During the time of the mayor Dr. Einat Kalish:
Just a few months after Ohad Segev, the CEO of the Haifa Municipality, was unexpectedly fired from his position, now also the Deputy CEO of the Municipality and head of the Human Resources Department, Zafarir Rosen, informed the mayor of his resignation. One cannot help but wonder what is really going on between the walls of the municipality and why so many senior officials have been fired or resigned in the last 3 and a half years.
Within 3 years: three CEOs, a treasurer and several heads of departments and managers
Deputy Director of Haifa Municipality, Zafarir Rosen, announced that he is resigning from his position as deputy director of the municipality after about three years. Rosen was appointed deputy director of the municipality in December 2019, three months after he was elected to the position of director of the human resources department in the municipality, a position he previously held in the municipality of Kfar Saba. Rosen, who has a rich background and extensive experience, served before coming to the municipality of Haifa as the director of the human resources and training department in the municipality of Kfar Saba grandfather. He retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel from the IDF where he held senior positions in the army's human resources system. He also worked in a secret body in senior management positions.
Rosen's announcement joins other cases in which senior officials in the municipality decided to resign and also those who were fired, even though they were elected, appointed and nominated by the mayor herself. Exactly two months ago, last April, The director general of the municipality Ohad Segev, who along the way received many praises from the mayor, received a message one clear day from the mayor about the termination of his position. It is important to note that Segev arrived at the Haifa Municipality after 16 years in which he served as CEO of the Municipality of Acre, during which he led, together with Mayor Shimon Lankeri, with great talent and professionalism, the urban revolution in the city of Acre that has taken place in recent years. Upon assuming office in the Municipality of Haifa, the mayor emphasized his success and the revolution he led in Acre. So why wasn't he given the opportunity to prove his skills in Haifa as well?
If that's not enough, in the same month (April), too Director of the Department of Roads, Traffic and Landscape at the Municipality of Haifa, Yoav Danziger, who has held the post for 10 years, sent a letter to the mayor announcing his resignation. It is important to note that Danziger presented the master plan for parking in the city less than a year ago.
in July 2021, Head of the Haifa Municipality Sea Directorate, Yohai Palzur, a directorate that did not exist before in the municipality and was established at the initiative of the mayor and his deputy, announced his resignation from his position, exactly one year after his appointment to the position. Pelzur noted that This is a mutual separation agreed upon by both parties, and in any case the position is intended for one year only.
After that, in September 2020, on New Year's Eve, the mayor fired her deputy at the time, Rabbi Dovi Chion, in the message she sent him by email.
Even before that, in January 2020 he announced Eitan Stiasni, for his resignation eleven months after he was appointed CEO of Haifa Municipality. This is just part of the list he started City Treasurer Jackie Wakim, in November 2019 when he dropped a bombshell and announced his resignation.
Vakim, He is considered the most powerful and influential person in the Haifa municipality and served as the municipality's treasurer for 20 years, while making sure to keep the city as an economically strong city. Vakim was appointed by Amram Metzna and continued when he was Yona Yahav's right-hand man. Vakim is credited with many achievements in the economic management system credited to the Haifa Municipality.
A week after Vakim's resignation, David Luria, Head of Operations at the Haifa Municipality, was unexpectedly fired by the CEO of Haifa Municipality, Eitan Shtiasni. Lahi Pa learned that Kalish's decision to fire Luria was after Luria pointed out to his employees that the resignation of the municipal treasurer, Mr. Jacky Vakim, could harm the city, for the reason that banks like stability.
In November 2018, after the mayor took office, the employment of Haifa Municipality CEO Gadi Margalit, who came to the Haifa municipality in 2016, at the request of the former mayor Yona Yahav. Margalit worked at the Government Advertising Bureau, was VP of Marketing at the Club Market chain and worked at the Adler Chomsky PR office.
"People are looking for a way out"
Veteran city council member Hadva Almog, who has served as a council member for 20 years and served for 10 years as former mayor Yona Yahav's deputy, told Lahi Fe:
I do not remember in all my years in the municipality, both as a member of the council and as the mayor's assistant, such a chaotic situation of resignations. The resignation of the senior officials in the municipality shows a trend of not being able to function in the "no management" chaos of the mayor. Also for every employee who cares about his work and livelihood on the side , there is a threshold beyond which you cannot escape and continue.
A senior employee in the municipality comes to work, create and exercise his abilities. When there is no management, there are illegitimate instructions and there is no work according to the rules of the proper manager, in the end the senior knows that he will be the mayor's scapegoat. And when the people look around and see the way of conduct, they start looking for the way out and run away from the sinking ship before it reaches the bottom. Just reading the report of the Ministry of the Interior on the financial and organizational conduct of the personnel in the municipality since the mayor came to office, is percolating and on the verge of a comprehensive inspection by the enforcement agencies in the country. Sad! Everything at the expense of the residents of the city who try to tell them stories in ceremonies. Let's be optimistic that it will end soon.
"Haifa has fallen into an impossible reality"
The chairman of the Greens of Haifa, city council member Avihu Han, told Lahi Fe:
Unfortunately, the reality that Haifa has fallen into is impossible. The city is not managed, the mayor is not functioning, in all parameters the city is in retreat and in practice the administrative factors have no control over all aspects of the city's functioning. It is my understanding that the heads of the managers who resigned and the heads of the departments realized that in this reality they could not function. It's a shame that this is the case, but in my understanding the mayor is the one who should draw conclusions, put the keys away and resign from the mayorship.
"Neuter them all"
City Council member Sharit Golan, delivered to Lahi Pa:
The reason for this wave is that it is impossible to work with the Klish and Nachshon team. They castrate, they incite and they expect "yes men". They are looking for those who worship them and not the real professionals. What they are interested in hearing is what they want and are aiming for, dropping the responsibility on others and not giving support to others, we have experienced all this as coalition members working with them on several of the senior officials in the municipality. The despair and resentment cuts across departments, across managers and positions, including people the mayor brought in herself who today realize what a mistake it was to come to the municipality under their management.
"The ship sinks and people run away"
City Council member Motti Blitzblau, gave a message to Lahi Fe:
Similar to the clichéd saying, "When the ship is about to sink, people run." As much as watching the change from Yona Yahav, so is the disappointment, and I would say even anger increases in the face of personal shortcomings. It's no secret that even before she was chosen, there were various projects that the teams that worked with her left her after a while.
The exchange of people in positions of trust, such as the CEO of the municipality, will testify that today, after more than 3 years, it is looking for the third one. The failure to deal with day-to-day problems is glaring. The failure to communicate with the central government officials echoes in all government offices, simple actions such as stopping the harassment of residents on competition nights Vehicles and motorcycles on certain routes are not resolved despite one-off operations by the police.
Dealing with the pig takeover is an example of how to hear nothing but me and me and me. We are standing about a year and four months before the end of this saga and I hope that we have all learned a lesson, because whoever comes after her should be someone who knows the municipality and the city's fundamental problems, because she left scorched earth.
And this time I will be subjective - the right person to come to this Sisyphean work is Avihu Han.
"Distrust in the mayor and her conduct"
City Council member Sophie Naksh delivered to Lahi Pa:
As far as I am concerned, the wave of departures shows the lack of trust of the city officials in the mayor and in the way it is conducted. These are many senior officials she appointed who are leaving. It turns out that not only the residents understand and see the fall and deterioration of the city, it is also the senior officials of the municipality who are leaving.
"Trying to drive a semitrailer and barely knowing how to drive a Bimba"
The mass exodus does not surprise me at all, there are a few more who will announce their departure. How can you not understand them? Everyone wants a pleasant work environment, to engage in their field without interruptions, to arrive happily at their workplace. The feeling in the corridors of the municipality is fear, fear and more fear! How can you behave like this? And in addition, the workers pay the price of the failure of the mayor and her deputy. Who is ultimately responsible? For whoever is closest to grab the slime.
City Council member Hila Lauper told Lahi Pa:
I see what is happening there, I talk to everyone, a feeling of complete chaos, despair and confusion. When the head is not functioning, the body cannot be expected to function in its place.
About two weeks ago, the deputy mayor told me that he would never speak to me again, because I told him something that was not pleasing to his ears. It indicates his human abilities, it indicates a pattern of action. Now I imagine that this is how he behaves in front of anyone who says a word he doesn't like to hear. The mayor and her deputy have power over the entire municipality of Haifa, over all its employees, and I feel that both of them have no idea how to manipulate this thing. We let them drive a semitrailer when they both know how to drive maybe a small Bimba like that of small children. And in the meantime the city is paying a heavy price, people some of whom are good and worthy are running away, I personally have conversations with employees who want to leave and I really ask that they not leave because they are important, wait a little longer and this problem will pass.
"The gap between the hope that was and the disappointment"
City Council member Yael Shanar from Haifa's Greens told Haifa:
The city is traumatized and falling apart, and I say this with great pain and out of great love and faith in Haifa. The gap between the hope that was in the air when Klish was chosen and the disappointment from her is huge. This municipality does not manage to spread barbecues in playgrounds or take care of cleanliness in the city, much less to take care of complex things such as - employment, air pollution, pigs, the condition of the roads and more.
Now, when it is clear that the ship is sinking, decent people save themselves and escape. In another year, 4 months and 22 days, this reign will end. I hope that we have learned a lesson and that Foster will not be elected next time, but Avihu Han, the chairman of the Greens - a man with a record of work, connections and skills, who can lift Haifa off the boards and return it to its rightful place.
"Live in virtual reality"
City Council member Yaakov Feingold told Lahi Pa:
As much as I try to understand Mayor Kalish's way of making decisions, I keep coming back to find that the mayor lives in a simulated and parallel reality of her own. Time after time she digs a hole for herself and manages to jump head first into it. Her inability to manage, to distinguish between the main thing to take care of and not to waste 3 years of Haifa's life on endless fights with any factor that could have helped Haifa, is simply unimaginable. The series of departures of the senior officials shows in an unequivocal way that there is no one left who agrees to work with her, unfortunately, it seems that we will have to turn off the light from the last one left.
"Tsoklish want to do everything alone"
"Tsoklish" are people without any managerial experience. The mayor needs to draw up a policy and the CEO of the municipality needs to do headquarters work and carry it out. Because Tzoklish don't trust anyone and want to do everything by themselves, without being aware that they are unable, nothing is promoted and everything is stuck and when those in positions such as CEO and VP want To initiate, so Tzoklish blocks him. In meetings with them, no summaries of discussions and decisions are issued, and no follow-up is done on the implementation of decisions, and when things are not carried out or Tzoklish forgets what the original directive was, an exchange of accusations begins, and as usual, Tzoklish is never to blame.
City Council member Eli Ben Dayan told Lahi Pa:
Here, for example, is a prominent example: if I were mayor and I had to deal with the problem of pigs - since I do not understand the subject, I would call the municipal veterinarian and instruct him to deal with the problem of pigs according to his professional judgment and I would not interfere in his way, as Tzoklish does. When the previous director general of the municipality started to thin out the pigs because this was the effective solution, it became known to Tzuklish that he was accused - no less - of murder(!), the care of the pigs was taken away from him and transferred to Mr. Tzuk! Can a normal official function like this? From personal knowledge I I tell you that the recent abandonments that have been made are not, unfortunately, the last and there will be more on the way.
I already said in one of the yeshivahs, ten cabins of wisdom descended on the world, Tzuklish are sure that they received nine...
"Not allowed to work"
City Council member Yossi Shalom told Lahi Pa:
The resignations of the city officials show the lack of trust they have in the mayor. Some of them are people who worked for years in the system and some of them left their jobs in order to come to lift up the city, and the mayor did not let them work and took away their powers.
"Nothing in the municipality is functioning"
City council member Kirill Kartnik gave a message to Haifa:
The truth is, I'm not really surprised. This is a serious and professional man (referring to Count S.E.K.) who came to work, but like others - he was not given the opportunity. The appointment is an appointment by the mayor, and from the beginning of her tenure we have witnessed her administrative failure, when she brings in people and does not let them act. This is expressed in the huge wave of people leaving, and this is even before we started talking about the employees in the municipality who are afraid to act due to the way the mayor and those around her behave. We will add that it now wants to appoint a CEO from the Arab sector, with no experience in managing a city, which will probably serve it in favor of the elections in the sector, but will not serve the municipality or the residents of the city in any way.
This municipality is paralyzed, the person who is actually signing everything today on behalf of the mayor and the CEO of the municipality is Gali Segal, the director of the mayor's office. The decisions that are made are based on personal interests, and as you can see, everything is falling apart, there is no activity managed by the municipality today that is functioning. In the future we will have to act to change and correct the injustice done here to the residents of Haifa!
It is really interesting that there is no explanation from the mayor about the reason for the surprising dismissals, and there is no voice explaining what the plan is. Not only is she not heard, there is no speaker.
Can we ask someone who will try to represent Ms. Kalish, what was her intention and what were her opinions? What are the plans and why are they not taking off? For now, she only hears her opponents, you can hear "the other side"
The fish stinks from the head and this is how the situation looks in the municipality, it's just sad. Isn't there some legal law that will make Klish resign? In light of her failure to manage the city and the massive resignation of senior officials.
A cliché and a cliff should disappear like a torch and a benet.
Two duos of destruction and destruction with no management skills.
The city council should contact Shaked immediately to advance the Haifa municipal elections to October along with the national elections.
You forgot the investigations into the alleged corruption of Vakim. 20 The man was in office...
Lol
As a senior official in the municipality, you can state in front of you that the main reason for leaving is the Community Council. which constantly threatens us with a dismissal sword that is not in her hand. Which attacks us non-stop to take revenge on the RA. Which castrates the activity and deletes budgets without thinking. To sum up: this council does not allow us to work, therefore a collection of talented and capable people are going to exhaust themselves elsewhere.
To the senior official in the municipality: the reason that Klish created 2030 is that you, the same "seniors" from the beginning, were antagonistic, you gossiped behind her back about how to torpedo this term in order to get rid of her, the election meeting with Yahav was an illegal act for which Shimshon Ido should have been fired from his position in any proper democratic regime. You created a strike when she took office, you barricaded yourself in the rooms without giving answers and you did exactly that and let's tell the truth the municipality of Haifa during Yahav's time deteriorated in every possible measure - in education measures. in construction measures. in collection indices. in financial stability indices. in transparency measures. in satisfaction measures. There is not a single measure in which you, the senior officials, have not degraded Haifa according to the Hebrews. In general, it was expected of all this great collection of losers to get up and resign after the elections, but of course you incubate there until the fat budget pension. Some of you are also not residents of Haifa, so what do you care about the situation in the city. What do you care 15 years, if the schools crumble. If the stadium road in Kiryat Haim is full of potholes. If in Hadar, 4 schools were closed during the Yahav period. If residents leave because of high property tax and low return. What do you care? Now you found someone to blame the council that was all in the coalition, saw the damage of 2030 and of a dysfunctional mayor in an even more dysfunctional municipality and decided to put an end to the circus. Wait, they still tried to fix a lot of the circus in the budget and failed. In the end there will be no choice. 400 senior department officials with directorships and a multitude of titles and zero productivity.
Because as a Jewish resident born in this city, this is how it feels to me,
And I see no problem in firing you given nothing I ever got from you.
The departure is clear why it was made, what is not clear is how it is only happening now! Klish, and Nachshon with one clear goal in advance, the failure of development and quality of life in Haifa
From the first moment of the past 100 days of grace it was clear that Haifa was becoming a ghost.
If there is nothing to steal then many want to leave, this is the only reason
Being a public figure in Haifa and also as a journalist, I have full training with the mayor of Haifa, Dr. Einat Kalish Rotem. Mrs. Kalish is trying to reduce the mother power status in her municipality and bring in people who want to work in her municipality. Well done to you Einat. Strength.
Shame and disgrace what is happening in a beautiful city like Haifa.
People wanted change, they gave their votes to the cliche and thought that the "savior" had arrived and what did we get? One big zero zero
We don't do things like the pigs...shame and shame...
Our beautiful Carmel was covered with pigs and trash instead of green….
From the checkpoint to the Zevlon police station, the road is full of potholes and it is very difficult to drive there....what will we do with the mayor....
As above, Rehovot in Haim Mizrahit, the pearl that brings money to Haifa's municipal coffers, bumpy roads. Until when?
Go outside a bit and feel the city and its surroundings in which you live
And see what the needs of the residents are. As one who voted for you
I am very very disappointed with your daily performance.
Take a tour of Bialik and K. Motzkin and see what mayors do there for their residents. Every morning they go out into the streets to sense and check what the needs of the residents there are important to them. My heart aches for the city where I was born here
And the sooner the better.
Some of the figures you mentioned here, functioned well and indeed led the city to a good place, but at the same time they abused their position, corruptions from every direction. This is not a feeling, but another look from a different angle that the media published, as you present your own facts and your own lies
In one word about a simple cliché, 'stupid' and the whole city suffers.
It's a shame that those who live here chose to censor my response about the hundreds of failures of Hadova Almog and her and Yahav's failed and nuclear management, which destroyed the city long, long before Klish. In fact, they are the reason she was chosen at all, people are simply fed up with rotting in City Hall under Yahav and Almog.
It's a shame to censor the truth. Klish only exacerbated all the problems he already inherited from the previous duo. People who failed even before a cliché resigned. It's just that her appointments are just as ridiculous and it's time for a dynamic young mayor with management skills.
Almog and Yahav were an unfortunate couple that no one expected them to do anything. From the cliché they expected, therefore the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment.
It's just sad what's happening in the Haifa municipality, everything is deteriorating. Why doesn't Kalish come to a conclusion and resign, she failed miserably, bad human relations and everything is chaos, there are enough good people who can replace her and restore the city to its greatness and repair the damage that Kalish did
It is interesting that the lady mayor has not yet resigned herself.
Such a flow of abandonment points to a crisis of confidence at the highest levels
I don't understand anything for a long time!!!!!!!! All as one, claim that the city is crumbling. And there is no savior from the outside, (because there really isn't someone strong from the inside who can end this drama) apparently. Every day that passes is to the detriment of each of us residents. And to the detriment of the municipal coffers, which is from his pockets. Woe to us. That's what I understand from the long post published today.
Hap, did you also ask for a cliché response, or one of its supporters?
All supporters, members of the commando (the few left) will respond on Facebook.