#0202_A_View_From_West_Jerusalem
"Jerusalem municipality – crap municipality!
23 Golomb St, Kiryat Yovel neighborhood [1], 320,000 shekels property tax per year from one building! We’ve been chasing this non-existent municipality for two months so they can repair the potholes in the access road to the building!
Every drive to the main road requires ‘off-roading’ through 8 cm deep potholes, asphalt that has risen, cracks and obstacles. 12 potholes in a 30-meter stretch of road!
If you don’t pay property tax on time, your bank account will be foreclosed and a letter from an attorney will be sent to you (which will cost you an additional 700-800 shekels)… But if the 'phantom municipality' won’t do its job, you won’t be able to do anything or get anywhere!
There’s enough money for bicycle races and concerts. There’s a plenty of money for cultural events so that Nir Barkat [2], and a few other parasites, can be photographed smiling and reach the headlines. There’s nothing for you – and you fund it all.
Many people are leaving this city for good reason!
Zero investment in the residents and infrastructure.
They're closing cultural centers [3] but they still want to increase property tax!?"
– Jerusalemites FB Group
[Selected Comments:]
– "Every Jerusalemite needs to replace the shock absorbers in his car every year because of the potholes…"
– "Shameful. I asked them to come fix the road in the Gilo neighborhood [4] and the municipality simply ignores my requests."
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0202 Editor's Notes:
[1] Kiryat Hayovel is a neighborhood in southwest Jerusalem built on Mt. Herzl. It was built in the early 1950s to house Jewish immigrants who fled Arab countries after Israel’s independence. Kiryat Hayovel is a mixed Jewish neighborhood, in terms of religious observance and socio-economic levels.
[2] Nir Barkat is the two-term mayor of Jerusalem and has been in office since 2008. Formerly working in the high-tech industry, since the beginning of his political career in 2003 when he founded the local party Yerushalayim Tatzliach (lit. Jerusalem Will Succeed) he has had political backing from varying political parties in Israel across the political spectrum. He is currently a member of the Likud, a party on the center-right of the Israeli political spectrum.
[3] Jerusalem Municipality | עיריית ירושלים recently voted to close התחנה הראשונה ירושלים – The First Station Jerusalem on Saturdays. For more information, see this previous post: https://goo.gl/6fn95j
[4] Gilo is a primarily Jewish neighborhood on the south-western side over the 1948 Armistice Border. Many new immigrants to Israel come to Gilo and it is also home to a mixed community of religious and secular Jews although, like much of Jerusalem, it is the midst of a process of more Haredi Jews moving in.
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