"Thousands of families were baptized for a whole month in their homes, businesses were damaged due to the lack of organization"
"The police and the municipality failed in everything related to the traffic arrangements. Thousands of cars flowed into the residential neighborhoods the crowded Thousands of families were holed up in their homes for an entire month, some residents were prevented from accessing their homes due to the blockades and dozens of businesses were damaged due to the lack of organization" • Zaatara's appeal to the municipal auditor.
The chairman of the Hadash faction in the city council, Raja Zaatara, appealed to the municipal auditor Ofer Tal, demanding to start an investigation on the "holidays" event in 2021.
A failed organization
In the letter he sent to the visitor, Zaatara writes: "Holidays" is an old and important event in Haifa, in which the values of tolerance and common life in the city are raised above a miracle. It is also an event that has the potential to strengthen business and tourism. Year after year, and especially in the past year 2021, the suffering of the residents of the Wadi Nisnas area, the German colony and the lower city increases as a result of the ongoing failures in organizing the event by the police and the municipality.
The chairman of the Hadash faction added: Although it was known a year in advance that the event would take place, the actual preparations only happened towards the month of November. Something that by all accounts damaged the quality of the organization; From year to year there is a trend of thinning out the cultural events, this is contrary to the opinion of the professionals, including the "Beit Hagafen" corporation. Something that harms the special nature of the "holiday" that has been built up over the years;
Families suffered, businesses were damaged
Zaatara continues: "The police and the municipality failed in everything related to the traffic arrangements. Thousands of cars poured into the crowded residential neighborhoods. Thousands of families were confined to their homes for an entire month while suffering the incessant nuisance of noise and car races until the wee hours of the night, and the lack of access for emergency vehicles. Some residents They were prevented from accessing their homes due to the blockades. Dozens of businesses were damaged due to the lack of organization and the traffic jams that prevented their customers from reaching them."
Complaints from residents and priests
According to him, he received complaints from residents and priests that due to the situation, many residents could not attend church masses on the eve of the holiday - "something that constitutes a serious and unreasonable violation of freedom of religion and worship." Zaatara also writes that in November he contacted the security department at the municipality and asked to bring the voice and demands of the residents regarding the organization and traffic arrangements, in view of the experience of the previous years. "Apparently, the well-being of the residents was not in front of the eyes of the captains of the event."
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It should be transferred back to the mother garden and the Carmel center. There are prepared for visitors
The mayor's decision to cancel the holiday was correct three years ago.
This is a mess that contributes nothing to the city's economy, nor to tourism. On the contrary, creates a bad reputation for disrupting holiday traditions, erasing Hanukkah, making a mockery of Christmases, cheap and ugly imitations of European traditions instead of creating something local, perhaps an attempt at Jewish assimilation, vulgarization and disrespect towards each holiday separately and all together, all in an ungraceful hinga of Sderot Moshava on In order to support a few restaurants that probably don't need this fuss either.
The residents are not besieged in the houses only there. In Carmel there are wild boars at night, and I was afraid to walk around the neighborhoods. In the lower glory, shooting battles and assassinations. On Hagana Boulevard and Lui Promenade, crazy young people from the Arab villages who come to do davins with privately imported and illegally improved luxury cars drive. In the Gan Ham area, groups of young people with explosives and vodka walking around idle and vandalizing.
Every place and its besieged. Lack of police, urban management, discipline, and law enforcement.
Zatra himself is fed by the enthusiasm of the masses. At the beginning of the term, the statue of Jesus in the museum created riots that serve the extremism of Hadash. A year later, demonstrations in support of Hamas and terrorism in the settlement, with which he has no problem of course. From there we already experienced a lynching in April of last year, burning of cars, smashing of businesses and terror in the streets by His own outlaws.. each time besieged for a different reason in the jungle city.
It's not the holidays, it's the jungle bazaar.
The film festival in the auditorium also brings crowds to the Carmel every Sukkot and creates great discomfort for the residents in the area, yet the residents manage to survive despite the great disorder!
The corona cloud in the shadow of the holidays
He occasionally has such a pleasant manner
to celebrate and make merry like this is what the Haifaites are all about
we use to call or call it the holiday
Christmas, Hanukkah and Ramadan unite together
for some reason the creators were confused the times were wrong
This year the holiday of holidays has come early
Pesach de Matzot, also Ramadan for our Muslim brothers
also Passover of Passover that began with the Feast of Palms
If that's not enough, the Prophet Shu'aib's holiday for our Druze brothers
talking about the holiday and the holidays and only talking
Because Natbg is deserted, the guest houses are empty, there are no visitors
The streets are crowded, so are the markets and malls
On the beach there is nothing to disturb, only fish, sand and waves
Schools, colleges, the spiers of academia are not gay
All this because why, because the corona attacks in a violent way
with the fear to come, and why else will the fear happen before
Most of the streets are empty and not crowded with other people.
teams with masks and loudspeakers, battalions in uniforms
A government is formed from Nain with thirty-six ministers
Clinics, MDA, medical institutions and hospitals
Angels in Laban and Shaar Tzot with our dear patients
Indeed, it is sad, gloomy and dark, but not everything we discover
suddenly we woke up that there were values that lay before
Family values, couple relationships, sisters and brothers
Call it an enclosure, or a prison, or a spare room
suddenly we discovered that there is a creator of a world in which we are remembered
"I" and "mine", in its place "we" think
with hope that wrath and pestilence will pass, truly hopeful
Today before me is tomorrow, with it the fear, the fear that is not pleasant
Because one wish remains before us, give us only the trees
celebrate the holidays with family and friends
Albert Yaakov
Unprecedented pettiness and pranks. The holiday is a Haifa attraction that has no equal in the country. The holiday of the holidays is a symbol of the possibility of living together, each one his holiday, each his own, but the joy is mixed and shared. I still believe that this is a failure on the part of the various decision makers, who did not properly organize and prepare for this amazing event.
I am a resident of Haifa, and I live not far from the center of the events, about 100 meters from the famous traffic island on Ben Gurion Blvd., yes, where the fir tree is near the menorah, and near the minaret (Alfanos)... there will be those who will complain about the traffic jams and congestion. I actually saw this as a positive sign. After a long period in which the corona suffocated the source of livelihood of many business owners in the area, now during the holidays everyone celebrated. And there is a livelihood, I have seen restaurants where dozens of people are standing in a queue waiting for their turn to enter the restaurants. Who cares? As a resident of the area, I saw this as a blessing for many. So what if I'm stuck in traffic and it's hard to get home. What I did - several times - was very simple, I parked the car where it was, returned home on foot, and got back to it later, even the next day.
A very insulting detail was seeing inspectors from the municipality come to stall owners and restaurants and punch them in the face with a report for thousands of shekels. Shame and disgrace.
Get organized, organize, be creative, and see where you can get to, the result of the holidays is only good for the residents and guests of Haifa who come to see that Haifa is truly a city of shared existence, different but not hating.
I had a feeling that this year only the Christians' Rosh Hashanah is celebrated. In the holiday of the holidays, holidays of the three religions were always celebrated: Jewish (Hanukkah), Christian (Rosh Hashanah) and Muslim (Muslims also have some kind of holiday at this time). This year there was a feeling that only Rosh Hashanah was celebrated. the civil Hanukkah celebrations were poor and it is not clear what happened to the Muslim celebration.
The Muslim holidays are moving
Every year on 11 days compared to the civil law.
so
There is no fixed date for the Muslim holidays.
Zaatra will abuse the home then we will have peace from you who needs your whole party you are inciting your people against Israel
Very true without their party it was quiet
The municipality should stop with the holidays.
Any denomination to celebrate as it wishes.
The municipality should focus on municipal supervision, cleaning and schools.
A municipality should not have museums, professional sports and such wastes for nothing.
That was also their message.
On the contrary, the main role of a municipality is to ensure high culture in the city.
Look how much Abu Dhabi and Dubai invest in museums and cultural and religious buildings and then we'll talk when millions of tourists flock to it.
I wish the municipality of Haifa would invest in museums like in a stadium that is empty 90% of the time and brings a violent crowd that contributes nothing
Apart from traffic jams in the whole area during games or such inferior street events.
Zaatra, who is making the noise? They are from your people who hang around in the German colony, so who are you complaining about?