The TMA joke: safety? You made me laugh, try getting rich - voila! Real estate

Land collapse at the TAMA site on 6 Tsanchananim Street in Hod Hasharon, 19.1.2023 (photo: official website, Hod Hasharon Municipality)

If it smells like fish, and it tastes like fish, it's probably TMA: there's a feeling that we're being worked on from all directions. For twenty years, it's been called the "strengthening program against earthquakes," and we're eating it up like lacrada.

It's time for someone to speak up As they are, and I am sorry to disappoint everyone who builds on TMA - but the truth is that this is a program that has brought nothing and nothing to this day, except for the enrichment of a few individuals and the expansion of the phenomenon of van contractors (so called "entrepreneurs"), who have entered the construction industry in recent years Thanks to the TMA. The ones you wouldn't let them paint your wall.

So that's right, demolish and rebuild according to the earthquake standard - Niha. However, in most cases, it's not about demolishing and rebuilding at all (TMA 38/2) but On strengthening and adding floors (TAMA 38/1).

Imagine a housing building built in the 1950s and 1960s out of seashells and sea sand to accommodate the multitudes of immigrants who flooded the new land in those years.

Now, the van contractors took a building with towel foundations - and strengthened it against a magnitude 7 earthquake.

The reinforcements are not done where it is necessary - but where it pays off financially

Let's face the painful truth:

we are an assembly line for increasing real estate value. There is no meaning in mind control. But the money made per square meter on the land values ​​- there is also there.

This is also the reason that all the reinforcements are not really done where it is necessary, but where it pays off financially. And what about those hard-working people who live in terrible housing buildings in Tiberias, Beit Shan, Safed, Be'er Sheva, Arad and other settlements that are prone to destruction, due to their location along the Syrian-African divide? They will be sent as atonement when the Day of Judgment comes.

You can love Ron Huldai or not, but he The only one who tells the truth: "TAMA 38 was born in sin, its stated goal of strengthening houses against earthquakes was not achieved. Does someone who owns an apartment worth NIS 4 million deserve to receive NIS 700,000 for agreeing to strengthen his house, while in Hazor HaGalilit, where he sleeps A tangible danger of earthquakes, can't tenants strengthen their houses due to the lack of economic viability?"

Huldai did not remain silent.

He wrote these words about two years ago, even before it was fashionable, to the Prime Minister and the Ministers of Finance and Housing.

So he wrote.

Do you have any hope left?

Get ready to forget about her

Let's talk about the effectiveness of the TMA. Beyond the enrichment of the lucky few who chose a good apartment with the establishment of the state according to real estate "location location location location" senses, will the buildings stand as a stone that cannot be replaced, despite a noise of 7 Richter?

I don't have a degree in civil engineering (unfortunately), so I turned to Israel David, one of Israel's top engineers, former chairman of the Union of Construction and Infrastructure Engineers, and former chairman of the Standards Institute and vice chairman of the Bureau of Engineers and Architects, and most importantly a signatory to Insuf Naininin in Israel and around the world . And if after my words you still have a little hope left, get ready to forget about it.

"There are many cases in which, while working on the TMA, buildings simply collapse. The problem is that there are no injuries or harm to human life, so it does not reach the media. Tam" A 38 is a crime... a crime against the tenants and a crime against the environment.

The planning administration decided to cancel it a few years ago.

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- Explain

"TMA 38 was born 20 years ago as an engineering program to reduce the country's risk due to the occurrence of natural disasters, such as an earthquake.

20 years have passed, and although the state invested close to 20 billion shekels in not collecting sales tax, the contribution to reducing the risk is zero.

In all the areas that needed reinforcement, it wasn't economical to carry out TAMA. So they didn't do it."

"The plan places enormous limitations on urban renewal. Instead of seeing a general picture, they build additions like in the pavelas in Brazil. What's more, they take a rotten building, cover it with some concrete and build floors on top of it. The decay inside the building is not solved. All in all, the TMA has become a mine Gold for casuals who want to clip a quick coupon without any public benefit and disconnected from its original purpose."

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