Happy New Year of Haifa - this is what it will really look like • Opinion column

1. What an absurd idea, God forbid, to have shops and cafes under buildings that will block our parking, drive wildly down the street, smoke hookahs under the building, get dirty and make noise?
   Commercial and entertainment stores that will remain in the lower city.

2. With all due respect, how can there not be gunshot wounds in Rambam if most of the shootings are from the sector and Haifa and the north change their face and become involved year by year and there is no law or status quo that will maintain the local character in the city which will be homogeneous neighborhoods. The Jewish cities and neighborhoods are broken and on the other hand in the Arab cities we are not allowed to shop in them apartments and living.
   Will young people find work here and stay? There are many jobs in the north, but today's young people do not want to work as production workers, in the supermarket, in industry, in nursing, in hotels, and why? Probably because the work is hard for them and the salary there is usually around NIS 6500 and most of them want to get rich quickly and work cleanly in law, mediation, high-tech, journalism...
   If tourists come to the city en masse like in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, then the real estate will rise to such proportions that it is doubtful if the young people will be able to rent/buy an apartment in the city and the traffic jams in the city will be unbearable. Is such a thing necessary?
   Do the residents really want to have a cafe under the house? Or demonstrations every week in the street? In my opinion, most residents would prefer the cafe at the end of the second street, and the demonstrations in another city.
   Yes, we all agree about urban renewal, but that the developers want multiples of 5 units in the evacuation of buildings and the municipality hardly issues permits for questions about how thousands of buildings that urgently need renewal will be renewed here.
   Well, I think it's easiest to solve the problem of pigs and bins, you just have to make a decision. For that, bringing back a failed mayor who leads in all the polls is unwise to say the least.
   Happy New Year
   And thank you for allowing the public and the news to comment on this site.

3. I loved...❤️
   I really wish it would be 🙏
   Happy and blessed New Year to the residents of Haifa and the citizens of Israel! 🌺

   Because the time has really come...

4. 'Wow, remember when the whole neighborhood used to blow up cars?' said a high school student when he saw me park a rental car in the parking lot, a sight that had become rare. Well, I haven't been in 20 years and things have changed, in the evening I will return the car, it is not really needed. They were waiting on a bench near Gan Yiftach on Raanan Street. Soon a driverless car appeared, opened the doors from the side and the four of us got on. 'Moriya' said the high school student. 'Vadi Givorum station train' I said. The vehicle moved like all the others like it on the neighborhood loop route and soon dropped them off at Moriah for the loop to a grade school and continued with me to Huadi station. There used to be lines of private cars here and now mainly the loop vehicles of two autonomous transport operating companies were seen.
   Floors 1-10 of Huadi station were offices. On floor 0 to minus 10 car parking lots, bicycle parking lots and emergency shelters. The loop cars dropped me off and another passenger in the elevators. We went down to the bottom of Huadi to the high speed train station. Through the Nof Huadi elevator. A new pedestrian and bicycle bridge connected the two sides of the station to it. On the 10th floor, the doors to the train station opened. On the board appeared the fast train to Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva with a stop in Netanya. But this time my flight took off from the new Herzl Airport in Haifa Bay.
   The train from Tel Aviv to Herzl Airport stopped and I got on. Within 5 minutes, hundreds of passengers with luggage got off at the central station of the Gulf. How the place has changed. There used to be interchanges and parking lots here. Since the autonomous vehicle, one lot around the station has become a green park with trees, and residential buildings around it! Since the evacuation of the refineries and the establishment of the airport, it seems that the demand for offices there is only increasing.
   A line of large loop vehicles with room for luggage welcomed us to the terminal. These are the only vehicles allowed to cross the bridge to the airport and they transport tens of thousands of passengers a day. On the windows of our car were advertisements for the new neighborhood - 'Nopi Ha Nahal', right where the ugly brick buildings of Bezan used to be.
   First we saw the bay harbor cranes. After that, the view changed to the sea and the new Haifa skyline, which included about 20 office towers and new hotels in the lower city. 'Herzl Airport, Haifa International Airport' said our virtual driver and reminded not to leave luggage in the loop car. A number of journalists were waiting for another loop car, from which the mayor of Haifa, Hadar Shmuel, the traffic engineer who was one of the planners of the autonomous loop in the city, got out. Now in her second term with 75 percent support, even she reached the field by public transportation. I read, who came to receive the delegations of the Smart Cities Conference that takes place in the conference center in the Logistics District where the 20 containers used to be. Since the multi-purpose hall with XNUMX thousand seats was established there, it has already hosted tournaments, rock bands, and the Smart Cities Conference that has become associated with Haifa Last week, the yacht of a popular rock band was docked at the Kiryat Haim marina. Paparazzi caught them on bicycles on the path on the new boardwalk that connects Acre to Kiryat Haim up to the marina.
   I asked the chatAI to check what the conference was about this year and he summarized for me a speech that Galili's spokeswoman gave at the conference about a watershed management center that was established with thousands of sensors that monitor and even clean and maintain the watersheds and the banks of the Kishon and jointly with Nesher the new metropolitan park Agami Nesher.
   I didn't have time to visit Eagle Lakes. They say this is the most sought-after neighborhood in the north. The description of a Parisian quarter around a huge lake with a fountain, I thought was an exaggeration, until I saw the illustration in the marketing helmet. The Nesher-Agamim train station is right next to the Nesher Lakes.
   After scanning the virtual pass, I entered the new lounge at the Herzl Haifa airport on the panoramic roof floor of the field. The sight of planes taking off from Shreveli-Haim against the background of the Haifa landscape was recently crowned as one of the ten most beautiful views at airports in the world.
   Wow, I still remember Haifa 20 years ago. Who would have believed that all this would happen in 20 years! They say that this is the golden age of Haifa Bay, there is no doubt that it looks that way.

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