. disappointment !!!
Regards.
Nava Carmel.
Regarding barbeques and music, in my opinion these activities should be banned at Bat Galim Promenade, they are a few meters from the residents' houses.
In other places it seems to me that the ban after 23:00 is very reasonable.
The solutions are very simple and you just need to apply:
A. Issuing resident certificates to citizens of Haifa, and collecting a parking fee from anyone who comes with a car from outside Haifa to the beach parking lots. There is no reason that tens of thousands of cars coming here will cause air pollution, noise nuisance, crowding and dirt and the cleanliness of the beach and the expenses for beach maintenance will only be paid by the citizens of Haifa.
B. A city tour that will operate all hours of the night on the beaches
third. Permanent presence of a large and active police station in Dado Beach throughout the summer season including undercover patrols in civilian clothes