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(haipo) - Poor maintenance of the drainage system in Haifa causes indescribable suffering among residents. This time, residents of the Bat Galim neighborhood were affected.

Bat Galim is the only neighborhood in Haifa that lies on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The neighborhood celebrated 100 years recently.

It used to be magnificent: it has beautiful gardens that were called "households", since the days of the architects Richard Kaufman and Adolf Rading. But for seventy years since the establishment of the state, the neighborhood has been neglected. The peak of neglect has reached the point that with the arrival of the rains this winter (2024) the neighborhood is standing in water.

Bat Galim is full of puddles of water that cannot seep through. The ground is saturated. The sewers are blocked and the residents on the first floors of the buildings have to deal with the rainwater that enters their apartments, or worse, with bursting sewers.

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Waiting for the knight on the entrepreneur's horse

The residents spend thousands of shekels to open sewers every year. Sometimes individuals whose apartments are on lower floors pay for it. Due to the neglect, there are also no housing committees: no one is interested in investing in a house that is falling apart, everyone is waiting for an entrepreneur to save them from the situation. Pinoy Binui is a code name for: "There's no way I'll spend a penny on a repair."

Orit Adam, resident of the neighborhood:

I spent a lot of money (936 NIS) for repairs and opening a sewer in an apartment that I rent every month for 4000 NIS. I only got part of the money back and that too with great difficulty. And yet, the stench from the sewers is terrible and there are lots of mosquitoes in the winter. In terms of costs, the neighborhood is luxurious, but they do not match the quality of life we ​​get.
Standing water in Bat Galim after the rains (Photo: Tal Kizman)
Standing water in Bat Galim after the rains (Photo: Tal Kizman)

The mosquitoes feast in puddles

In the neighborhood groups there are countless complaints and tips on what can be done to eradicate them (not possible). The residents call the Haifa municipality hotline to report and it is season that took care of the situation. But for some reason it is not noticeable, because the mosquitoes penetrate the apartments, even on the higher floors and even if the windows are screened.

Mariana, a resident of the neighborhood:

I live on the ground floor of a chain house and the amount of mosquitoes is crazy in all seasons of the year. It's really a sanitary hazard that doesn't let you sleep at night. The water that stands and reaches the ankles after the rain does not help. I pay one of the most expensive property taxes in the country for nothing. Without an orderly treatment of monitoring and extermination of the mosquitoes the problem will not be solved, unfortunately references on the matter to the municipal hotline were closed on the claim that they were treated but without treatment.

The property tax is high, but the living conditions are extremely low

Recently, there have also been complaints about a growing parking shortage. The neighborhood became attractive to families with means who have more than one vehicle per family. Park even in parking lots marked as private.

Bat Galim in the mud (Photo: Tal Kizman)
Bat Galim in the mud (Photo: Tal Kizman)
Standing water in Bat Galim - Bat Galim in the mud (Photo: Tal Kizman)
Standing water in Bat Galim - Bat Galim in the mud (Photo: Tal Kizman)

Why doesn't the Haifa municipality deal with the issue?

All she does is send letters to residents threatening eviction before declaring buildings dangerous. Everyone is waiting for an entrepreneur to lift the glove and do a "construction evacuation".

Shir, a resident of the neighborhood:

There is a terrible plague of mosquitoes in the houses. I had nights with more than 30 mosquitoes a night.
The main streets of the neighborhood are neglected. This is a neighborhood that could have been touristy.

There is no escape from taking responsibility

The municipality of Haifa, together with the residents of the neighborhood who are renters and not owners, should sit down and think about how to prevent neglect and improve housing conditions. As mentioned, the residents pay one of the highest taxes in the country and therefore deserve appropriate treatment.

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Tal Kizman
Tal Kizman
Morat Derech l writes on the topics: environmental quality, city planning, nature, art and culinary

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  1. The only thing that is developing in Haifa is the hospital that bites into every good part of the neighborhood.

  2. This is an expected result of the vilification of the residents by the director of engineering, the local committees and all the charlatan contractors and the Haifa municipality for the massive construction without planning of scandalous projects that make the city a victim of taking over all the green fields for the enrichment of the contractors and a few greedy residents of Carmel.

  3. Sara, ready to write about other neighborhoods as well. Write us about something concrete

  4. There is no response from the sale of Haifa regarding handling the entire issue of roads in Haifa, one example is on Gordon Street along its entire length and in particular by the working and learning house there is a large square where older children cross and it is impossible to cross because they have not yet paved a road to be able to cross. The time has come for repairs. The main thing is that the city is asking for property tax payments and not Helps the residents who live in Gudon 33....

  5. Tired of the promises. And the words without actions. The city has been going backwards for five years now. In all areas. Infrastructure, Chanuch, cleanliness, culture, Kiryat Haim is far from the eye, an orphan, good only for paying Anunana.

  6. Only David Etzioni is able to change the sad reality as described in the article

  7. Hello, did you focus only on Bat Galim?? What is happening with the evacuation of the Neve David Shaar Aliya building? We have been waiting for years, where are the promises?? And the performance?? Will we ever realize the dream of living in a house with a dimension or a shelter in good conditions??????

  8. 20 years of neglecting the city's infrastructure, therefore it is no wonder that Shabbat Galim, like all of Haifa, is submerged in mud!!!
    We need fresh, young thinking, with flight and passion to serve the citizen and fight for him!!!

  9. A. Remove vehicles from Bat Galim streets and close them to pedestrians.
    Great neighborhood served by public transportation. Those who don't want to don't live there.
    on. Closing the train parking lot to private vehicles, turning it into a parking lot for the residents of Bat Galim (as mentioned together with section A)
    third. Mud - collecting an entrance fee with a car to the beaches - like in Tel Aviv port.
    The toll will finance the maintenance of the boardwalk and the sewerage in the neighborhood. Close the entrance to the Margolin platform parking lots at the checkpoint, payment.

  10. We will say thank you to Yona Yahav, who was 15 years old and did not look at the Bat Galim neighborhood,
    Today the place is going through crazy changes and real estate prices will double

  11. Every single word is true and justifies the terrible and terrible situation. I live with Alia 17 Bat Galim and have been suffering for 24 years from water in mosquito sewers. I am on the first floor and all the dampness in the walls of my house.
    Haifa municipality must intervene quickly on the issue of building evacuation.

  12. Due to the parking crisis, many apartments were divided into housing units, each tenant of a housing unit gets a parking ticket. 4 partners rent an apartment, each gets a parking ticket, so it is very difficult to find a free parking space. . In addition, revelers who come to Bar Galim in the evening occupy parking spaces along the nearby streets. The cumulative problem is severe, the situation is getting worse. The municipality is required to put things in order

  13. They had a tremendous opportunity to raise Bat Galim to great heights, but they fell when they opposed the construction of a marina, and this is in their hands for generations.

  14. What will you not do to discredit the municipality of Haifa and its leader
    A corrupt mayor probably suits you

  15. Bat Galim is the only neighborhood in Haifa that lies on the beach?
    And Kiryat Haim?

  16. Haifa Municipality for your immediate care

  17. The solution is urban renewal. However, as long as this does not happen, the municipality negligently neglects it by not enforcing construction and demolition violations by apartment owners, especially in housing estates on public lands. Bat Galim is an asset to the city of Haifa and Francia has never treated her accordingly.
    The Navy has to fly out of the neighborhood now. Not only are they sitting, due to the mistakes of the British, on perhaps the most expensive land in the city, but most of the time they brazenly do all the fitness training and crew trainings they do outside the base on the bathing beaches, thus disturbing the people who come to rest. Situation of Bat Galim in the future, depends on a change of perception of the next mayor.

  18. Friends, the new mayor will not help. Bat Galim infrastructures are suitable for 20 years before. When Bat Galim was a small neighborhood.
    Right now the neighborhood is in a construction boom. Tama and Pinoy Binoy project. Until all the projects are closed, they will not make a new water drainage system. This requires consideration of the number of apartments to be built and planning is something that takes time.
    In the meantime, make sure that the rain drainage systems are not connected to the sewer system, so you will not have sewage overflows
    And the municipality will take care of the sewage and drainage systems of the municipal schemes.

  19. I live in Bat Galim in a 70-year-old house in bad condition. They recently decided that the house should be preserved. My number is 0528610887

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