(haipo) - Residents of Degania Street in Kiryat Haim tell Lehi Fa that in the last year a homeless man has set up his seat on one of the benches in the street, where he spends day and night, polluting the environment and scaring the neighbors.
"We don't want to offend, we're just asking for a solution"
"First of all, it is important for me to say that neither I nor the other residents of the street, God forbid, are interested in harming this person, who chose to be on our street," says one of the tenants. "We simply very much hope that a solution will be found that will be good for both us and him."
"It's been a year, more or less, since he arrived here and settled on a bench in the street, and since then he's been sleeping on it. In the winter, when it was colder, he would go into a stairwell in the building. Many times he sits on the bench half-naked, he speaks in a blunt and rude manner To the residents. There are some residents who are really scared of him, he cursed them in a rude and extreme way. Besides, naturally, there is a lot of dirt and bad smells around the bench. We turned to the municipality, welfare and the police, and their answer was that he is allowed to sit on it A public bench," says the tenant in frustration and adds: "There is a big difference between what is happening here and between 'sitting on a bench'."
"It can't go on like this"
"It goes without saying that when this guy lives on a bench in the street, he has to relieve himself somewhere nearby. One of the neighbors in the building is a soldier who sometimes comes back late at night and he really scares her. We really don't want to hurt him, but you can't live on a bench at the entrance to a residential building Month after month. From what I know, they came to him from the municipality and offered him all kinds of offers so that he wouldn't continue to live on the bench. It's clear to me that nothing can be forced on him, but he can't take care of the neighborhood and scare you The tenants, this cannot continue."
Avoid going to the playground with the children
The claims about the street dwellings in Kiryat Haim Maravit join similar claims about other street dwellings that cause discomfort among the residents of Haifa and the surrounding area, many of them in the Hadar neighborhood.
This is what residents of the Hadar neighborhood say about two street gangs who set up their residence in the Benjamin Garden in the neighborhood, which causes parents to avoid coming with their children to the local playground. Even in this case, the parents hoped that it would be possible to find some kind of solution or a suitable framework for the street children, and this while emphasizing that they do not want to harm them, God forbid, but rather that they want to go back and have fun with their children in the playground without fear.
"The man refuses to get help"
The Haifa Municipality responded:
"We received one request (in February) about the presence of Der Rehov at the aforementioned address. Immediately after receiving the request, the welfare workers went to the place, but during a tour of the place, the man was not found.
Following the repeated referral during the last week (30/6/24), social workers of the welfare services of the Haifa Municipality went to the scene once more, with the aim of helping the man and bringing him to sheltered housing. Unfortunately, all attempts to convince the municipality were rejected by the man, who refuses to receive help from the municipality. It is not possible to force a person to receive assistance against his will, however, the welfare workers will continue to act in every possible way (along with other treatment and enforcement factors) in order to keep the man off the street and get him into housing protected".
The State of Israel has ruined everyone's life, there is no livelihood and they don't even know how to last a life like a human being, I am greedy in everything, only pain brings damage and more damage. My whole body hurts.
good evening
Shame on you
Any bench guy
go give no food
take a shower
something
The dog is taken care of the most
No human
Maybe it's Elijah the prophet
You didn't think
All shame
If you were in his place
And there will be no one to take care of the sip
Shame on you
A country of unscrupulous and heartless people
contact the carpenter
She built not a wooden house
Take care of happiness a little far away and some kind of roof over iron and that there was a good place, you people are very, very bad
Give the man's exact address
Maybe we'll save him
Instead of dogs and cats
Don't send me to old age
bad people
Therefore humanity The poor man lives on a street torn from life.
Compassion, giving and helping others!
I would uproot a bench for him and close the deal
It would be a mistake to "close" the bench to him. He will move to another bench. And what then……
I propose to arrange for him a luxurious apartment in Caesarea at the expense of the state
No one wants to solve a problem.
1.7.24 I passed by the place twice at noon.
For the first time a sleeping human being. The second time I saw him was when he was peeing next to the bench. .. The place he is found is located a few hundred meters from the Kiryat Haim council.
Degania does not contain games but a way to a proper beach
Duration 1 year? To this day, which of you has served him a bowl of hot vegetable soup made in a blender? Cold water cows in the summer? Which of you invited him to the shower? And for Kiddush on Shabbat? Is it any wonder he has no faith in humans? And he insults and curses and messes around and basically shows the face of society. *Please note*
So maybe you'll take him to you?, if you're so worried?!, it's not his place there!, the police should forcefully arrest him and kick him out of the place, did you think that maybe he could bother girls or women walking around there?!, because of the lack of resources of the municipality and the government The residents do not need to suffer!
As if everything that has been written about this homeless man on Degania Boulevard is not enough and I will pick up one of the sufferers. I live in the building where this bench is located. In the heat of changing weather, sleeping on a bench and in dirt and there is no one to come and help us, we the tenants, the grandchildren are afraid to come for them, he is Ebola
If it bothers them so much that he is on the street, let them each donate 100 shekels a month and rent him an apartment
This is what taxes are paid for! And such an act will lead to more others learning the method.
Isn't life here expensive enough? Should the citizens finance the streets?
Kiryat Haim is the backyard of Haifa.
They throw all the garbage there.. Dagania Street has always been a street of the poor with a weak population.. There are brothels there, there are places where drugs are sold and what not... Even as a child, my parents always warned me not to go there alone late at night. There is not even normal street lighting in the inner buildings.
Where is the beautiful Haifa that was
Hadar and the Carmel
Looks like a ladder.
And what about Kiryat Chaim????
It looks like a catastrophe... Haifa is crying over itself. .
Unfortunately, the new mayors are not like Goral who would go around everywhere to know what is really happening on the ground and not just to collect votes
Where is the mayor who promised miracles and wonders to fix, tidy up, clean the trees and thin out the pigs.
Like everyone else, they take office and forget the residents.
They kill the pigs and leave them like that smelling like heathens, multiplying more viruses for the residents and more in the heat of the summer!!!
They only look at themselves instead of feeling sorry for a person who has nowhere to live because of this expensive and corrupt country
It's a shame that the welfare services buy themselves things from the small pot and we have homeless people
Displace the bench
Why is this man dirtying and cursing Michal? There is no need for this. Kudos to you Michal for your reliable and interesting article. Have a nice evening, Michal, and the readers of Nega's Hai Pa website.
Only violence will solve the matter.
There is no police.
There is no law
The honest man in his own eyes will do.
And what about alms groups at intersections??? When will the inaction of the authorities end?
The problem with alms groups that people give money to.
either out of fear or out of stupidity.
And so the beggars return.
In the hope that they will not eradicate the phenomenon by shooting at night... like with the pigs..
The lightest hand on the trigger.
Hahaha from February until yesterday they didn't try to find the poor guy. What do welfare workers do during work? playing cards.
Poor people in Haifa?
Don't worry, they have enough work even without this homeless man.
There is a shortage of people who work well.
To the neighbors:
You feel frustrated.
But he has already passed the stage of frustration. Frustration is a thing of the past for him. Have you thought about it, that if people cared about him when he was still frustrated - you wouldn't be frustrated today?
The criminal neglect is not only your fault, but the fault of society in Israel as a whole. Once upon a time, after the establishment of the state, there were no such things.
Sorry for being blunt, but it's made by society - and now that it's scary, and we don't feel frustrated - we're now eating our own shit, or in other words - it's now blowing up in our faces.
Why don't you give him money?
There is a lot in what you say. Many people fell between the thrones in their childhood and now it's too late.
What are you messing with? You must live in a neighborhood with a high socio-economic status and you don't have street gangs that scare your wives and children and the residents of the neighborhood. The two neighborhoods mentioned in the article are not exactly full of money to throw at it.
Most, if not all, of the street gangs are drug addicts and also have a double co-morbidity of a mental disorder, which is usually psychotic.
You're here victim-blaming the residents of the neighborhood as if they don't have enough trouble of their own. You are very wise
exactly! Every word carved in stone!!!
I wrote: Did you serve him a bowl of vegetable soup made in a blender in the winter? Cows and cold water in summer? Did you invite him to shower and sanctify? For 10 years I lived in the mountains of Eilat and dealt with 15 homeless people, who were thrown there, social refugees like abandoned dogs, as if they were me! The change in attitude brought them to believe in a human society again.
So many condescending and uncompassionate comments. out of a lack of empathy. Give a hand to all those "hands-on" and more to the street dwellers as if it were you!!!! As souls, you never came down to judge here and visit. Give a hand, hug. help
This is why you came down and came.
lower the bench. Maybe then he will agree to the solution that the municipality offers
He has the right to sit on the bench as long as he is not annoying. The residents have the right to live in peace without being harassed. Many years ago, a street tenant settled in Yochaved Garden and bullied everyone who came there. Starting with asking for food and money and ending with defecating among the trees without cleaning up after him and more. All attempts to keep him away were unsuccessful and then some company took the initiative. They connected a hose to a water tap and gave him and his belongings a night shower. When it didn't help that they upgraded the shower... they put a can of strong red colored liquid before the water enters the pipe and the tenant of the street was painted all over. Be warned that this is not the end. Gave up and walked away….
and arrived in Kiryat Haim