A Haifa resident arrived yesterday (Wednesday, 5/3/25) at the municipal treasury offices to pay a municipal tax bill of 975 shekels. He paid the entire amount in coins of tens of agorats and half shekels.
Haifa municipality cashiers witnessed an unusual spectacle last night, when a city resident came to pay an old parking ticket that was given to him about three years ago. The ticket, which had ballooned over the years to 975 shekels, was paid in full - down to the last shekel - in small coins of dozens of agorats and half shekels.
The cashiers who received the payment had to count the large amount of coins – a task that involved Sisyphean and extremely long work. Due to the complexity of the counting, the resident requested that if it turned out that the payment he brought was incomplete, they would contact him the next day and inform him how much he had to complete.
Sisyphus is said of something that has no purpose.
No relation to difficulty level
The report was eventually paid, so it's not a Sisyphean task.
Just a little bit of a hassle.
Words Words
An old American patent but it has a title.
What does it matter to the municipality that the payment was received?
If the cashiers had a small digital scale, the count would be done in 3-2 minutes.
If this got to the press, it would surely amuse the employees.
It's just a shame about the coins, they have sentimental value and must have been collected for a long time.
Extremely stupid behavior to bring a report payment in 10-ege coins. Who is he taking revenge on? An innocent municipal employee who needs to cash the money?
It is unclear, but perhaps this was taken from court rulings in which the payment is minimal and extremely symbolic – a kind of 'little for us' and/or protest.
Anyway, it worked.
It made headlines and the protest was obvious (paying a debt that was cultivated by an opaque bureaucratic mechanism).
It is not recommended to do this on a personal level (it always ends badly).
My kind person 👍⚘️
Well done to him!!! They could have lowered his interest rate and he would have paid regularly.
It's a shame there aren't one-agora coins... or half-agora Star of David cards... Well done to the citizen.
There are, but it is not clear what the values are.
In the end, it will turn out that the value exceeds the value of the coins themselves (due to the silver content in the coin or its historical value).
Anyway – these are the ones that annoy traders the most. (Even though they are worth more)
A wise man like no other. A report that has been published
To "monstrous" dimensions.
Will carry power.
Boycott the employees of the municipality, a great company
Amusing to the point of crying
I really want to cry. I wonder how he managed to save all these coins.
There's no way this will amuse the city employees.
The citizen simply "punished" the municipality in this way.
Stop giving stupid reports every day.
That they should care more about the well-being of the residents.
I wish every citizen who received a fine from the municipality would pay the fine in coins.
They don't hand out tickets in places where there is crime or no traffic jams - the enforcement is strange and very selective. They park on crosswalks at the entrance to commercial areas without tickets (?!?!).. Cars pass by and some themselves park at a bus stop (a bizarre scene but filmed and recorded).. Let them decide if they are in a Borax movie or a wild parody..