In recent years, the Bat Galim neighborhood has become a crowd favorite, with new apartments skyrocketing in price and attracting thousands of apartment buyers. These prices, which sometimes reach 7,000,000 shekels and more, not only shock the local market, but also raise many questions about the quality of life in the neighborhood. Alongside the modern buildings that offer sea views, there are old streets that have become hotbeds of filth and neglect, which raises the question – is there really a connection between the luxury properties and the state of maintenance of the neighborhood?
This week, the neighborhood will celebrate the "Beit Galim" festival and thousands of tourists will come to tour its streets.
The filth on Aliya Al-Hashani Street
Aliya Hasani Street, one of the main streets in Bat Galim, functions as a symbol of this phenomenon. Although important institutions such as the elementary school and the Rambam Medical Center operate around it, the situation on this street does not reflect the prestige of the neighborhood. Anyone walking down the street can encounter amounts of garbage that cannot be found in other places in the city. Empty packaging, bottles, and filth are visible on every corner, which shocks the general feeling of the place. It cannot be ignored that the fact that the municipality is investing efforts to keep the city clean does not translate into results on this street.
Residents and Sanitation – A Shared Responsibility
A neighborhood challenged by the influx of visitors
The Bat Galim neighborhood hosts crowds of people from outside, including citizens who come to the Rambam and many who come to the magnificent beaches. This congestion creates a double challenge, both for the municipality and for the residents who live in the neighborhood and are forced to deal with the consequences of this congestion. Residents of the neighborhood complain about waves of trash that roll into their yards from passersby. This requires special attention from the Haifa Municipality, as well as cooperation from residents in reporting hazards that roll into their yards from the enormous amount of visitors.
Fences and neglect in the appearance of the house
Neglect of the building facade and settings
Another phenomenon that attracts the attention of those who walk through the neighborhood is the broken fences around houses in the neighborhood. There are houses with missing fences, which leads to a feeling of lack of care on the part of the property owners.
When fences are not maintained, it reflects not only on the external appearance but also on the residents' attitude towards the place where they live. This begs the question: why do some residents ignore the need to maintain their home and surroundings? This question raises questions about the values and personal responsibility of the residents of the neighborhood. Incidentally, this phenomenon exists in many neighborhoods in the city.
The problem of filth on the streets
While this is a developing neighborhood, its streets do not receive the attention they deserve. The filth on the streets is not a new phenomenon, but it is a cause for great concern. Private gardens, which on the surface are supposed to be places of relaxation, sometimes become hotbeds of filth. It is hard to believe that people can walk past an unkempt garden without feeling obligated to clean and preserve the environment.
Bird droppings on the sidewalk are an understandable phenomenon, because the birds are in the trees above the sidewalk, but the question arises whether it is also possible to clean this sidewalk from time to time.
Municipality and residents – necessary cooperation
Although the municipality makes efforts to maintain cleanliness in the city, it must be understood that cleanliness is a shared task. Residents need to take an active part in protecting their environment. Cleaning a central street in a developing neighborhood like Bat Galim is not an impossible task. With a little joint effort, it is possible to upgrade the existing situation and make the neighborhood truly attractive.
Nature and noise – another challenge
It is impossible not to mention the nature that surrounds Bat Galim. The tall trees and falling fruit add to the atmosphere, but also create challenges in terms of cleanliness. The noise from the birds and the falling leaves require constant maintenance, which is not always done. Residents need to understand that the natural environment also requires care and investment, otherwise it may become a nuisance.
Hope for change
The Bat Galim neighborhood offers inexhaustible potential, but to realize it, fundamental change is needed. The municipality, together with the residents, must work together to upgrade the current situation. Cleaning streets, maintaining gardens and fences, and increasing residents' awareness are necessary steps to improve the quality of life in the neighborhood. If no change is made, irreconcilable gaps may arise between the luxury of the apartments and the filth of the streets.
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I agree with every word in this important article, which highlights the chasm between apartment prices and neglect in this neighborhood.
Every word, as a guest for a moment who sees every harm, it is impossible to ignore the gaping chasm between apartment prices and the filth in Rehovot, as the words of the street indicate the quality of its residents.
Thanks for the article, I've been to the place a few times recently and as a guest for a moment who sees every flaw, I completely agree with every word in the article. The difference and the gaping chasm between the price levels and the filth and neglect on the street is very noticeable. I also wondered who could live in this place with the level of filth and neglect that is evident there. As we know, the residents determine the quality of life, apparently, as in the well-known song, the appearance of the street definitely reflects the nature of its residents.
Everything is true, everyone is right, notice how much you complain, but does anyone take action? I agree 1000% that the municipality can and should take responsibility for cleaning and maintaining the neighborhood, however, it all starts, usually, with small actions, I don't know how much the municipality can be trusted, but at least each tenant to his own house, take a broom, a rake and a hoe and take care of your own. Big change starts with small and consistent steps
The filth begins with Hassan Shukri
Well... what are we in Hadar Hatton saying?
They don't even mention us in the articles, and if there is already an entrepreneur interested in investing in the neighborhood, the municipality doesn't even have a plan for the place, which is a real wasteland.
The neighborhood is neglected. It's the residents' responsibility. Do you think the municipality will clean up what you dirty in your yards?
Even in public areas, most of the dirt comes from people who leave dirt in public areas.
Throwing dirt is not something that can be controlled and it is not filth, it is a natural thing.
The second owner is a 70-year-old dilapidated railway building, inhabited by old people and many renters, so it is very difficult to initiate processes of visual care, and even basic maintenance is problematic. The apartment owners do not live there, so it is not that interesting to them. They want as few expenses as possible in relation to rental income.
The solution is only to evacuate and rebuild, to demolish the ugly buildings and build modern buildings in which to commemorate the Savior.
Yesterday morning early to go for sports, walking around Bat Galim, trash and can't see anyone cleaning, you were late, and why? Even early in the morning at five o'clock, clean and people going for sports, pleasant and clean air, and it's not really dirty.
Good morning, I'm Inga. I lived for 40 years. I was young. Bat Galim was clean. Today it's bad. There's a lot of trash everywhere. I live on the second floor. Ofer, next to a train. It's full of trash. And a lot of complaining didn't help. Bat Galim is the most beautiful. But it's full of broken roads and trash. And so on. My house is dangerous. It's dangerous to break a building. The stairs are dangerous. It's full of people next to a train. It's not pretty and the city is really disrespectful. Thank you.
The whole city is neglected and filthy. Look at Allenby Road, the Wadi area. Shame.
And by God, everyone is right!
… By the way, property taxes are among the highest in the city!
The lighting situation is also shocking.
Tel Aviv Street, in the inner part, starting at sunset, Egyptian darkness!!!
You have to walk there, late at night, with a flashlight!!!
What is happening to Haifa Municipality?
Maintain the lighting on Tel Aviv Street.
Starting at 19:00 PM, you cannot leave the house!!!
And by the way, in such darkness, wild boars also come!!!
Respected municipality, try walking on Tel Aviv Street – in its back part! In the evening!!!
I agree with every word
The dirt and neglect in Bat Galim is a sample of all the dirt and neglect and garbage that is spread throughout the city. I invite the mayor to accompany me throughout the city in the neighborhoods of Haifa (not in the Danya neighborhood of course) from the lower city to the Carmel Center, Ahuza, Romema, Neve Sha'anan, Remez, Ziv, and more and more. Although the polluters are the residents themselves! But the municipality needs to invest and employ skilled and perhaps slightly more expensive contractors in order to clean the city of the filth. Several hundred workers need to be brought in from China or another country who will "dress" the city and clean up the filth. Or else a mountain of garbage will rise higher than the city. In my neighborhood, there hasn't been a street cleaner in many years.
I don't understand what you're surprised about?!?!? When you get to the Sha'ar Aliyah neighborhood, you won't find different sights and even worse ones!!! Because there are no tourists in Sha'ar Aliyah, there's no need for similar advertising?? Shame!! Treat all neighborhoods in the city equally without discrimination.. Even the streets in Hadar are much worse than Bat Galim.!!!!
The tourists are not interesting to us!!!!!! The residents are much more important!!!
The whole city is the same.
Why 7 million? The Tel Avivians brought prices to destroy the city.
On the other hand, as usual, Yona Yahav does nothing to clean up the city, including fines for those who litter.
Enough of the mess with a monopolistic goal! Yona Yahav has no point.
An exaggerated article!
You ignore the fact that most of the buildings in the neighborhood are railroad buildings that were built/bought 70 years ago as small apartments, and today the majority of the neighborhood is made up of retired adults or people who don't have the financial means to finance a fence repair and barely have money to fill the refrigerator. I suggest that the municipality finance all the repairs.
Bat Galim is polluted because thousands of people pass through it every day.
Rambam employees, patients, soldiers, bathers and students studying at educational institutions in the neighborhood.
In the morning, Second Aliya Street is one of the busiest in the city.
The municipality tends not to clean the streets, even if you call 106.
Luckily, once a year there is a festival and then the municipality spends two weeks removing the dirt that has accumulated over a year.
The reporter is lazy and offensive. She photographed two houses on the second aliyah between the falafel and the aliyah school and turned it into a story about an entire neighborhood.
Bat Galim is neglected, ugly, and plagued by hazards from train noise to the Rambam chimney, from the noise from the hospital to the noise from vehicles on the beaches. And of course
Flooding in the winter and traffic jams all year round. Added to this are the nuisances of Airbnb apartments and 13 giant towers that are planned to crowd the neighborhood to death with 2000 vehicles. One small old school that is already too crowded. Quality of life among the worst in Haifa.
Condominiums or private homes that neglect the appearance and cleanliness of their grounds should be fined. But this must be the case throughout the city, not just in Bat Galim.
Although residents make efforts to keep the neighborhood clean, it must be understood that cleanliness is a shared task. The municipality should take an active part in preserving the environment in every neighborhood, street, and corner.
Although residents make efforts to keep the neighborhood clean, it must be understood that cleanliness is a shared task. The municipality should take an active part in preserving the environment in every neighborhood, street, and corner.
Sorry for the spelling errors. There is no point in waiting for the actions of the municipality, all of whose office holders do not support life and are causing serious harm to culture and all areas of life at this time. The population expresses its inability to find a better mayor than Yahav. A man responsible for the deaths of hundreds during his public service at a time of environmental pollution in the air, sea and land. And more
I was born in the second Aliyah and lived there for years. Growing up as a child in this neighborhood was amazing, even when you only had marbles in your pants pockets. The shoes were designed like work shoes. The population during this period was amazing. The changes for the worse began when a population with a different culture began to move to live in Bat Galim.
Tax revolt and a day of rage, a general strike in the neighborhood, until the city's treatment
Who will do it? You?
I don't buy the word "filth," the neighbors.
Have you become lazy, want to clean? Take a rake
Hoe, clean up your living space.
And here you have a gem.
In the not-so-distant past, that's how we used to do it. No shame!
Need help? There are gardeners, schoolchildren
Treat them to a fair amount and they will help you.
Enough with the treats, feed me, drink me…!!!
Apparently the second owner's evacuation and construction plan needs to be approved, and then we won't be the neighborhood's backyard, but a perfect neighborhood for all residents.
Urban renewal (Evacuation + Reconstruction + TAMA 38) means: "Look, there are vacant apartments, you can have more children!" And this has led and will lead to a population explosion that will initially harm the quality of life but will later lead to death in agony from hunger because there is not enough land to produce food for everyone!