The face of the generation as the face of the dog? What are the reasons people leave their dog feces on the street? • Opinion column
What is a person evident in?
"Rabbi Ilaei said: In three things a man is evident - in his cup, in his pocket, and in his anger" (Irovin 66, 22).
Whereas the younger me would add: A person is also evident in his selfishness ("egoist" in Lez, which according to a milog means: "a person who acts for himself without considering others.")
Sderot KKL in Kiryat Haim, a neighborhood of Kiryat Haifa, is a wide and handsome-looking pedestrian street. In its center is a wide sidewalk that has recently been restored and has become a real neighborhood gem. The center of the avenue, between the two lanes of traffic for vehicles, is paved with shiny gray cobblestones, next to a lane for cyclists made of Combined stones and marked with a white dividing line. Young and well-kept trees adorn the boulevard on both sides and between them are beds of green bushes that separate the pedestrian zone from the road.
Comfortable benches, designed trash cans, faucets designed for passers-by, walkers on two and walkers on all fours are installed along the sidewalk. There are even special facilities for dog excrement collection bags, signs requesting to collect the excrement and warning of severe punishment. The municipal employees maintain the place well, make sure to wash the sidewalk from time to time, fill the facilities with poop bags and empty the trash cans.
Really beautiful place.
Paris or Berlin or dirty…
In the afternoons of the warm spring, summer and autumn evenings, the boulevard is filled with passers-by strolling for pleasure and enjoying the pleasant breeze coming from the sea and the setting sun that casts long shadows and paints the place crimson gold. Seniors sit peacefully on the benches, young couples with baby carriages stroll slowly, toddlers rejoice at the freedom to ride their bikes unhindered, fitness enthusiasts run along the sidewalk and dog owners are often leashed to one or more of these lovable animals. All these make the place a real urban gem.
Looking from the side it is easy to think that it is no less than on a central avenue of Paris or Berlin, if it were not for a small, smelly and repulsive hazard scattered along this beautiful and well-kept avenue - dog excrement.
It is their duty to take a poop bag out of their pocket and kneel down
When I skip over the piles of dung that litter our beautiful avenue and spoil the atmosphere, I can't help but ask myself: what goes through the minds of those people who go for a walk with their beloved animal and avoid picking up its excrement? After all, they take their dog out so that it can air out, smell the smells of the street and so that it can mark territory by throwing its water, according to the genetic order inherent in it, but what must decent and law-abiding people do in the event that their dog shits?
Despite the difficulty involved in this action, it is their duty to take a poop bag out of their pocket, kneel down, collect their beloved dog's legacy and throw it into the nearest trash can. Someone will say, maybe they forgot to bring a poop bag? To respond to this type of case, the municipality went to the trouble and installed boxes containing poop bags along the boulevard.
Symptom of the egoists
The amount of feces "decorating" the boulevard and the streets of our beautiful city indicates that the lack of bags is not the real problem. This is a symptom that reflects a much deeper phenomenon, which indicates that quite a few Israelis are simply egoists, focused like babies on themselves and their needs, without a trace of consideration for others. They know that the pollution of the public space will harm their neighbors, but what do they care as long as they are not personally harmed?
If the dog of those egoists pooped on them in the middle of their living room, there is no doubt that they would rush to pick up the excrement and clean the place well, but the street is not their living room, for them it is just a space where strangers hang out.
The imagination for other ugly behaviors
Leaving dog excrement in the public domain is similar to other ugly behaviors, such as playing music at excessive decibels, parking a vehicle on the sidewalk in a way that endangers and disturbs pedestrians, throwing scraps, trash, and just food scraps outside of the trash cans, which turns our streets into cesspools, and other shameful things that we all experience on a daily basis.
A culture of disobedience to the law
There is nothing new in the fact that every person, regardless of who he is, acts first and foremost according to his personal interests, so what is the difference between the Israeli and the Scandinavian, the French, the English or the American?
It is quite clear: in the culture of disobeying the law!
Many Israelis feel that it's really okay to "corner the corner", the law in many cases for them is only a recommendation and that whoever obeys the law is just a sucker.
This insight is a clear consequence of two main factors:
The first factor is the education provided in schools and at home:
No real effort was made to instill in the consciousness of every child in Israel that consideration for others and respect for the public space, apart from being humane and solidary, are ultimately intended to serve him and those close to him. The lack of consideration for others hurts everyone. In many homes in Israel, the educational motto is: First of all, take care of yourself!
The second factor is the enforcement of existing laws:
There are quite a few laws in Israel that are supposed to protect the public space from lawbreakers and thugs, but each of us knows that the probability that a policeman or city inspector will fine the lawbreaker or prosecute him tends to zero.
The local authority elections are coming up
This is the reality in Israel and every intelligent person living here should strive to change it to make our lives more pleasant and beautiful.
How do you do that? not complicated:
On Ordinance Day, the day of elections for local authorities, it is decided who to elect based on information and common sense, and not on emotion or tribal affiliation. Even on normal days, the citizen must remain involved and active in order to spur the elected officials to act in the public interest.
In conclusion: This is the role of the state and the local authority, but it seems that because of the sensitive security situation in Israel, this matter went wrong. It's time to change.
Thanks Tzipi.
The article was written a few weeks ago. I continue to walk the place every day and nothing has changed. On the contrary, there is a feeling that it has even gotten worse. Unfortunately, the face of the generation is like the face of dog feces on the sidewalks.
Shabbat Shalom.
Excellent, accurate and unfortunate article... Everything begins and ends with education, consideration for others... How sad it is...
From Amber Heard's visit to the Holy Land.
There is nothing that must be enforced!
But if we talk about Paris along all the boulevards with the promenade in the middle of the road it stinks of dog poop. Benches play facilities for children
Everything is beautiful but the smell is terrible!
I haven't visited Paris in a long time 🙂
Street of poop in Haifa - this is Berel Katznelson Street.
Poop and the smell of urine - special features of the street near the new buildings of the Pershkovsky project.
Also in underground parking lots of buildings - the same.
Poop and urine not only on the street. Also at the entrances of new buildings.
And dog owners react with bullying and yelling if we dare to ask to be cleaned.
There is no choice to keep quiet and take a video and send it to enforcement!
Ask for a referral and delay!
It just won't help. There is no enforcement, only an inspector can do this and they only suckle salaries and especially not so fluent Hebrew speakers.
A Jewish man in Shushan, the capital - yes, let's also trade the little decency and public spaces and charge money for the ability to walk on a path attached with some trees and bushes. really well The public is invited to travel for an entrance fee - and for those who don't, there will be no parks. It seems to me that such privatization can produce the most famous crime neighborhoods in the world. The rich have gardens, and the poor climb the walls to steal property.
It's enough to put our hands in our pockets, we pay enough property tax. That the municipalities in Kiryat send out their employees to inspect and clean public areas and parks.
I like libertarians who think everything should be paid for by private initiative and then the world will be a lovely place. It is likely that you would still pay your half a million NIS tuition fees from the degree and then we would see how much you are in love with a private initiative only.
Where is this street or Kekel Avenue in Kiryat Haim?
In Kiryat Haim Mizrahit. Go to Google Maps and find out.
Thanks.
Mr. Yossi Berger, aka the writer of the aforementioned opinion column, brought us a clear example of a "public good" that the scholars of economic theory make sure to convey in their lectures every year. Other examples of public goods include the education system and public transportation, noting the tiny difference that excrement is not found Mostly in schools or on buses.
The main problem with public goods is overutilization by the residents. In the case of our business, a number of residents are using the boulevard as a place to store poop, contrary to the intention of the mayor, its planners, and its residents. Since overutilization of public goods is inherent in man, a nature that exists in every person regardless of origin or His place of residence, we should not blame the dog owners but blame those who imagined in their minds that, on this boulevard, no dog excrement would rest or be placed, even though the experience of seventy years has clearly proven just the opposite.
If the municipality really wants to establish an area designated for pedestrians, cyclists, and yoga practitioners, it should issue a tender when the concessionaire undertakes to deliver such a private product. The public is invited to walk the grounds for an entrance fee. The franchisee will ensure not only that feces are not present but that dogs are not allowed to enter. There is no discrimination in this solution, because the dog owners are not required to participate in the financing of the facility.
And if we were to eliminate other public goods, how many conflicts would separate us like the peel of garlic?
You are all talking to the wall, unfortunately. I live in the Carmel area, this phenomenon has been known here for at least 30 years. There are sidewalks and public beds here that are covered with crazy piles of dog droppings that have been accumulating for weeks and months. Inspectors come maybe once every six months for a few hours and give one fine to some old lady. This is the people and this is your country. The solidarity of the past ended more than a generation ago. Today we are all indifferent, tired behind our doors. I remember the neat and uniform buildings until the end of the 80s. There was culture and there was order and everyone's desire for a pleasant public space. Not Hutzelartz, but there was. Since then everything has been deteriorating. You see it in everything. Not just in the dirt. Lots of construction violations, each floor of the building with a different color and different windows and a ton of sloppy sewage pipes coming out of each apartment in a different location. Everything is improvised and formless. Neglected yards. Even in good neighborhoods because none of this really interests anyone anymore. Everyone has become narcissistic and closed to others and this is seen as positive and legitimate today. Taking over common gardens of land tenants. Terrible infrastructure. For example, the parking lots on Hanasi Ave have not been repaired in 30 years since the road was widened and you cannot park without stepping on crumbling paving stones. Go to Shmuel Garden and you will also see there a ruined lawn with piles of dung, including near the children's play facilities. Just one big disgust. I don't remember seeing such things in other big cities. It is also a problem that Haifaim are the most indifferent and tired people I know. I myself hung dozens of signs around the neighborhoods asking to pick up after the dogs. It helped very little for a short time. This is because there is no law here and no care on the part of the residents or the municipality. Another annoying phenomenon are owners of dangerous dogs who walk around with them without a leash and plot and laugh in my face when I warn them, at best and sometimes they also threaten and attack. We can talk about it until tomorrow, there is no caring and solidarity in our society and there is also no enforcement and it will not help or change in my opinion, it will only get worse.
By the way, in some kennels in Israel, the authorities have a dna sample of dogs with a license and it is possible to associate dung with a dog and fine the owner accordingly. I don't expect this to happen in sleepy, tired and unruly Haifa. You will feel the control when you ask for a discount that you deserve for the highest property tax in the country. The comfort of their arms is felt especially there.
Nicely written.
...and have you ever tried to enlighten the dog's owner? In the best case the reaction was "Oh, I didn't notice", in the worst case "Come on, come on, who are you to tell me what to do!"
(and we will not talk about body language and hand movements)
So I completely agree with most of the writers: education, culture, tolerance!
And Europe will not be in the near future.
Thanks. 🙂
I spent a week in a European city that we want to be like, I didn't see dog droppings and I saw thousands of dogs and owners in parks.
In that city we traveled by metro and bus dozens of times and everyone kept quiet even though it was sometimes crowded and crowded and the only time I heard people and a driver yelling on the train and bus was on the bus line from the HaCarmel beach station back home.
I really think that our entire education system has gone off the rails, including parental authority and education for politeness and consideration for others.
In a restaurant with dozens of children abroad, not a single child pulls out a cell phone and plays without headphones with explosions and this is the first thing we have seen here
In a restaurant on the beach. Of course the parents won't warn him that it disturbs all the nearby tables.
Beyond the terror, this jungle behavior is the thing that simply must be changed in the country and in homes and schools.
The Israeli children who shout and riot are the only ones who are heard in parks and museums abroad. Hence all the Neanderthal behavior of parents and children who here shout in front of each other with zero parental authority. Cringe all over again.
You are absolutely right, everything starts with education and at a young age and this applies to everything, all the problems that exist in Israelis stem from a lack of education or poor education.
Nice friends, the article is extremely accurate, very annoying, but don't forget that we are champions, the operation was successful, but the patient died
I actually traveled to Motzkin and the phenomenon there is much less severe... so the patient does not necessarily have to die after the operation.
thanks for the reply.
A correct article should also be more relevant. A person who does not pick up after his dog will be considered to have defecated on the sidewalk himself,
And that's how he should be judged. A big fine (very big, one that will hurt) and an invitation to court.
No less than that, maybe more.
The people who do not collect spoil our daily reality, pollute the public places and cause a sanitary problem.
If a small child steps on dog feces, it can easily get from the sole to his mouth, eyes or nose. If an elderly person steps on excrement their day goes completely wrong.
There is a really serious harm to the public here and the fines are given to those who park in red and white because of a parking shortage.
What does this have to do with the security situation? It's a built-in lack of culture.
The security situation is the fig leaf that the politicians in Israel use to evade their basic duty: dealing with the daily problems that shape our lives, chief among them the investment in high-level education, in education for good citizenship and social solidarity on the one hand, and law enforcement, light and severe, on the other.
The security situation is the fig leaf that the politicians in Israel use to evade their basic duty: dealing with the daily problems that shape our lives, chief among them the investment in high-level education, in education for good citizenship and social solidarity on the one hand, and law enforcement, both mild and severe, on the other.
And as for the hanging of Hashem in modern culture, there are many modern countries whose citizens are considerate of each other, even though they have all the "shameful core" you mentioned. A combination of education and enforcement will greatly reduce this phenomenon.
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And some will say that laws are meant to be broken.
You are the people of Israel who chose to be in American style, here are the side effects "poop".
The parents are not to blame for the behavior of their children over the age of 6 and that's it.
The rest is already a matter of overly permissive guys who allowed "everyone to own an iPhone".
These are permissive guys who stopped the laws of father and mother and the discipline of grandparents and prevents parents from educating in order to guide errant children.
This is a permissive society that allowed children to have cellphones everywhere and take pictures of everything the adults taught them,,, beatings in the street, a poor old man who doesn't look the best, and corpses of murder and laugh about it.
This is a company that a moment ago had a peek at the company of crazy people who chose to be in Big Brother and be more vile than their predecessors in the position.
This is a society that grew up to be when they have everything (compared to us generation 70) and feel they have nothing and are angry at the world.
And there is another great psychology to everything that happens.
But the best sums it all up "if the cedars were burned by the flame, the mosses of the wall destroy the walls".
What will children and teenagers do who grow up to see a thief member of the Knesset who goes to prison, gets released and returns to lead an entire Knesset? What will a boy say who grew up reading a free newspaper every day that is handed out at the entrance to school and where he is told lies that later become truth and reality?! .
All the best to you dog owners who get up at 4 in the morning to leave the poop in the neighbor's garden and in the middle of a street and know,,,, that when we grow old, you will grow up and build you a house as security for the rest of your life,,, you will need much more than that to "live in peace" (whatever you hate, don't do to your friend) Bye
Those who walk the dog and tie a plastic bag to the leash as if they are caring citizens and then the dog does its thing, they look to the side and if they see that there is no one around they continue and do not collect the excrement, or those who stand with their cell phones and talk to themselves and then as if they did not notice that the dog left excrement. They think that they are intellectuals. In my opinion, this is also a mistake by the municipality, you can hire undercover inspectors, you can catch a lot of them every day and make a lot of money from the fines. And above all, to deter
I walked around Kiryat Motzkin today. The situation there looks better. People in the know told me that the Arya monitors using cameras and loudspeakers in addition to the inspectors. In solids there are exactly the same citizens as in Haifa. The conclusion, enforcement, enforcement, enforcement. That's the immediate answer.
thanks for the reply.
To my great regret, I ran into such a situation and not just ran into it, but really.
I did not notice and stepped on such a bargain (exit) of a dog. I was wearing sandals and the whole foot got dirty. To tell the truth, I was so shocked that I couldn't utter a word. And how can you get into a car with a leg like that? I wrapped in a plastic bag and we drove home.
The experience was really traumatic. And to that citizen who owns the dog, I am writing, sir or madam. I'm sorry to write to you that you or you are really disgusting types.
A description that illustrates the damage that the phenomenon causes in addition to ugliness and smells. Thanks.
Interesting article, in my opinion this is a reliable report, my friend. The excrement should be emptied and not left on the sidewalk. Good night and Happy holidays
Right.
The indifference of people outside the door of their homes.
It is enough to see the filth and waste in the gardens of condominiums.
The indifference when there is no easy access to the building for pedestrians because they "want more parking".
The ugly and alienated Israeli culture is therefore also ugly and alienated towards the public environment.
The cleanliness doesn't matter to him as long as he has fun "someone else will clean up after him" this is the mentality in the parks.
Owners of dogs that urinate and shit - well, what to do with animals. Pigs - well what to do pigs.
Everything with them gets the answer "not bad, it's actually cute". "A little poopy, it's actually cute." "Some giant pigs, it's cute"
Egoistic people we all know like them and have to put up with them. create nuisance pollution, noise, lie, tease,
Pretending to be innocent - what is my dog's poop? Oh, I really didn't notice. What does the piano make? Oh, but it's cute music. Does my vehicle block the ability to pass with a stroller? Oish, then pick her up in your arms. What is the balcony for me with the barbecue making smoke in the whole building? Well, but the children are hungry. What ball games that blast the wall of the building with a resounding noise is disturbing? But the children want to play a little.
And so on. These are the Israelis.
Thanks for the comment. Let's hope that the situation will change for the benefit of all of us.