(live here) – A large family that took over the shared roof has turned the residents' lives into a continuous nightmare - with noise, gunshots, bimbo and constant disturbances. Despite repeated complaints to the municipality and the police, the nuisance continues. The residents are furious: "If this had happened in a strong neighborhood - it would have been taken care of by now."
"This is not a private roof – it's a shared roof!" says Erica Laszlo, a 70-year-old resident of Zipora Zeid Street in the city, who feels her home has become a daily battleground. Since a new family with eight children moved into the building, the peace that existed in the building has been broken, according to the residents, in a brutal and ongoing way. "The children are on the roof all day with their baby dolls, soccer, shouting and celebrating. You can't rest, you can't sit still. Even on Shabbat and holidays there is no respite."
The family in question, the residents claim, took over the shared roof and turned it into a private playground. "I told the father of the family that it was a shared roof, not a penthouse," Erica shares, "and he told me, 'That's what it is,' and left."
A sick neighbor, desperate tenants – and the municipality is silent
But it's not just Erika who suffers. Another neighbor in the building, who is dealing with a medical problem, can no longer stand the noise, disturbances, and daily harassment. According to her, every contact with the municipality is met with the standard answer: "The issue is being addressed." The contacts have been ongoing for almost a year, but nothing is actually happening. "If this were happening in Carmel," Erika says painfully, "it would have been addressed long ago. But here, when we're dealing with a vulnerable population, many of whom don't know how to deal with the authorities - no one cares."
Even the community police officer, she said, tried to contact the family several times and asked them to stop the noise. "But as soon as he leaves, everything comes back. There is no justice, neither day nor night. The children knock on every door when they come down, and we no longer know who to turn to. If the noise is on Shabbat, it is also impossible to turn to them out of respect and protection, but what about us?
What does the law say?
The Israeli noise law states that noises such as ball games, dragging furniture, playing loud music, operating noisy electrical appliances, and the like are not permitted during rest hours, that is, between 14:00 PM and 16:00 PM, and between 23:00 PM and 7:00 AM.
Furthermore, even during non-rest hours, if there is unreasonable and persistent noise – especially in a shared space such as a roof – there is cause for filing a complaint. Local authorities are obligated to enforce the law, but in practice, many complaints go unanswered.
According to the Real Estate Law, the roof is considered "common property" - as long as it is not registered otherwise in the land registry. This means that none of the tenants may use it as if it were theirs alone, and certainly not act in a way that violates the rights of the other tenants to reasonable and quiet use. When one tenant makes exclusive or noisy use of the common property, the other tenants can contact the municipality, the land inspector, and even the court, and demand that the disturbance cease.
The residents of Zipporah Zid Street ask for only one thing – to live in peace. "We don't want to disturb anyone," says Erika. "But we also have the right to rest, to family time, to a normal life. Right now – we feel transparent."
While enforcement authorities procrastinate, and the municipality continues to repeat the mantra that "the issue is being addressed," the central question that remains in the air is: Is justice equal for everyone – or is it reserved only for certain neighborhoods?
Haifa Municipality gave a response to Haifa: "Taking control of the roof and blocking it from the other tenants constitutes a violation of the rights to the common property - an issue that falls within the authority of the supervisor of the registration of condominiums, and not within the authority of the municipality. At the same time, the municipality's construction supervision department is examining whether construction was also carried out on the site without a permit. If it becomes clear that a construction offense was committed, the municipality will take action to enforce the law on the matter."
What a predictable and pathetic response from the municipality. They should have 'checked' a year ago how long it takes to travel from the municipality to this street in fifteen minutes? Why did they wait?
A country that lacks mutual respect, consideration, and morality, and everything must end in legalization and lawsuits = doom.
This is clearly felt in all areas of our lives.
And to this, add the war between sectors in each territory, trying by force to "exclude" the other sector from the "territory".
Some ideas that came to my mind:
1. Call the police and complain about "encroachment" and "annexation of shared territory."
2. Take down the fence on the roof.
3. Issue a letter from a lawyer warning of a lawsuit
4. Sue the family in small claims court. The cost of opening a case – initially divided among the neighbors, and then the court will charge the defendant family with legal expenses. And sue them for compensation.
5. If the residents of the building are members of the Housing Culture Association – contact them and request a letter from a lawyer and legal assistance in the lawsuit.
As they have already responded before me, and to paraphrase Ecclesiastes: "With a wicked man you will become wicked":
Fill the entire roof with pictures of girls in bikinis, books on evolution, and signs saying: "Jehovah does not exist" – and you will see salvation.
Alternatively, you can spray paint the roof floor with "Jehovah" in large letters, and they will simply not set foot there again. You can also make do with pictures of the rabbis of their favorite sect.
Arrogant behavior, exploitation of others, failure to bear the burden, laziness, etc., brought disasters to the people of Israel from right and left, and now our dear people have attacked us.
There is a huge problem in Haifa: enforcement!!! It is related to the glaring failure of both the municipality and the police.
Noise from neighbors in the common spaces!
The noise of the terminal – the performance venue that does not meet any standard of insulation. They took a 'shack' and gave it a license (corruption!!!) to become a noisy and environmentally violent music center.
The noise of motorcycles/cars revving their engines. How many more years will we have to wait for this 'Arab' - terrorist phenomenon to stop?
The noise of music from businesses that are honking at the law.
And the municipality? And the police?
Silent and gone. Shame!!!
Familiar and lovable. There is no law and no justice. The phenomenon of taking over public life. It happens in apartment buildings, and it happens with the phenomenon of motorcycles and race cars that deliberately tear up the roads and harass the residents, sometimes until midnight, especially in the German Colony area, Kiryat Eliezer, HaHagana Avenue to Shikmona Beach. It happened a lot with the phenomenon of fireworks on Fridays, Saturdays, at weddings and parties and just like that on weekdays, that tear up the eardrums and make people and animals jump, again, mainly in the more mixed neighborhoods. The phenomenon has almost disappeared since the war, but I predict that this too will return, there is a population of residents and non-residents that consumes this "action". Both to provoke the public and to provoke the police. Wild West, only it seems that there the sheriff has been more successful in fighting the criminals.
There are also problematic cases in Savyon. Noise is the number one problem between neighbors. There are people who have no empathy for others and their energies are not good. They don't care about anyone and they want everyone to suffer. This is where the state, the municipality and the police are supposed to step in. And without strong police and enforcement with large fines, there is a wild west. It's very simple. The formula is very simple.
If the police had arrived and directly encountered the noise and at that moment issued a 2500 shekel report, from that moment on those neighbors would have been walking on eggshells.
If I were a noise inspector in the police, the first report would be 1500 shekels, the second report 5000 shekels, and the third report 10,000 shekels, and so on for each additional report. Very quickly, there would be no complaints anywhere in the country. In addition, if it concerns music equipment, then it would be confiscated and scrapped. If it concerns drunk or drugged neighbors, they would be taken straight to detention for 24 hours. This is how you handle enforcement. No games, no posing. This is the only way to achieve discipline. Through people's pockets.
Many matters would have been closed with a significant financial fine. Why not take advantage of this easy path to implementation?
All the tenants will invade the roof! There will be fights, the police will intervene!
Stink bomb.
Why the municipality?!
Dismantling the roof fence they built on the roof by order of a court judge.
It was the same for us in Jerusalem, and that's what we did.
There is a solution, put it by the door.
Pictures of girls in bikinis or scatter pages from a newspaper to a woman and you'll see that in a short time they'll leave.
What's the problem with locking the roof entrance door?
Put a big lock and let the unruly tenant go looking...
I have a feeling I know the origin and political views of the tenant in question.
There is only one mistake in the article: Even in "strong" neighborhoods, these things have not been addressed for years.
A rotten police force, a rotten state.
We have become a country of animals who don't care about others.
Bastards who take over private and public space. When will legislators and the police realize that this is violence in every sense of the word?
The laws are supposed to protect the city's residents from inconsiderate, pathetic people, but there's no one to take care of the issue, and there are a lot of zeros working at the municipality as well.
In the building next door, there are several families who have turned the yard into a playground. The screams that come from there are more like a mass slaughter than a game. In this case, even under our bedroom window.
And the municipality? Like everywhere. Fever