"The monthly salary in the north of Haaretz is significantly lower than the national average"
"The monthly salary in the north of the country is significantly lower than the national average, and the rate of hospital beds in the north is the lowest in the country. Correcting the existing situation requires changing the national priorities and increasing budgets on the part of the state," said Dr. Shlomo Ness, chairman of the "Economic Forum for the Promotion of Haifa and the North."
"The local leadership is blocking us"
Naama Lazimi, the Haifa Knesset member who won the top of the Labor Party, She said at the conference that she is committed to the development of the Haifa region and the north, and that Merav Michaeli, chairman of the Labor Party and Minister of Transportation, promised her a lot for the northern metropolis, and unfortunately, the local leadership is blocking all initiatives for promotion, which is a huge mistake: "There should be a mutual relationship between the government and the leadership The local, looking at the citizen, is the service to the public that the municipality must be committed to. For example, the cable car that got stuck because of Form 4 is an illustration of what is happening in Haifa, millions invested in a means of transportation that could serve as a tourist anchor for the weekends and is currently a big miss."
"We have severe criticism of everything that has been happening in Haifa in recent years"
"About two and a half years ago - there was no state budget, there was governmental anarchy and little marketing that caused an increase in prices, but this year we will reach close to 100,000 land marketings and construction starts. There is momentum in the periphery and great demand in the north of the country - but Haifa specifically is a painful event in the field of construction, and we have A harsh criticism of everything that has been happening in Haifa in recent years. It has the potential for urban renewal, I see at what rate other cities are realizing the potential, and in Haifa it is not happening," said Zeev Elkin, Minister of Construction and Housing.
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The Economic Forum for the Promotion of Haifa and the North
The words were said at a special conference that took place today at the "Dan Carmel" hotel in Haifa at the initiative of the "Economic Forum for the Promotion of Haifa and the North", under the title "The elections for the 25th Knesset are coming: how do you develop and promote the Haifa and the North region?". The conference was attended by the Minister of Construction and Housing MK Zeev Elkin (state camp), former minister and MK Eli Cohen (Likud), MK Tatiana Mazarsky (Yesh Atid), MK Ofir Sofer (religious Zionism), MK Yanon Azoulai (Shas), MK Naama Lazimi (Avoda), MK Sharon Rufa-Ofir (Israel Beitno), MK Orna Shtrakman (Hayehudi) and more.
Former Minister and MK Eli Cohen (Likud):
"If there is no sharp change, we are heading for a very problematic economic period. Citizens' pockets are emptying, and the state coffers have a surplus of NIS 33 billion. We will freeze the prices of electricity, water and property tax until the end of 2023. In addition, we will lower the VAT by one percent every year, up to the European level of 12%. The money is in the budget, and we just need to use it."
Dr. Shlomo Ness, chairman of the Economic Forum for the Promotion of Haifa and the North", attorney (CPA) and senior founding partner of the attorney firm Doron, Tykotsky, Kantor, Gutman, Ness, Amit Gross & Co. (representative of the largest law firm operating in the Northern District): "The current situation constitutes economic discrimination under the auspices The disparities are of course also expressed in numbers; the average monthly salary in the Northern District is NIS 8,026 - 16.7% lower than the average monthly salary in Israel and 27.8% lower than the salary in the Central District (Knesset Information and Research Center data). In addition, in the State Comptroller's report, it was found that in 2019 - the rate of general hospitalization beds in the Northern District per 1,000 people was 1.5, the lowest; and these are only two representative examples. Correcting the existing situation requires changing the national priorities and increasing budgets on the part of the state. Therefore, Just before the elections, we found it appropriate to hold a special gathering of the forum with the representatives of the parties and to hear from them how a different reality can be created in the north of the country."
Ofir Shik, Deputy Head of the Lower Galilee Council and Chairman of the Lev organization in the Galilee: "We have been trying to promote plans for the development of the north with the Israeli government for many years, to no avail, and this creates significant economic gaps. The Israeli government should promote the law for the development of the Galilee, which will bring in real additional money - about NIS 2 billion by 2030. This way we can close the health gaps, improve public transportation and more."
About the forum:
Israel is currently divided into seven districts, with over 2.5 million citizens living in the Northern District and Haifa District alone. There is no doubt that the north of the country is an area of the highest strategic importance as far as the State of Israel is concerned. Despite the size and importance of these districts, and even though the State of Israel and its leaders have a clear interest in developing and promoting the region, the data show that in recent years the northern region has been relegated to a low place in the order of national priorities and in the distribution of budgets.
In order to improve the situation, last March Dr. Shlomo Ness announced the establishment of a special body to be called the "Economic Forum for the Promotion of Haifa and the North". Ness, one of the top lawyers in Israel and the one who headed the "Ness Forum for Saving the Economy" during the first wave of the Corona virus, submitted his recommendations to Ra. M. and the Minister of Economy at the time, serves as the chairman of the new forum, when the initiative was joined by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Haifa and the North, the Kibbutz Industry Association, the Association of Manufacturers in Israel, the business sectors, heads of councils and cities and other factors.
The main purpose of the forum is to help and look for ways to help promote the Haifa and North districts, to be a partner in work processes and to assist the government authorities in promoting the policy and to help the economic and business development and to bring about the growth of the entire region, all this while cooperating with all the relevant factors operating at the public, governmental and municipal level.
Among the projects that the forum intends to promote: proactively encourage and develop existing and new employment centers in Haifa and the north, while emphasizing the hi-tech, food-tech and bio-tech industries; establish a large international airport that will allow flights throughout Europe, and will add about 10,000 jobs; cause the establishment of government bodies and central state institutions in the north, or move existing organizations to the north; to expand the worlds of culture, education, science and cuisine in Haifa and the north, in a way that will also cause young people to move the center of their lives to the north of the country; to give benefits and reduce regulation and bureaucratic barriers that in some cases currently prevent leading businesses from coming; invest in infrastructure and transportation; to take advantage of the enormous tourism potential in the north, which has not been realized for many years; add budgets and raise the standard of living in the north; to strengthen internal security and the sense of personal security of the residents of the north; find a real solution that will allow the reduction of environmental pollution in the Gulf region; and more.
For Zimi, you and your ministers for transportation and internal security have done nothing for Haifa and the north, on the contrary, you have submitted to the dictates of some small council leaders from the Jezreel Valley regarding an international airport. The failed Omer Bar Lev will not increase policing in Haifa despite all the problems and serious crime.
You missed a point. In the lost party, they are only promoting Haffa backwards. The entire top of the party is from Tel Aviv and only cares about Tel Aviv.
There is a place in Haifa that is the airport, it could have been turned into an international port that would have brought thousands of jobs to the city of Haifa and the surrounding area with fat salaries, but MK Katz of the Likud and the Likud hate the city and are doing everything to make Haifa the dumping ground of the country with its refineries and petrochemicals and without an airport and its residents The North will travel 3 hours to Netbag and be suffocated by Gush Dan's traffic jams instead of a Knesset rally, and the stupid residents of Haifa continue to vote for Likud.
So to say that there is no MK in a real place in the Knesset - makes you a fool, not the voters.
Choose what appeals to you and rest for four years with the result that the rest of the people chose.
You can continue to initiate in the dream.
Cups of spirit are more helpful to the dead than your projects are to the resident of Haifa