Recent Posts Tagged With 'ron huldai'

• Lotsa' luck, or, almost a catastrophe

  Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 08:49 in jaffa, municipality, urban planning, housing problems, halamish, ron huldai

  Eleven year old Inserah was watching her favorite summer TV program, when a huge block of concrete fell down right next to her. The ceiling in the family's living room, in fact the whole buildng on Jerusalem Boulevard, is about to come down.The walls...

• Some sort of victory, for the time being at least.

  Posted on Saturday June 13th, 2009 at 08:01 in demonstration, gentrification, jaffa, municipality, urban planning, housing problems, community activity, ron huldai

  It appears last week's demo as well as the letters sent by the Jaffa coalition have had a positive effect: Ron Huldai, the mayor, contacted Yaron Bibi, the director of the Israel Land Administration as well as Avishai Braverman, in order to poin th...

• What about, perhaps, Emile Habibi Square?

  Posted on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 03:22 in jaffa, municipality, ron huldai, jaffa governance

  Today the municipality is going to name the main entrance square to Jaffa in the name of one Joseph Carmel, a property tycoon who reportedly donated some money to the Tel Aviv municipality.Yet again the municipality makes an effort to wipe out Jaffa'...

• Moufleta Politics

  Posted on Thursday April 16th, 2009 at 00:57 in Police, jaffa, ron huldai, border police, mimouna, nadia hilou, mishlama, jaffa governance, moufleta

  Yafo Gimmel is a mixed and by all standards rather slummy neighbourhood: Palestinian families and poorer Jewish ones (those who can afford it, move out) share dreary apartment blocks, many of them owned by the "Halamish" public housing company. Over...

• Is the april joke on us?

  Posted on Wednesday April 1st, 2009 at 01:49 in education, tel aviv, jaffa, municipality, community activity, white city, ron huldai, jaffa governance, black city

  Today officially the "Tel Aviv 100 years" party starts. I like parties, in fact, i like parties a lot, but the one hundred years anniversary of Tel Aviv must be some sort of joke.The first neighbourhoods of what was to become Tel Aviv, were founded a...

• Looking for a new "governor" for Jaffa

  Posted on Saturday March 21st, 2009 at 02:48 in education, drugs, jaffa, municipality, ron huldai, gilad peled, nadia hilu

  The "Mishlama leYafo, or the Jaffa Governance as it is called by the Jaffa Tel Aviv municipality, was supposed to be a kind of mini municipality for Jaffa. According to the original plans the governance was to have authority and full control over its...

• Itidal's home: waiting for the court desicion

  Posted on Friday February 6th, 2009 at 02:01 in human rights, jaffa, urban planning, housing problems, ron huldai

  Lawyer Rasha Asaf of the Popular Committee Against Home Demolitions has appealed to the emergency judge to make a temporary ruling against the demolition of Itidal's home this coming sunday.Although an appeal has been filed some days ago, to ask the ...

• Arabic? Nah... Arabs? Nah.... Israel is the "only democracy in the Middle East" after all

  Posted on Sunday January 18th, 2009 at 08:05 in democracy, justice, jaffa, municipality, ron huldai

  In the course of the first municipal council meeting of the newly elected Jaffa-Tel Aviv municipal council member and Jaffa resident, Omar Siksik, decided to address the council in Arabic. Arabic and Hebrew are both official languages of the State of...

• Leib Ben Sara Street

  Posted on Wednesday October 29th, 2008 at 00:00 in human rights, history, discrimination, tel aviv, jaffa, municipality, housing problems, community activity, ron huldai, mishlama, jaffa governance

  Leib Ben Sara is one of those small dead-end alleys in Jaffa, close to what is now a military court. Until 1948 the building of the military court was a Palestinian family home. Many of the homes in the street were constructed during the period of th...

• Naji Needs Your Help

  Posted on Monday October 6th, 2008 at 07:37 in human rights, justice, social justice, discrimination, tel aviv, welfare, jaffa, municipality, housing problems, halamish, food security, ron huldai

  Naji is 5 years old, almost 6. He lives in Jaffa, with his mother and sister.He should go to kindergarten, but the only kindergarten willing to accept him is located on the premises of the Asaf HaRofeh Hospital and demands an emergency unit nurse t...

• Back to the ma'aberot, one more Nimby in Jaffa

  Posted on Friday March 21st, 2008 at 00:24 in human rights, justice, social justice, racism, discrimination, welfare, jaffa, municipality, urban planning, housing problems, ron huldai

  The Tel Aviv municipality has started to construct a tent camp in Jaffa, a refugee camp basically, for the many homeless refugees from Darfur and Eritrea currently staying in the over-crowded and dangerous shelters and the park in the area of Tel Avi...

• Reuven Abergil released after shabak interrogation

  Posted on Saturday March 1st, 2008 at 06:54 in democracy, justice, social justice, discrimination, demonstration, tel aviv, municipality, housing problems, community activity, ron huldai

  Ron Hulday, the Jaffa - Tel Aviv mayor, is getting worried. In November this year the municipal elections will take place. Hulday serves his wealthy cronies well, yet in the south of the city more and more people are loosing their patience.After many...

• Jaffa Harbour

  Posted on Tuesday February 12th, 2008 at 23:59 in human rights, harbour, jaffa, municipality, urban planning, ron huldai

  Jaffa's harbour is ancient. Some say about 5000, others about 4000 years old. Archaeological digs in the area found stone implements, suggesting the ea very early human presence of fishermen.The riffs that protect the harbour's entrance have been the...

• Sedaka Reut Update

  Posted on Wednesday January 30th, 2008 at 06:53 in jaffa, municipality, ron huldai, sedaka reut

  Just heard the news: the Sedaka Reut cultural center, located in the bomb shelter in "Gan HaShnaym in Yefet Street will stay open at least until January 2009!!!During this time, they can apply for another space.It;s always nice to win a fight :)...

• "System Ali " fighting for their Culture Space Shelter

  Posted on Friday January 25th, 2008 at 13:34 in jaffa, municipality, housing problems, ron huldai, sedaka reut

  A bomb shelter, turned cultural center for kids in Jaffa, packed with over a hundred activists of many ages and varied backgrounds. Many people are waiting outside; inside it's standing space only, sardine style, but who cares. The music is great, th...