(haipo) – Freedom of protest: Protest organizers report a surprising announcement they received from the Haifa Municipality about the cancellation of the ongoing permit for demonstrations in Horev. The municipality's announcement was not accompanied by any explanation, but it was learned that the background was complaints from many residents about the noise in the heart of a residential neighborhood, as well as the problem of reaching Carmel Hospital during the blockades of the main highway - the Ridge Highway.
The Haifa Municipality responded:
The Haifa Municipality is not preventing the holding of the 'People's Protest' demonstrations, and will not prevent them in the future. Every week, protest leaders contact the municipality to receive permission for the demonstration, and permission is granted. In the conversation that took place, they were informed that the municipality will work to find a new site for the demonstration. In the coming days, representatives of the Haifa Municipality will meet with protest leaders in order to coordinate a new central location for the demonstrations to continue.
Message from Gali Eshet, one of the protest organizers:
Yesterday we received a scandalous announcement from the Haifa Municipality that the municipality will no longer approve demonstrations at Horev Junction on Saturday nights, starting next Saturday night, 12/13/25.
The announcement was not accompanied by any reasoning, explanation, or clarification – nor was there any joint dialogue on the subject with the protest leaders. This is a serious violation of freedom of expression and freedom of protest.
The Haifa People's Protest announces clearly and unequivocally: The demonstrations at Horev Junction - and everywhere else in the city's public space - will continue as long as the government of massacre, neglect, and coup d'état is in power.
Violent elements on the far right are taking terrible steps against the municipality – and instead of clearly standing on the side of the law and the principles of liberal democracy – the municipality is choosing to cower and align itself with the dictatorship.
Demonstrations and political protests are by nature public events and therefore must take place in the public space – in a prominent and accessible place.
Furthermore, freedom of expression and freedom of protest are fundamental rights protected by law, and a local authority does not have the authority to cancel a legitimate political protest in the public space.
Yona Yahav, you were elected mayor on the basis of your commitment to defend a free, liberal and democratic Haifa – and this is a testing time. Even so, freedom of protest in the city was harmed during the war, and the Haifa public will not accept further harm, nor will there be an attempt to push the justified popular protest to a marginal and negligible place.
It's not too late to change.
We call on the Haifa Municipality to immediately retract its announcement, and we expect to see the city council members elected to defend liberal democracy in the city, attend the upcoming demonstrations.
Let them hold the demonstrations on Ben Gurion Boulevard.
There they will have natural partners.
Congratulations to the Haifa Municipality, the anarchists have exceeded the limits of democracy…
Who are you to block the main road of Horev every week for 3 years?! We're fed up!! We won't consider you anymore! The road is meant to be driven on!!! We're fed up with you and our patience has run out!!!!!!!
It's time
I thought Haifa was 'red'. According to the responses, I see that there are many with brains at their fingertips. I suggest to the 'young people of Pai' that maybe like Tuesday in Shleiks, there will also be an operation on Saturday in Shleiks. The majority of the people decided who their leaders were. A small group will not heal democracy.
These wave of inventory stole the country until 77
Now they play it righteous.
We need to examine each of them to see how they got into the apartments without a mortgage….
Huge amounts of Amidar apartments, etc. have disappeared…
Democracy means free elections, and when one government or another is elected, it is not a reason for its opponents to protest throughout its term just because they did not elect it. There are many residents who are stuck in blocked streets every Shabbat, and disturbing the public is not a right in a democracy.
The marches to the center of Horev became a Shabbat pastime for many people. The mayor did well to put an end to it when all the abductees, except for the last one, returned.
Finally…. a little late but good thing is happening
Finally ‼️‼️‼️
We are fed up with these anarchists who terrorize our neighborhood all the time….
And what will all the bored men and women do? Where will they greet each other and enjoy the brotherhood of Ilta?
I recommend that older and bored Mapai boys go to a macrame class and spend their time doing something useful instead of confusing their minds.
Tzoftza, tell me, aren't the elderly Savyon and Han standing behind the flag in the first picture here in the article?
Exactly them.
Senior Citizens Correction
The protest organizers' response to the municipality's decision shows that they are confident that the sun is shining for them from the @t.
A bunch of privileged people in their own eyes.
These demonstrations are a pathetic show, allowing any demonstration
Demonstrations against the government have become a Saturday pastime for all kinds of bored people. Haifa is doing a good job of keeping them away, maybe they'll hold the demonstrations in the industrial area.
The right to life takes precedence over the right to protest. You paved the way to Carmel Hospital.
A psychotic, mostly senile, half-dead man.
How true it is to demonstrate!
But not to put on tefillin!
Have fake celebrations now
There will be traffic jams in the city, yes!
But not to put on tefillin!
These are the men and women of the leftist Mapai, who have never liked anything, except if they come to power.
A constant protest by a minority that does not accept the people's decision and constantly applauds the fact that it is not in power and works to actually take Helton from him. A minority is dwindling and disappearing. The end is very near. Their path is oppressive, failing and falling together with you, who are hated by the majority of the people who despise you. Go to Germany because London is no longer waiting for you.
I'm tired of the Kaplanist and feminist terrorism.
Groups of Ashkenazi millionaire geriatricians will have to find a new hobby for the holidays.
Dozens of bored millionaire retirees who come to demonstrate in a new quarter-million-shekel car parked at the entrance to blocked streets demand that the lives of the remaining thousands of residents of the estate continue to be ruined.
Great decision!!!! The protests in the village are just really annoying. They've also hurt my livelihood. Let's protest somewhere where the bastards don't bother us.
All the Golden Girls came down from Carmel to demonstrate at sea, no more with the excavations and blockades.
It's a shame that the municipality isn't focusing enforcement on the horrific road bullying in Haifa. It's impossible to sleep at night with all the motorcycle races, everyone knows and hears and nothing is done.
Why are the responders so happy?
We are all law-abiding citizens with early retirement and we are sad to be alone at home, and what bothers you about us taking a little walk in the evening and hearing a quiet performance in the square?
Bored, old protesters are causing traffic jams and even then no one cares about them, they're just bored.
Does freedom of expression allow for the incessant harassment of citizens whose path to their homes is blocked or who are on their way to essential places, especially since the content of the protesters is wild incitement that is against the law? These people have nothing to do with democracy, their behavior is criminal and brazen.
Insolent. Blocking roads to the hospital and half of Haifa. Let them protest on the beach..
Kudos to Haifa Municipality
Just stupid protesters who enjoy causing trouble.
As long as it was to bring back the captured ones, they were safe. But protesting against the government is not at the expense of free movement on Haifa's main thoroughfares. Demonstration and freedom of expression are, but not at the expense of the general public. And I'm not a BIBist.
In any case, I will be in Horeb like every Saturday. This is the least I can do for the great cause of preserving democracy and the values of the Declaration of Independence.
You only believe in democracy when your side is parachuting, that's not called democracy, that's called hypocrisy
Freedom in my ass.
Remove all roadblocks.
Freedom of speech should not interfere with the daily life of any other individual who is simply trying to enjoy the last hours of his Sabbath, or is trying to get home with his family after a trip and cannot find a parking space because the protesters have taken up all the parking spaces on his street. I visited Carmel Hospital recently and heard complaints from people about the blockages. Freedom of speech should not obstruct freedom of movement or individual freedom, especially not on a central and important thoroughfare.
There are enough places in Haifa where demonstrations can be organized without disturbing other residents.
Suggestion for an alternative location. The exit junction from the Danya neighborhood.
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There will be no. People will not be stopped from traveling on the road.
So how will all the millionaire pensioners from Dania travel to the demonstration? They first need to get out of Dania Junction and go somewhere, the hypocrites won't let their neighborhood be blocked off for even an hour.
Recommended place
On the beach
There they won't interfere with our lives.
This is a group looking for employment for themselves.
There's no more reason to protest.
The rallies in the square were also ended by the kidnappers.
It's time to mend the broken pieces.
The municipality is right.
This is already a nuisance.
You've already ruined Horeb and all the surrounding areas.
You simply made the area unbearable, literally unbearable.
blockages
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and political and anti-democratic demonstrations
The reason is regret, bullshit, lies, hypocrites who exploited the pain of being kidnapped for their own political gain.
Just go fuck yourself somewhere else.
We had enough in our area.
That other neighborhoods also took out their garbage
At just distribution demonstrations
Whether they protest in Kabbir or Sakhnin, isn't it the same camp anyway?
Excellent, all the best to the municipality for the move. Anyone who is interested in meeting on Saturday night should gather in the Mother's Garden and not lock us up at home.
Right decision.
This way and that, we enter an election year, and protests against those who built on it did not bring down the government.
Let them vote for the left, for Lapid, Golan, Tibi and Kasif…
(So and so the right will win the elections again and they will protest again afterwards, but at least we will have 9 months and an open road)
You are incredibly arrogant. Is freedom of speech and protest more important than individual freedom?
The unbearable noise
Roadblock
Inability to reach Carmel Hospital, which is a central hospital.
In the past, I didn't feel well and was referred to the hospital, but I'm sick and in bad shape and have to wait for the road to clear so that you can maintain freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech can be maintained in other forms that do not harm other people.
I didn't see that these protests were beneficial to any change except that you hold meetings once a week.
Bored people.
The fact that they have allowed the demonstrations in Horeb and Samar Square for 6 years is outrageous.
Suggestion for an alternative location: Sammy Ofer, there is a main road
It doesn't bother the residents who have been living and suffering every day for two and a half years.
Come on, Salamat.
You're crazy! Where are you spending your free time now?
If you try to block Ben Gurion Boulevard to low-sector restaurants every Saturday night, they will come out at you with fists and clubs, and within an hour you will run away. Who are you making displays of strength against, only the weak in Carmel?
Good luck. I didn't understand why you were complaining, they're moving the demonstrations to another place. What happened? What are you making a fuss about? They'll let you demonstrate somewhere else.
Well done. The irresponsible protesters blocked the road to Carmel Hospital without stopping purchases for the health of the residents.
Good, finally, finally!
Yona Yahav forgot that he was elected as a liberal. It is our right and duty to demonstrate against injustices, and unfortunately there are many of them in the country. It started with stopping the protests in the German colony because they are by Arabs, it continues with the attempt to stop the demonstrations of the Haifa People's Protest, and it will not end here. Anyone who does not come to power well is in their sights. And make no mistake, even if you are on their side now, there may come a day when you simply will not suit them. We cannot be made subjects. We will continue to demonstrate, and I hope that more will join.
Protest, block roads..
What's so complicated? Express yourself respectfully.
No one is shutting you up.
You just don't know how to communicate nonviolently.
What's wrong with you? Pluralism and freedom of expression... you don't look anyone in the eye.
Bored people can't stand you.
A justified decision. We are tired of the dirt that the demonstrations leave behind every week. We are tired of the noise and traffic delays.
Protest in another city
Good morning. I suggest you move to Ben Gurion, they will surely welcome you while you disrupt their lives and businesses!!!
Ready to drive anyone who doesn't have a car there.
Back in the ambulance…
The end of anarchists disrupting the lives of the civilized and normative population
Rabies is an incurable disease.
Shame and disgrace to Yona Yahav
Why protest in a negligible place like Horev? Protest where there are tens of thousands of people. Try blocking Dado Promenade every Friday evening for a walk. Good luck, I believe some of you will end up in Rambam ER and Carmel ER if you try there.
The residents of Carmel, some of whom are elderly, have been forced to endure noise nuisance and lock themselves in their homes every Saturday for years.
The organizers of this terror have lost their shame.
An announcement to end the blockade of the Horev and Moriah intersection should have been made in October 2023, after their protests and calls for refusal throughout the summer of 2023 were what led to 7.10 in the first place.
As a protester, I didn't understand what the problem was.
It was written that demonstrations could be held, simply in a different location.
The article is very biased and distorts reality.
Furthermore, the very response at the end of the article, perhaps even from the person who brought up the item, indicates that she herself is not liberal and is subject to the influence of extremist agendas, with the use of periods in the middle of words and sentences.
Good morning, all the best to the Haifa Municipality
We all got so hot… how much suffering from shouting
The noise is unbearable. Babies in the house.
Waking up crying. How much is enough?!?
Go protest on the beach. You've been a nuisance to anarchists for four years. Blocking a major thoroughfare with your nonsense. Enough. Go.