(haipo) – Attitude towards the elderly population – A serious crisis in relations between the Pensioners' Lobby and Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav. City Council members representing the lobby claim that the municipality is violating the coalition agreement to establish a municipal corporation for the welfare of senior citizens, and is making extensive cuts to essential budgets for pensioners.
The lobby's chairman, Eli Landau, warns: "Promises have been broken, budgets have disappeared, and the mayor is not responding to our requests – this is a betrayal of the public that placed their trust in him."
Acute crisis between the pensioners' lobby and Mayor Yona Yahav
Eli Landau, a member of the city council and chairman of the Pensioners' Lobby, is protesting the serious harm to the quality of life of 65 senior citizens in Haifa, Kiryat Haim and Kiryat Shmuel, following the failure to implement the coalition agreement to establish a municipal corporation for their welfare. According to Landau, not only has the promised authority not been established, but existing services are also being closed, and budgets that were essential for the welfare of senior citizens have been frozen or canceled.
The Senior Citizens Authority was not established – the budget was frozen
Landau told Hifa that at the direction of Mayor Yona Yahav, the budget designated for the establishment of the authority for senior citizens was frozen. The significance of the move, he claims, is that retirees are left without an organized body that will provide them with a comprehensive response and enable essential services to improve their quality of life.
Canceling the “Gamlaida” – Harm to the Cultural Life of Veterans
The “Gamlaida” event, which took place for years and provided retirees with social activities, performances, and workshops, has been canceled entirely due to budget cuts. The Retirees’ Lobby warns that the cancellation of the event not only reduces opportunities for cultural activity, but also sends a message of disdain and disregard for the city’s senior citizens.
One million shekels cut from the Milab budget – a direct hit to welfare services
Milav centers, which provide essential services such as social support, recreational activities, health services and social assistance, are facing dramatic reductions following a NIS 1 million cut in their budget. According to the Pensioners' Lobby, the budget reduction will lead to a significant reduction in activities and even the closure of some services.
Harm to the employment of retirees – an important project was canceled
The employment initiative for senior citizens, which was intended to integrate them into the labor market and improve their economic and social situation, was also canceled as part of the cuts. The cancellation means harming senior citizens who want to continue to be active and improve their well-being through work that is tailored to their age and abilities.
Further welfare cuts – less support for the elderly
In addition to the freezes and cancellations, the municipality has also cut additional budgets for welfare services, which is expected to particularly hit senior citizens who need financial and health support. The Pensioners' Lobby warns that these cuts could leave vulnerable populations without a solution.
Eli Landau: “Yona Yahav turned his back on us – we will not accept this”
“Not only were the promises made to us not kept, but now they are also cutting off what already existed,” says lobby chairman Eli Landau. “This is a clear and unambiguous message from the municipality – senior citizens are not on its list of priorities. This harm is unbearable and we cannot accept it.”
Unanswered inquiries – Yahav ignores requests for a meeting
The Pensioners’ Lobby and the Pensioners’ Lobby faction on the City Council have asked Mayor Yona Yahav to hold an urgent meeting to discuss the crisis, but they claim they have not yet received a response. “We are trying again and again to meet with the mayor to find a solution, but there is no response,” says Landau.
Demand for the return of budgets and implementation of the agreement
The Pensioners' Lobby demands that the mayor fulfill his commitments and return the budgets that were taken. “65 senior citizens cannot continue to be transparent,” Landau concludes. “We expect the mayor to take responsibility, to fulfill the coalition agreement and return the frozen budgets. This is not only his moral duty – it is a commitment that was signed in a coalition agreement.”
Keep voting for Yona Yahav, he destroyed Haifa and everything around Haifa, including employment.
With all due respect to the retirees, they are not interesting. The young are interesting, all the best girls and women who leave for the center of the island are interesting, this is a city of old people and retirees. Come and see what a disgraceful mess a nursing home is every Saturday during the demonstrations in Horeb. A herd of old people without life and employment, disgruntled Ashkenazi Haifaites who come for their weekly experience and entertainment to hear their own words of filth together with hollow people like them.
Yahav is disappointing.
Concerned about increasing the burden on residents, including property taxes and parking tickets in places where the municipality does not provide sufficient parking spaces for large events such as the auditorium and Romema
Shame on the city and its leaders for their conduct against the residents.
Shame and disgrace!!!!! All hopes of replacing the mayor have been dashed.
Very disappointing!!!!!!
Yona Yahav!!!
In the next elections, all the pensioners
They will remember this! Thank God there are many retirees in Haifa!
You disappointed!!!!
We will remember and not forget!!!
Instead of making it easier for retirees who are already having a hard time!!!
He is not running in the next election.
Ha ha ha –
+Thank God
A hallucination that an 80-year-old retiree, who was lucky enough to become a politician, is working against retirees.
He forgets that a wheel is turning.
He will act in the best interest of the young, the retirees in this city are destroying every good part of it because it is a city of ages. All the young people are running away from the majority of retirees.
Benefits should be given based on income, not age.
There are retirees with pensions three times higher than young people on minimum wage.
The fact that someone is retired does not mean that they are not working – many work. It does not mean that they are needy – many rent apartments and shops to young people.
The test for any benefit should be based on income and not on age or status as a retiree, student, etc. If they are in need, they should register with the welfare department and receive benefits. I have yet to hear of anyone who owns a new car and is also in need who cannot pay for parking.. There is a limit to hypocrisy.
Yael, let me show you pensioners who barely have any
They have to finish a month!
As in every sector, there are people in good financial situations and people in bad financial situations!!!!!
Retirees like me live on 2000 shekels of National Insurance and a certain percentage of pension!!!!
Come, I'll show you some!
I don't have a car!!!!
Then you'll announce that retirees have plenty of money!!!!
Yehudit, you are hiding behind needy retirees but demanding benefits regardless of income, but for all retirees, when the vast majority are much more financially secure than generations after them.
Stop lying and hiding behind "there are poor retirees." The demand for a retiree corporation when there is already Milav is impudent. There is no youth corporation. There is no bereaved parents corporation. There is no disabled corporation in Haifa.
Stop sucking the municipal coffers for unique and unjustified benefits like free parking for car owners. No needy retiree has a car and doesn't use discounts for shows, but you don't care about them, they're not interesting. It's interesting to squeeze more benefits out of the rich retirees.
I agree with what you said. Benefits based on income.
Let's coordinate a demonstration against Yahav Yona, in front of the city hall and in front of his house.
Did you complain to Kalish? She was not suitable for Haifa residents.
It was never good with Yona. How many hypocritical Andes are there in Haifa who elected him and some of the council members from other parties who expose themselves and are seen with him exposing themselves with glasses and the Mediterranean garden.
Go ahead and leave the coalition.
I recommend that Haifa retirees demonstrate for their rights with the same enthusiasm they demonstrate against Bibi.
In both cases the achievement will be 0.
Wrong choice for mayor. Go home, quickly.
The mayor himself is retired, he will still eat the stinking fruits he feeds others…
Yona Yahav, you are betraying us. We elected you. You promised to support the retirees and you are betraying. Simply impudence. Shame on you.
Geriatric municipality.
You smuggled 50,000 young people from Haifa. To Nesher, to Kiryat, to Tirat Carmel, to Atlit.
Places that once dreamed of moving to Haifa are now benefiting from the failures of the Haifa Municipality.
Haifa, which was supposed to be a city of 2010 residents in 350,000!!
A geriatric council that deals with robbing the coffers and raising property taxes to finance huge salaries and huge pensions and benefits for them and their members. That is unable to streamline the mechanisms of the municipality and only feeds the machine to create industrial peace. That is elevated in its role to serve the public in Haifa and maintain the quality of life in the city, with selective enforcement. With turning a blind eye and even encouraging threats by sectors.
shame
shame
shame!!!
Exactly!!! A stinking city of bored, lifeless old people. The best boys and girls are leaving, the best young couples prefer Tirat Carmel (10 levels of better community services than Haifa, property taxes half that of Haifa (to Nesher, and even to Kiryat).
Tired of everything that's happening here.
Something is not right here, as in all places, property tax rates have been raised, and more taxes, and more decrees in the field of parking, and many others, and on the other hand, two poor people? No money? Where does all the loot that was robbed from the residents go? And maybe the time has come that no one should have to pay for something that has nothing to do with them, whoever pays has the right to know where the money goes, which is the time he invested in earning it, and also tax evaders..
Raise property taxes
Raise fines
Raised levies
Require retention tax
Cut down on services
But hey, there are pensioners in the municipality and their budget pension has ballooned from 100 to 200 to 300 and now to 400 million shekels a year, so there is less development, less policing, less welfare, less infrastructure renovation. And the main thing is that the municipality pensioners have a new Chinese car for 200 thousand shekels + free parking for 3 hours and the municipality employees received millions of shekels in addition to attached cars and gifts and celebrations and events and vacations and training courses in luxury hotels. That's where the money goes. Don't you understand?? Here you go.
To pay huge salaries to municipal employees. Arabs who bring Arabs who bring Arabs in this Arab city
You wanted Yahav, you got Yahav, unreliable, a man who only cares about Yona Yahav.
In my personal opinion, my good friend Mr. Eli Landau, a member of the Haifa City Council, is right. May you be strong, Eli.
Why not cut back on municipal staff?
Most of them think they are coming to the modeling parade!!!
Visit the municipal offices and see for yourself...
Suggests abolishing the Carmel Water Corporation and then see how much money will be left for the Pensioners Corporation. It is also worth checking which of the employees are 'swivelers' at work, looking for what not to do. And checking who are the A.E.A. (helper for those who did not understand) for this or that manager, there are many unnecessary ones like that, looking for good in tzitzits, family brings family, what was customary in the past, at some point it was forbidden to do Saat, but the combinators continued with it 🙁
Landau, don't whine. You knew who Yahav was from the previous terms and yet you went with him, so why are you acting surprised? Yahav is competing with Einat Kalish as to who is the worst mayor.
Millionaire pensioners who are not happy enough with all the endless benefits they are robbing from the Haifa Municipality at the expense of the young people who are struggling with property taxes – are invited to get up, leave the penthouses in Carmel and go…
See you later.
They sit and rob us and grumble non-stop.
Free parking for 3 hours for owners of vehicles worth 200 NIS Oh, how poor they are, they can't pay
Parking... you hypocrites, you're fed up.
Your response implies that you are spouting nonsense without checking, since most retirees are not millionaires and do not live in Carmel, and quite a few even live from hand to mouth.
Probably a father's treat, but if not your cup of tea!
I hope you reach retirement age and that you will be in need of welfare and not receive a shekel.
Some of the Gimlaen you spit on helped build the state and the city.
What have you done besides robbing the city coffers with free education?
Yes, it's clear that millionaire retirees are hiding in the comments behind those in need, whom they also oppress. Supervised, you don't need welfare. You sit in a 4 million shekel apartment in Heine Square and demand to park your Tesla for free while you refuse to take a bus to a movie where you also have discounts that are not based on age but on income. You are robbing the future of the country and closing the doors for young people to finance your fake pensions. Who do you work for? Tell me.
So I'm a retiree who luckily still works and drives a 10-year-old car. Parking privileges are important to me. Previously, the parking privilege was for 3 hours, but today it has to be validated using Pango.
And what about the deterioration in parking privileges for those aged 70 and over?
The budget is limited so it's better to invest in young people...
That the Haifa Municipality employees, who have been pulling the strings among themselves, for generations, stop oppressing the landowners and no longer prevent them from realizing construction - as for money, it is very important to save on all the expenses of the Haifa Municipality and begin transferring any amount given as compensation for the severe harm to the landowners and not wait for the total economic collapse of the Haifa Municipality.
Interesting fact
We threw away Anat Kalish and got Yona Yahav… Yahav forgets that he is also an elderly man in advanced condition…
The worst municipality in existence! Always working against its citizens! Enacts laws to make it difficult to stay there and it is also the most expensive in the country!!!! Shame!!!!
Truly shocking, I am not elderly and not a resident of Haifa at all, but it really hurts my heart to read this. Where is the response of the Haifa Municipality? They are harming the weakest people in society, for what and why? Why and why? Go to the High Court, if there is no choice. How come while they were formulating the budget, the municipality let this happen? Where are the rest of the employees of the finance department in the municipality, and why didn't they oppose this? Truly terrible, hard to believe.
Why am I not surprised at all? 20 years ago, what was done for the benefit of the retirees? So why would it change now? He promised in the elections? So he promised…. Look at how Haifa looks in general, then there will be importance for the retirees? It's really outrageous. The city of my youth..
We probably shouldn't have chosen Yahav.
The whole city is rotten and there are no improvements.
Yona Yahav learned from our prime minister… to use and throw away. Many retirees voted for him and those who don't need him anymore are turning their backs. It is likely that at the end of the term, Yona will leave politics, so promises can be ignored. He will not pay a price.
Disgrace 🤮