"You can't manage a city from the mayor's office, you have to go out to meet the residents and see the city"
His father Han, Deputy Mayor And the chairman of Haifa's Green faction, is disappointed with the condition of the Hadar neighborhood. He points an accusing finger at the mayor, Einat Kalish Rotem, who he claims should get out of her office and walk around Hadar. Han: "This is the only way to return Hadar to Hadar, and Hadar should return to being the center of the city The municipality does not respond to claims by council members.
Each and his glory
Anyone who grew up in Haifa can tell about his Hadar. In the 50s and 60s it was the luxury neighborhood of the city. Those who were financially successful and wanted to ensure a good life for their family moved from the lower city and Mavadi Salib to the Hadar neighborhood. Everything was new, the best schools were concentrated here and splendor flourished.
In the 80s, the Zohra people of Hadar and residents began to fill en masse neighborhoods such as Neve Shanan, Ramot Ramez, and to a very small extent, also the luxury neighborhoods of Dania, Ramat Golda and Ramat Eshkol.
The commercial center of Haifa
The first shopping malls in the city were established - Panorama and Horeb Center. And yet, every boy or girl who grew up in Haifa in the 80s, can tell about Hadar as a place to go shopping: clothes, shoes, Schmonches and more.
In recent years Hadar has undergone such processes that do not allow it to continue being the commercial center of the city. First, about 20 years ago, with the opening of the Grand Canyon, the bus and taxi lines in Hadar changed their route and the location of the stations for various reasons, so that today, from any point in the city you can get to the Grand Canyon, but not to Hadar. 30 years ago from any point in the city you could take a bus to Herzl and Halutz Streets and if you wanted something more luxurious you could go to Yona Street and shop at one of the places in Mishvir for Consumers.
Love Hadar
Also to the deputy mayor on behalf of the Green faction Avihu Han, has its citrus. "The Hadar neighborhood is very important to me," Han says in a conversation with a Hai Fe reporter, "I have memories from there. My family immigrated to Israel in 1935 and we bought shops on Sirkin Street, near the market. Then my grandmother had stalls in the Talpiot market. As a child I really liked helping those stalls You can believe me when I say that I love Hadar and especially everything related to the Talpiot and Sirkin markets."
no parking
Like any resident who loves Hadar and has his eyes in his head, it is clear to Han that there are several steps that need to be taken immediately in order to return Hadar to Hadar. "First, we need to develop the business system in Hadar, which is in difficulties. I would like to see urban initiatives to promote the business owners in the area. If there were art, culture and food fairs, it would give Hadar a push. And no less important, we must create parking solutions in Hadar, which do not exist today Residents don't want to go down to Hadar, because they didn't go down without their private car and the chance of finding parking in Hadar in the middle of the day is not high."
Personal security in the neighborhood
Hahn emphasizes that Hadar needs to maintain its uniqueness. "In the Hadar neighborhood there are unique Bauhaus-style houses, which are in danger. These houses need to be preserved and at the same time invested in the dilapidated infrastructure in Hadar. Another major problem is the lack of personal security of the residents in the neighborhood due to the violence, when the solution must be combined with the Israel Police. Until the families in Hadar do not have Personal security, the neighborhood will not progress."
Wild West incarnate
"Hadar needs to change phase," Han emphasizes, "and return to being a bustling neighborhood with orderly security, night lighting, investment in infrastructure, food fairs, creativity, and only then will we be able to produce something else in the neighborhood. Now the neighborhood is neglected, with no investments from the municipal authority, and no recruits Government budgets. The neighborhood is fading and this needs to be changed. A few days ago we did a grand tour of Yalaj, Brasilai, Hashomer and Kishon streets and I was amazed at the total neglect of the Haifa municipality in this area. No street lighting, no cleanliness, weeds everywhere. Drug dealers' booths on every corner, no enforcement, no police, wild west incarnate. This needs to be changed."
manage the city from the office
Han points an accusing finger at the mayor, Einat Kalish Rotem. "It is impossible to sit on the 2nd floor at 14 Hassan Shukri St. in the city hall and manage the city from the office. If you don't move around, you don't understand the city's hardships and needs. Under this principle, I call on the mayor to meet the city and the residents and return the glory to the glory."
It should be noted that the municipality refused to respond to the article, as they do not respond to the claims of council members. Not to be attributed, it is claimed by the municipality that the mayor makes several tours a month in Hadar and is well aware of the neighborhood's condition.
benches
In addition, during the days when Klish sat in the opposition, she herself pointed an accusing finger at the mayor at the time - Yona Yahav, and claimed that the neglect of Hadar was a result of his neglect of the neighborhood (even though Yahav, in many of his speeches, used to mention his connection to Hadar, as a child he grew up in the neighborhood). Klish repeated and said, over and over again, that when she is mayor, the neighborhood will look different. In practice, the only change pointed to by residents of Hadar is the fact that the mayor's advisor Orna Angel came to the neighborhood to see its needs and added a number of wooden benches, which residents claim prevented the closing of cafes on Masada Street.
Dirty, violent and dark
Other residents talk about damage to the old cafe (established in the 60s of the last century on Hanaviim Street), which before the appearance of the benches would take tables out into the square, and today, because of the benches, can no longer do so. One way or another, the Hadar neighborhood of Klish is dirty, violent and dark. During Yahav's time there were at least street parties and the neighborhood attracted revelers from all over the city. Today there is not even that, because Klish does not believe that the role of the municipality is to "provide entertainment for the residents".
It is enough to see the nearby municipal building...
A building in a dilapidated condition is crumbling and neglected, a building for preservation that the municipality does nothing to restore and many other buildings for preservation that are a historical asset to the city and the municipality in its conduct turns them into drug dens. After all, it is clear that this is all talk and the Hadar neighborhood will remain as it is...
"The fish stinks from the head"
It's amazing how you can even describe how a city can look like that.
Whoever turns around, goes into shock. It is impossible to describe how people even live in such a neglected place!
The municipality does not care a millimeter. Not from now, but for decades!
Carved to the bone!
My Beloved Haifa is a book of praise for what the Hadar neighborhood once was, describing the magical atmosphere of the city and its residents immediately before and after the establishment of the state. This is Haifa that we all miss, but it is gone, and after 40 years of absence we were shocked to see the squalor, dirt and neglect everywhere, including in Carmel and the estate.
My heart aches for my grandchildren who have to grow up in our city which is now simply, ugly in every sense...
Yona Yahav, unfortunately, is remembered for her infamy more than any other mayor. compulsively honor-seeking. Sick of signs glorifying him and his work.
If you continue to be beautiful as required by the comfort of the followers so that you are not significant, these are subject to the comfort regulations that are imposed on you and that means. To speak the "truth" within the limits of flattery to them, God forbid they will arrest you for humiliation, insult and profanity!!!! And not a real transparent one who would compel the celebrated mayoress to get out of Julius Caesar's four-poster bed and maybe do a good deed. God forbid...
Hadar was the Israeli romantic place... Paris... Champs Elysees... Moulin Rouge. Joyful romance, colorfulness, brotherhood.
It has become a dead city where only the traffic jams, the matronly bus lanes that almost most of the time only encourage suffering and traffic jams are ruled by wild pigs and a mayor who celebrates by letting us have a wide continuous strip.
Keep crying and howling citizens and eat straw. Or raise your head. This is our city. Free her from the evil approacher and she will perhaps return with a joint effort to the respect she deserves
Hadar is already at the bottom of the ladder, but the phenomenon is spreading to other neighborhoods. At the moment she climbed to the center of Carmel, which became the Kasbah of the city, and the next step is the center of Horeb. you have been warned.
As a native of Sirkin St. in the 50s, I can identify with you. Creative thinking is needed on how to make the street an attractive site. There are countless examples of how the problem was dealt with. Attracting young couples. Reasonable rents. Preservation of building facades. Galleries, cafes, restaurants, and more
The entire municipality including the mayor is constantly on tours in Hadar. And everyone has good will. The problem is probably different.
One who lives on Halutz Street, corner of the Prophets, maybe it's time, instead of talking from above, to start creating and acting at the same time, mandatory lighting, trash and cleaning the streets is absolutely mandatory, the pollution is at its peak and it really shouldn't be like this small actions that will bring changes.
Hadar was once a neighborhood.
That's where all the Bohemians of that time lived.
Hadar was destroyed over the years because those who could left for Carmel.
So far so good or do I have to repeat the lyrics in the next verse?
Silence from Maggalit, you are not stating a fact or from Shioa Hagitz, be quiet with yourself.
It is very lucky that there is only one such that it is mandatory to remove her from the position of the city authority
turned Haifa into a huge zoo
And a huge dump
There is no corner in Haifa that was not completely destroyed and slaughtered
Just a complete failure of city management
The city is dirty. I walked around the street of Jerusalem and my heart really hurt. Father Khushi's city, the street of Father Khushi, who taught us not to throw a piece of paper in the street, everything is neglected and dirty.
It's a shame that dogs defecate in the streets of Hadar in Haifa.
We must invest in the Hadar neighborhood in Haifa, we must invest in its infrastructure such as: lighting, roads, comprehensive cleaning of all the streets in Hadar, layering of guides and also for the dogs to defecate on the streets of Hadar. Thank you
i lived in haifa from the 1946 till the 1960.first i lived in masada st,i think it was 9,masada street,then 110 arlozerov street,and then 56 hillel street.i love haifa,i think it is a beautiful city, almost every saturday me and my friends used to walk to the bahai garden,or go to the carmel,migrash ha'ma'cha'not to pick some flowers,i had a great childhood and many,many great memories.it hurts to hear and see pictures of what became of haifa. please take care and make sure she returns to her beauty.
Haifa is over, no one cares about it, it will become a city of violence and drugs and it will go to the rich of the estate. Hedar is just the promo.
Before the elections, she walked around a lot. After the elections it's a different story