(haipo) - The residents of Masada Street are sorry for the neglect of the street, according to them, and long to see it return to its beautiful days.
Adi Perezs, who lives on the nearby Tel Hai Street, showed me Masada Street, which has both businesses and residences. Perzas was not born in Haifa, but fell in love with the city when she was a student, and decided to stay and live there. She has been fighting for the Hadar neighborhood for a decade, believing that the neighborhood has enormous potential.
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Bins are overflowing
Masada Street is a one-way street that starts from Balfour Street and reaches almost all the way to Zion Avenue. "In the mornings, many parents take their children through Mesada Street to daycares, kindergartens and schools, and then they find themselves walking with the children on the street when garbage cans are overflowing from all directions," Perezs says. "What is very serious in my view is that there are children who go to school alone, when in order to enter Masada Street, they have to cross Balfour Street, which is a very busy street. No matter how much we asked, they do not put a traffic light on the street, which would help the children cross the intersection and enter the street safely."
Buildings that stand empty
At the entrance to Masada Street there are several buildings that are partially or completely empty. "There is a building of the Technion here that stands empty, in the past they talked about the possibility of a dormitory being built there, but so far nothing has been done. It is a large area of the Technion that could have brought young people here and in this place it stands empty. Also the building that was used for years by the school in Sam" A, only partially used. In part of it, the enrichment center for the gifted operates, and the rest of the building is not used."
"When you go down a few stairs, you reach a playground," Perezs explains. "The entire descent to the playground is neglected and full of graffiti. It's really unpleasant to bring children to the kindergarten when the entrance to it looks like this. We need to clean up all the graffiti so that the kindergarten is more welcoming and pleasant."
Misery from all sides
"The street is treated as a street in a distressed neighborhood," Perezs adds. "The street is not clean, sewage flows here, everything is neglected, and the sidewalk is full of feces. One of the main problems is that the street is not washed, so it is never really clean. This street used to be Haifa's ham. I feel that misery is sprouting at us from everywhere here and this It's just a shame. The trash cans here are located in the place of a piazza that used to be on the street. There was a bench here, on which they would sit and hold events, and now there are trash cans in that place."
The road is patchwork
"The sidewalk is broken," Parzes points out, "on the sidewalk there are garbage cans and tree trimmings, which also make it difficult to walk on the sidewalk. Because the street is not washed, there is a very bad smell from the sidewalks. The road is patchy. The first part of the road has two crossings, But visibility in them is limited and children who cross the road are really putting themselves at risk, because drivers can't see them when they approach the crossing. In the other half there are no crossings at all."
A week ago our cash register was stolen
Bira Rosner, manages the Moby Dick book store:
"I am very patriotic of the street. Last week someone came in during business hours and stole our cash register. I posted on Facebook that there was nothing to be done about it, but that it sucks. Someone in response to the post wrote that Masada Street is the street of thieves and drug addicts. Many supported me and shared in the grief."
"I told that one that there are many good things here," says Rosner, "a theater, cafes and restaurants, as well as thieves and drug addicts. There were very good times here, there was a neighborhood vibe. One of the reasons I left the residence on Ben Yehuda Street, which is close to Masada Street, is that the stench and dirt directed me home. It was just terrible, and that's how it is in Masada too. Once a decade they do renovations in a playground, but when it's destroyed after a year, they don't take care of it anymore.'
"Masada concert every morning"
Rachel Chizik, owner of the "Hapina" cafe: "I have many complaints about the condition of the street. There are flowing sewers, something that always falls in the same spot, that they cannot decide who the sewer belongs to - if it is private, belongs to Carmel or the municipality. The emptying of the bins on the street is always done at problematic hours, we have a Masada concert every Day, it creates traffic jams and a commotion of beeps, because the bins are always collected when the street is at its busiest. The municipality complains that I don't put the cartons in the recycling bin, but there are no such bins! That's why I leave the cartons outside, and whoever collects the garbage gets angry."
Rachel continues: "There are holes in the sidewalk and people may get hurt, here too there is the same problem, it is not clear whether it is a private person's responsibility or a public matter. The municipality does not wash the street. Sometimes substances are sprayed on the street and it is very stressful, because it is not clear what is being sprayed and why The lighting doesn't always work here either...
And there is another problem - sometimes people come here who don't have the parking app, like Pango. In order to park, they have to go to HaNaviyim Street, where the nearest gas station is located. It really doesn't make sense."
With all the pain involved, in simple Hebrew - there is nothing to do.
Everywhere in the old cities, in the crowded streets, without a parking solution, without the possibility of free space for a garden and a playground for children - because that's what there is. This is how the city was built, this is how the neighborhood was built back in the time of the British.
Anywhere in these old areas when the ownership is private, housing prices are low, only a weak population will enter because they have nowhere to go, they have no housing solutions from either the authority or the state.
Streets that were once architectural masterpieces have become a dump.
Garbage bins will not help, nor daily cleaning, nor tidying up a small garden to calm the parents down.
We need a leader with a revolutionary vision who will take care of housing solutions for needy populations on the one hand (and yes, in another place, in another neighborhood) and take care to entice the owners of houses and apartments with innovative and revolutionary solutions in order to raise the level of housing on the street.
Neither Tama 38 nor Pinoy Binoy.
The municipality will announce that it will give an incentive to houses where small apartments will be combined, a ground floor will be demolished to provide a parking solution, apartments on the ground floor will be used for public purposes such as kindergartens and clubs and even limited commerce, yards will be reduced in favor of playgrounds, public parking lots will be built
Under the roads and under the yards of houses, it will be possible to add an apartment on the roof floor, elevators, warehouses.
The owners of the apartments must be brought to the point that they will have to work together to increase the value of the entire building because if the situation remains as it is today, the moment will not be far away when the condition of these houses will deteriorate and they will not be habitable.
These are not European stone houses for three hundred years, but cement and sand houses for seventy years.
Are there no minimum journalistic standards for articles on the website?
We are in an election period. The minimum of fairness is to state that she is a political personality who ran for the Council under an Etzioni list.
It is unfair to interview her as a concerned resident without mentioning that she is trying to raise her media profile in the run-up to the election.
Or could you link at the top of the article to the one that was on the website about her joining the Zionists:
"Itamar and Adi Perez Karpel join David Etzioni"
There is a deliberate, everyday and not at all sophisticated attempt to shape reality differently
Very sad to read the article! 😢 A street of my childhood. I studied at BSM in Masada in the 90s. I have very fond memories of that time. We loved coming with friends even on the weekend to walk near our school! 💖We had the best teachers in the world! My friends lived in Hillel and Ben Yehuda. Those were wonderful times! The problem started already then with drug addicts, unfortunately. We had some idiots who would smuggle drugs into a school with the help of their friends from outside! What have our teachers not done! Police, house arrests and what not! Since they moved the BSM to Neve, David Hadar is dead in my opinion...
Hadar, Haifa, you need a mayor, who loves the city and the population in it and the palm! 💫🙏
Well done to deploy! 👏😇
The place has been neglected for over 40 years, an attempt to build a street for young people when the municipality does nothing for years and years and the place has become a den for criminals of all kinds and many idle and failed businesses in crumbling buildings since the interviewee does not know the city from day to day but only before elections like the previous ones
So that's why she wonders about the sad situation.
Because those who have lived all their lives in the city know that this has been the case for 40 years and no mayor really bothers to restore the area and eradicate the rising crime in the city, especially in the Hadar neighborhoods
Indeed, the neglect is more visible than ever, especially in these years of an impotent, distant government that lacks urban involvement and real care from the current, unknown mayor who arrived and exists to this day, so the opinion of a foreign-born or temporary resident who probably mistakenly invested in a magnificent property and also moved in. The frustration is understandable, but her words are certainly not They will be useful for changing the situation but only for herself and it seems that the intention in the article is only for personal publicity....toward new elections that are near and coming because they haven't heard about her views during all the years of the current government so where did she suddenly appear
Masada and all the streets around it belong to the distant past. Years ago I lived there and even twenty years ago the street was neglected and the sewage flows there because the infrastructure is old and keeps getting clogged. Cockroaches and mice infest there in droves.
The buildings are old and need to be demolished because there is not enough space and it is impossible to restore. It is more expensive to restore than to destroy and build a new one. The apartments there are cheap and a poor population lives there who cannot recover. There because the rent is low and the shops are really tiny. In short, the street needs to be demolished and a building adapted to the period needs to be built.
Lots of drug addicts mainly on Tel Hai Street and Masada Drug stations are active during the day and after dark where are the police?
How will the police act if the justice system then sends everyone home with zero punishment and ridiculous plea deals?
What incentive is an office for police officers? zero.
The legal system in Israel leads to the destruction of personal security and serious harm to the citizens of the country - prioritizing the good of the criminals over the victims.
A great pleasure in Hadar
The entire Hadar neighborhood is a monument to our beautiful city. In my childhood years I studied at Remez High School (where the gifted are today). Memories of my beautiful childhood flood me every time. Such a wasted potential. Friends who come to me from Tel Aviv and abroad (where I lived until recently) do not understand what such a vast area looks like A souvenir from the 50s. Which candidate for mayor will pick up the gauntlet??
There is a lot of poop in the street and Castle Garden is a scary garden - people let scary dogs out there (Rottweiler and such) I have seen drug addicts in action there in broad daylight several times. My son is in the 4th grade and it scares me that he will go to school alone through there and there are no safe crosswalks either.. Maybe students can tolerate it but it is not a place to raise children, not fun. Soon it will be too expensive for students and only the drug addicts and the praisers will remain...
It is very very sad to read about the neglect of the municipality in the Hadar neighborhood, also the streets near Masada are very neglected and the feeling is very unpleasant for us residents.
During my childhood years in Haifa, we walked on Masada Street. Much
Hillel Street was also on the excursion route,
Balfour with the steep climb provided if
You can mark a crosswalk. Maybe a pedestrian crossing?
A lot of work for the mayor to be appointed
in the municipal elections.