Politicians and city officials on Thursday morning 22 Tammuz visited a number of areas in the Geula neighborhood of the capital including Pri Chadash, Yeshayahu, Malchei Yisrael and Ezer L’Yaldot Streets.
Taking part in the area tour were local minhelet head Moshe Cohen, Deputy Mayor Yitzchak Pindrus, the head of the city’s sanitation unit Tzion Sheetrit as well as representatives of the police and fire departments and other local officials.
Following their tour of areas streets, a meeting was held in the home of a local resident to discuss problems in the community pertaining the officials present. They delegation was shown that on some streets, large cooking gas tanks are stationed adjacent to garbage bins. They are fearful when these bins are set ablaze during protests a large explosion could result. An official explained the matter would be handled by the appropriate authorities.
The discussion focused on the frequent protests at Kikar Shabbos, which impacts tens of thousands of pedestrians and drivers, as well as public transportation when shut down, citing how placing burning garbage receptacles in the road at that location has become a commonplace occurrence. Police representatives were called upon to act with a firmer hand and to press charges against those who set garbage bins ablaze as well as those littering the streets with countless pashkavilim during a protest.
Cohen suggested a mechanism that would lock the bins to the walls, thereby making it impossible to move them to the streets to set them ablaze, which would include permitting sanitation workers to unlock them to bring bins to the trucks for garbage collection. Mr. Tzion Sheetrit explained that in the near future, a pilot project would be launched to address the matter, which will not only prevent burning the bins but prevent the closing down of streets by violent protestors.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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8 Responses
All LAME SOLUTIONS!!
If burning garbage cans is the only way to get their message through, the solution is to take care of their demands the way they expect and there’ll be no burning of garbage cans. As simple as that.
I’ve got an idea of how to resolve the problem… how about these people become somewhat more civilized and protest like normal human beings and not as if they were brought up in a barn!
Nothing will be done. Charaidim think that everything is coming to them because they are sitting and doing nothing but thinking how to take take take from the Medina without giving back anything. They never learnt what chillul Hashem means. Sa
Arye: like no fire/police peeps in area?
take away the garbage bins
it will be a month before any residents notice.
Only the peaceful way accomplishes – it’s high time with so many major outside problems that there should at least be peace within
I’m fed up with the anti-haredi rhetoric here!Yes,burning trash bins needs to be stopped but the cause of the protests needs to be addressed.Haredim contribute far more to the State than they take.Forcing religious Jews to serve in the anti-religious IDF is absurd and should have been stopped long ago.