In the video: The last residents are evacuated from Sderot/Yinir Yagana
Until this moment, the government has not made a decision on extending the stay of the evacuees beyond the month of February, that is, the end of this month.
The hotels, which are preparing for Passover, a critical time of the year which is a significant point for the annual income, do not receive answers from the government and are therefore forced to start informing the evacuees in their hotels that they will have to leave at the end of the month.
An official at the Ministry of Tourism confirmed this to us.
According to him, "The state has signed with individual hotels and not with hotel chains, so it is apparently not possible to transfer from hotel to hotel during the contract period. At the end of the month, the agreements will expire, so they can terminate the contract. The extension is conditional on a government decision that has not yet been received, it is not a violation of an agreement because they issue them at the end of the engagement."
It should be noted that on previous occasions the government extended the validity of the evacuee's stay at the next moment, but this time the picture seems to be different - first, some of the residents of the Gaza Strip have already been evacuated to alternative places, some will receive return grants and the discussion is going in the direction of returning to their homes - permanent or alternative.
Added to this is the fact that Passover is approaching, and that many will choose to spend it in Israel in the shadow of the ongoing war and the rising anti-Semitism in the world, and the hotels do not want to find themselves bald here and there.
In his first response since the controversy broke out, Yisrotel CEO Lior Raviv said this morning in an interview with Radio 104.5FM that "a storm in a glass of water.
We have 2,000 employees in Halat. I can't bring them back because an evacuee hotel works differently from a normal hotel
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The people of Israel want to go on vacation and we want to allow them, there are a lot of reservists who also want to come to refresh themselves for freedom, vacation.
"I understand the evacuees from Kiryat Shmona, but this whole event is disrespectful, are you threatening me? We saw in December that the evacuees were supposed to leave the hotels in February, so we started filling them with customers. I run a business, a public company, I have employees and I'm trying to manipulate within this thing "
I have no problem closing hotels that will only be theirs.
More solidarity than what we have shown is impossible.
We opened the hotels on 7.10 - we received the most difficult communities, they will not teach me about compassion and Zionism and not about money.
"I don't deserve this attack on us. I want the best for the residents, they must understand and help me find solutions. It is possible to manipulate and leave some of the residents in the hotel they are in and some will move to another hotel - solutions can be found."
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"I don't deserve this attack. More solidarity than what we demonstrated is impossible"/Ariel Bashor
Raviv went on to say that "people call the reservation center and I can't ignore it. They ask if there are evacuees at the hotel. They ask if the lounge is open? No. Is the spa open? No. Is the VIP open? Neither. People come on vacation and want to be on vacation.
" They ask and then they have to say that there is no spa, there is no such meal and such things - an evacuated hotel is not run like a normal hotel and people who come on vacation should receive everything in the highest quality.
"If I have 100 rooms for evacuees in the hotel and then I have 50 guest rooms left, then I have no justification to open a spa. This is a hotel that ordinary guests should not come to, to say the least. The level of expenses for evacuees is very low and the economy in Eilat is also in a very complex situation because there is no tourism ".
Stern.
"I can't believe someone said such a thing. It's shocking"/official website, Kiryat Shmona municipality spokeswoman
Avihai Stern, the mayor of Kiryat Shmona, said that "I help the residents, I represent them and I don't hurt them, and this is a cry from the blood of my heart. Whoever acted in a unilateral manner and issued a letter that everyone should leave starting in March will be a swindler. It was hard for me to believe that Shroutel would evacuate like this.
" It's also hard for me to hear that there are people who don't want to come to the hotel with evacuees.
I don't want to believe that there is such a thing, it's shocking.
I can't believe there is one citizen who said that, it's an invention.
What does he offer?
Concentrate the evacuees in prison camps?
Give them low service and low food and everything is low?
Hard things were said."
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