Haifa is an older city with a high percentage of senior citizens nearby. The senior citizens are one of the cornerstones of the city. They established the country, fought for it, built Haifa, developed and contributed a lot and it is our duty to repay them for that and provide them with the maximum possible services they deserve.
In the last 20 years, the Haifa municipality ignored and neglected them, both during the Yahav period and during the Kalish period. As the next mayor I intend to put an end to this and change the existing situation from the ground up
These are the main points of the Han program for senior citizens:
- Establishing a Senior Citizens Authority: The Senior Citizens Authority will promote and include all the aspects in which the municipality helps the elderly. Starting with a single address for veterans for all their needs from the municipality, needs mapping, vacation and leisure culture and in addition dedicated care for single and urban senior citizens and those in need of medical assistance. I will establish a dedicated call center for the senior citizens in the city, which includes professionals to provide a range of solutions for the needs of the senior residents in Haifa. Expanding the activities of the various associations and creating "hot houses" for the purpose of assistance in realizing rights and needs.
- A long-time resident of Haifa: We will immediately issue a senior resident card in Haifa, which will buy the senior citizen benefits - both for plays, cultural events, recreation and leisure, free parking throughout the city and more. There is no reason for a senior citizen to pay a fortune a year for parking in his city of residence.
- Senior citizens for the community: We will run a broad program "senior citizens for the community" and as part of it we will integrate senior citizens in educational activities, which include assistance to children who need it, especially in the subjects of mathematics, physics, English and computers.
- Senior citizens for the development of the city: We will operate a holistic assistance program of veteran volunteers with abilities in various fields (business, technology, education, etc.).
- Resilience plan for the Ariri citizen: Special care for senior citizens of Ariri: We must not get into a situation where Ariri citizens will die alone in their home and we will know about it two months or more late. We will lead a broad holistic solution that combines municipal employees from the welfare system and the educational system, i.e. the school children, as part of the educational commitment, and good citizens who want and are able to act and help in favor of a welfare framework for urban veterans. Activating smart technological measures such as digital water clocks that will report on the water consumption of senior citizens and thus make sure that they are active in their homes.
- Program to support the family members of the senior citizen: I will implement a broad program to support the senior citizen's family members, including escort, and support groups, workshops, rights, etc.
"do not throw me out when I turn old"
The program for the city's veterans was written after consultation with experts in the field of the third age and in light of the accumulated experience and knowledge. As I have already said, the city's veterans have many rights and we are obliged to make available to them all possible apartments in consideration of "don't throw me away in old age".
We are exposed almost every month to Ariri senior citizens who died alone in their homes and whose rotting bodies are discovered weeks and months later.
The impression one gets is that nothing is being done, the mayor is ignoring, the welfare department is busy with many tasks and there is no actual body that manages this field. It is necessary to overhaul systems both in the approach to the care of the senior citizen and in the implementation of the principle that an elderly person will not die alone in his home!
"Adoption and Care of the Ariri Elderly" Project
In February of this year, I submitted a proposal to the city council: the establishment of the project "Adopt and care for the elderly elderly". The purpose of my proposal to order was to build a project with an applied manager to care for the urban elderly in the city, and to implement both technological solutions and logistical and human solutions:
- Installation of electronic water meters that are controlled and read remotely to monitor the water consumption of the elderly. The urban corporation 'Mi Carmel' promotes solutions in this area and I recommended giving priority to installation in the homes of urban senior citizens.
- To connect the schools and the students as part of their educational commitment, when each student will be responsible for 2-3 adult seniors and it is his responsibility to establish contact with them on a daily basis, a process that is important both from the human aspect and from the aspect of saving lives.
- Third aspect - in addition to the students, to activate a volunteer unit "Elderly Elderly Volunteers" who will operate on the same principle as the students' activities.
- A projector is required to schedule and manage the overall system and I suggested that we prepare an appropriate budget to be approved by the finance committee for managing and handling the issue in a serious manner.
- A report on the subject will be delivered by the mayor at the city council meeting once every three months.
It is not possible that in 2023, Arariim senior citizens will still die in their homes alone. It is terrible. The third largest city in the country must not allow such a reality.
In order to carry out the program for the senior citizens, I need you with me. This time they choose correctly, they choose Avihu Han for mayor and the Greens for the council.
Where is the reference to other age groups - children, teenagers, young couples
Where are city-wide issues - air pollution, open spaces, public participation in decision-making
I'm sorry I don't believe the promises of all those who want to be the mayor of Haifa to share these and other promises before the elections, everyone knows, but when they were elected they forgot their promises. Since I am a native of Haifa, I only remember one mayor who did a lot for the city and its residents. Father Khushi, the late In the morning the Nablus walks around the streets to see what's wrong. And fixes it. None of the mayors came after him. They set up a public complaints section. You turned to them and got an answer after two years. I have proof. None of the mayors took care of the lonely old people who don't have families. But to raise the property tax every year even though in Haifa it is the most expensive compared to other cities.
Hello Shulamit, thank you for your response to my words. The news deals with benefits for retirees without any financial distinction and I have responded to all of them. Regarding the greens and urban renewal, in my opinion you are wrong and it is precisely the green factions throughout the country and especially in Haifa who are pushing for urban renewal of old existing neighborhoods and existing infrastructures in the city centers instead of sprawling construction, of new neighborhoods that harm wadi areas and open spaces on the outskirts of the cities and thus create a creeping sprawl trend. But the Greens, and rightly so, are interested in holistically taking care of a renewed environment: renewal is not just dense and ugly contractor stampede like we experienced in Haifa on Habiva Reich Street. The renewal should provide good living conditions, infrastructure, public buildings, public transportation, safe roads and parks for the hundreds of additional residents in those buildings that are renovated. It is not wise to add 1600 residents and 700 additional vehicles to the estate and say 'get it right' with zero addition of gardens, parks, bus lines and when there is no community center in the neighborhoods and there are no large supermarkets and the neighborhood park with a queue of children for each facility, etc.
Academic renewal, of course, must happen in all the neighborhoods in Haifa, but with organized plans, with the preservation of historical buildings, and with reasonable density. And this is why his father and the Greens are fighting well in the committees.
I don't know why they don't want to receive my answer. They say I sent it once, but that's not true. I hope you don't continue like this even while drinking, mayor. It's not right. This is how you act when you're not satisfied. Who's the answer? I never wrote to you. You'll also face the old people's property tax, because it's a lot of money, maybe you can reduce it a little. It's not nice what you did. I'm starting to feel like I'm not being counted.
I want to vote for you, and I wanted to start. I'm old myself, and I'm happy to have a mayor who also deals with us. I hope it took place because in Israel, they promise a lot, but in the end they start to forget. What I'm asking is that you also look at our property tax. It's a lot of money, and maybe you can reduce it a bit. Thank you very much for all your plans for the elderly, and good luck in realizing them.
Things to do Thank you very much Eyal.
A substantial separation should be made between well-established senior citizens, even very rich ones. And senior citizens whose economic and social situation is difficult and do not receive the assistance they need, the Haifa municipality throws them to non-profit organizations.
What is really needed is not a senior citizen certificate that will give discounts to millionaire retirees who receive a pension double the salaries of a young family. This deepens gaps, and also does not take care of senior citizens whose economic situation is bad and who do not go to plays or cafes but save on food, medicine and heating and cooling.
I support his father for mayor, but his plan and that of others does not make the diagnosis and separation based on economic status. In Haifa, 23 percent are pensioners, and giving extreme discounts to everyone without economic distinction will only worsen Haifa's economic situation. If we talk about the solidarity of the society towards the poor elderly - where is the solidarity of the pensioners based in the city towards their friends? Have millionaire retirees who change cars every few years and travel the world, have they thought of setting up a fund of retirees for retirees?
That's why I think your plan, Father, needs a rethink.
The municipal attorney must also stop referring to non-profit organizations and rolling up their sleeves. It is possible to locate urban pensioners, pensioners in a poor financial situation, and those who have difficulty functioning for all kinds of reasons and provide one-on-one care to those who need it most. Provide benefits based on pensions to 23% of the city's population - the pensioner Yona Yahav from Dania or the pensioner Yaakov Borovsky from Ramat Hatshebi or the pensioner Shmoelik Galbhart from Carmelia, or the pensioner Israel Savion or the pensioner Hadva Almog and all tens of thousands of their rich and orderly friends, believe me, they don't need discounts on coffee and shows.
These discounts are needed by tens of thousands of young families who find it difficult to survive with mortgages that have increased by thousands of shekels. Instead of a pensioner card, take care of pensioners who yearn for welfare services, and make a young family card with significant discounts that will bring young families to Haifa.
Things to do Thank you very much Eyal.
Eyal wrote correct things, there are many rich old people in Haifa who do not need help alongside really poor and weak elderly people.
But actually the Greens' preoccupation with this issue is a populist spin to escape from Haifa's main problem: the lack of urban renewal and the granting of building permits.
Haifa by any measure is one of the worst places in Israel, certainly among the big cities. The Greens themselves are chronic opponents of building and regeneration plans
If Haifa does not renew itself and does not attract young couples, including Jews, it is going in a bad direction.
It should be noted that, unlike in the past, the new apartments in Haifa are sold quickly (with the possible exception of the expensive penthouses that are being built)
The city wants to wake up, its bad mayors are stopping its development. In my opinion, the greens are the worst option for Haifa.
Clarification The Greens are chronically opposed to construction and urban renewal, referring to their environmental/green reasons, for example the article in Haifa News in relation to their application to the court "to enforce the local building committee to stop approving an apparently ill-conceived project that harms the urban space, for example to the opposition or the change in the construction of a residential unit in Stella Maris in the base Rye, for example petitions against cutting down trees in some Tama compounds
Avihu Han - will be the mayor in two months.
Well done to the team
Poor Haifa asked its candidates for mayor
The sleeping beauty who wants a young and ambitious knight with young blood gets a different sleepy grandfather Geppetto every time...
For your information, some of the best and most successful mayors were adults such as: Chits, Huldai, Goral and more. Older age provides experience that young mayors simply do not have.
The legendary parable I wrote down refers to the city of Haifa, which is also a city whose population is very old and needs, in my opinion, a young mayor and not elderly candidates of retirement age.
The use of the cartoon characters was humorous and not to insult the candidates due to their advanced age.
Being green does not mean stopping "urban renewal". They don't come to "repair" a single 75-year-old building, but take care at a neighborhood level. When the treatment indicates a neighborhood (see Mahane David) - the economic aspect will be clear to any entrepreneur who would like to come to Haifa. Regarding the treatment of 71000 Haifa graduates ((and not 55000 as was claimed to be presented by another candidate based on incorrect data)) - action must definitely be taken according to the principles in the green plan, because others are "green" with envy, regarding the contents of the presented consideration. The respondents in the response that they take care of trifles, like that physically large and great "strategist" in his own eyes, try to dwarf plans, but understand community affairs like a sardine in raspberry juice... of course it is possible to specify more, and in contrast to the impotence of the "retiree lobby" for decades, now it is possible to do More. No longer a collection of cliché murmurers as Ahithophel's advisors and Yahav's team, but freshness of thinking and abilities. Greens plus.
You wrote to the point, it was interesting to read, thank you!
Go for the easy case.
Haifa needs construction and urban renewal, the greens in my opinion will leave the city old with state buildings that are not renewed.
If until now the mayors of Haifa have failed in everything related to urban renewal with the greens, in my opinion there is not even a faint hope in this matter.
Candidates who come to protests against the legal reform probably have no other advantage to offer and they "burn" the cooperation with the current government.
More than I take care of myself, I take care of my grandchildren. I see his father at almost every demonstration and I am convinced that he also cares for them.
Adopting the senior citizens and caring for them is a very nice gesture.
What is this old lady's name? whatever... his father forgot or didn't ask at all, but she more or less succeeded in reciting.
Finally a serious treatment of the important issue.
Vote for his father - the proud mayor!
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Well done and good luck!!!
Thank you very much father.
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