After a year and a half as the mayor of Haifa and criticism from all sides, Einat Kalish Rotem prepares for her first big interview: "I have come to correct failures of years, when asked if the city's situation is so bad, I answer:" "" Local media despised " Will bear fruit in 15-10 years "

• "I have to add deputies, five are not enough." Clich Rotem

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  Finney M. Siluck

Last Friday, just after 9 a.m., the upper part of the northern "Lebanon" collapsed, one of the two famous chimneys of the Haifa Bay refineries. The crumbling concrete monster and its refurbished twin, which has become a visitor center, are a symbol of personality splitting. On the one hand, even though they have not been used for more than a decade, and even when they have operated only water vapors - the bricks are identified with the polluting petrochemical industry threats in the Bay of Haifa, and are even painted on the oil refiner's logo (ORL).

On the other hand, it is also one of the most prominent symbols of the city of Haifa, a favorite of its residents, so the wounded briquette dome may be restored. For Haifa's mayor, Dr. Einat Kalish Rotem (49), the chimneys are a symbol in another sense: a symbol of "Haifa's crash somewhere in the middle of the last century, with an economy based on heavy, polluting, obsolete industries. Enough, enough, this city is waning and must move on to the 21st century.

One year and eight months have passed since Kalishot won the mayoral election, partly because she pledged to bring about a comprehensive and profound change in Haifa Bay and to clean it from pollution and factories. In the years before her election, she worked quite a bit on environmental issues, and when she took office, she said that "instead of bringing the young people here, we are killing them." Currently, the refineries are not moving anywhere.

"Everybody wants me to come out with statements that tomorrow morning I throw Oren away," she responds dismissively, "to say I'm closing the tap to the polluting industries as I want these populist statements and nothing else. Obviously the goal is to clear the bay so that only clean, green and advanced industries remain, the polluted land will undergo a clean-up and recovery process, and neighborhoods and recreational and recreation areas will be established. It's a years-long process.

"Since I took office, Haifa's attitude to factories has changed a lot. They complain about that quite a bit, because they probably got used to a good life here in Haifa. I'm not nice to them. No corners, no discounts. Every license, all the rest The message is clear: Do you want to stay here? No problem, you will work like Tatlech, according to what we set for you. Stay only on condition that you are good neighbors.

"But they are not good neighbors, and are not treated with respect for us and our health, so I am not good at them. The Haifa Municipality is currently conducting four legal proceedings against ORL and its subsidiaries. We started to discover a lot of things that were wrong. For example, they replaced pipes, increased pipes without anyone thinking they needed a permit. "

But you promised to replace ORL in real estate.

"These are things that are not only in my hands and the heads of neighboring municipalities. The Israel Lands Administration has prepared the Innovation Bay plan, which is amazing. If it is implemented, 100-80,000 housing units will be built and the Gulf will become Venice, using groundwater to create lakes and canals. "Spectacular and very realistic plans, in my opinion."

Reality?

"It requires a lot of work, but it will happen. I see the factories moving away. Most of them are not needed, and the rest can move away, for example, to the Negev.

"Last March, the plan was unanimously approved by the local planning and construction committee in Haifa. This is a historic upheaval, which will fundamentally change the Haifa metropolitan area. The accompanying plan is a report prepared for the Prime Minister's Office, which shows that it is financially viable for the state."

Local committee approval has no actual meaning.

"True, it has to be approved at the national level. Our approval was a declarative step, that it is a right process and we deserve to get going. Anyone who sees this program is fascinated and giddy. It's like eating fruit from the tree of knowledge. Suddenly you realize that Haifa's brutal fate can be changed."

"Management Failure Collection"

On the wall of the long corridor leading to the Haifa mayor's office are the portraits of those who served in the post from 1914. Starting with Hassan Bey Shukri and Abd al-Rahman al-Hajj, and to Amram Mitzna and Yona Yahav. Ten pictures in total, framed and identical in size, of ten men, in a long line that ends just inches from the front door lintel. The next portrait, of the first woman on duty, will probably wander to another wall. And perhaps this is also symbolic, given what Kalish thinks about how the city has been managed over the years.

"When asked in wonder, 'Is the city so bad?' I answer: "More," she says emphatically, "It's a collection of managerial failures. Decades of shuffling for years, with meaning not stepping in place, but backward decline. And that's out of the question."

She sits on one of the two leather sofas in the guest room in her office and drinks coffee upside down from soy milk. The room's expansive walls are dark wood, and the desk, chairs, coffee table and bookcases are all dark and heavy wood. A large, expansive closet with glass doors arranged pottery, perhaps archeological items, as a museum exhibit.

"The bureau has hardly changed since the days of Father Khushi" (Mayor 1969-1951; above), says Kalish, "I have a respect for that, although I would love to replace everything with some white items from IKEA."

A plasma screen next to the desktop shows an interactive map of the city, whose veins are painted green, yellow and red. Kalish explains that these are roads, sidewalks, stairs, retaining walls. Green is good, red is bad, "and what yellow will soon turn red if we don't deal with it quickly. The situation is not good."

What are you waiting for?

"Funny, that's exactly what I was asked the other day, when I met with a group of residents who complained about ignorance on the roads. I told them, 'Do you really think I don't want to take care of everything immediately? What, I don't break my back when I'm driving on the roads?' It takes a billion to a billion and a half shekels to take care of all this infrastructure, and I have no money.

"Only recently, after a lot of checks and order that has been gradually introduced to the system, are we beginning to realize that the city's financial system has not been working properly, and are discovering amazing things. Hundreds of millions of shekels have not reached Haifa residents.

where are they?

"It's not entirely clear yet. There was no work plan, no supervision, no priorities were set. As if the budgeting was done by the one who shouted most loudly. For example, works were given to landscaping contractors, but we did not check if they did and what they did. Who were given money and not checked whether they performed the job or not.Bus station cleaning contracts were signed: NIS two and a half million.What and why? And who oversaw all this? I have no answers.

"Capital-intensive companies and commercial entities have been paying property taxes here for years, which is one-tenth of the amount they are supposed to charge. For example, a company pays NIS 600,000 a year, rather than $ 6 million. These are not discounts needed to ensure they operate here. Others will not receive such discounts.

"The amounts are incremental, millions and millions more, and they are missing me for paving roads and repairing sidewalks. We are working on this so that the money will be returned to Haifa."

What are you doing, for example?

"One of my channels of action is the introduction of organizational changes in the municipality. On the one hand, many non-existent positions, and on the other hand, countless duplicates of functionaries and authorities. For example, three bodies within the municipality that handled public construction. Most trees do not see the forest, and then a project that is going to cost One million shekels costs double.

"The cost of building a new 'Hogim' school came to NIS 80 million, and no money was left to build a sports hall. According to projections, all construction would have cost NIS 30 or NIS 40 million. How did that amount multiply? A good question was invested. Shekels, and eventually found that they forgot to bring a drainage consultant, and ceilings are leaking.

"I'm cleaning stables here, it's a shame about time. I'm also kidnapping because of that, but I'm not moving. I'm going to make deep organizational changes to streamline processes."

In your first few months, 24 sanitation workers were dismissed, and five deputy mayors were hired for more than NIS 40,000.

"These are spins. These sanitation workers were pre-hired for temporary work, and when I took up their period of employment ended. I never fired junior employees like cleaning or assistants. By no means, on the contrary. I can't stand the fact that every year they were fired and returned to work intermittently, Without worrying about them in basic social conditions.

"There is a committee here and there that are fighting me for efficiency measures, but it will not help them, there is no chance that I will fall in front of them. I worry about employees more than the committee cares about them. I met with employees without proper wages, without conditions. I had tears in my eyes and recently I added a million shekels to help, just for starters.

"The workers' committee wants everything to happen only with their consent, and it won't happen in life. I was elected, and with all due respect, the management prerogative is mine. If I decide to set up a department to deal with a particular issue - that's what will happen. I will inform them, but I will not confirm them.

"Many years have been the habits that have brought the organization to its present state. Many of the employees themselves, unlike the committee, cooperate. It turns out that there were years of employees who approached the management and alerted to things that did not seem right, that there was a tender that needed to be examined, which was given exclusively to provide a specific service. Order, even if protested and protested against me and if they disable sanitation and piles of junk will reach the roof.

"As for the deputies, I completely reject this ridiculous criticism. That's what the law allows me, and I'm even discriminated against. Moshe Leon in Jerusalem has eight deputies, and Ron Huldai in Tel Aviv has seven deputies, all of whom have the same amount of council members, 31.

"I have to add deputies, five are not enough. It is a good thing to add, even in light of the fact that the municipal system has many single factions, and it is almost impossible to build a coalition, and that these people work from morning till night, do a great job for the public, and deserve to earn a living.

"In addition, there are councilors and councilors, who also work non-stop, but volunteer. Does it really make sense for someone elected by the public to volunteer? Holds my education portfolio, Sigal Zionist, 24/7 employee, always available, running around town, devoted Absolute - and don't accept it for a dime. In my opinion it's unlikely. "

How can streamlining, correct budgeting and lack of deductions work with the 2030 director you established, when the cost for 2020 alone is close to NIS 3 million? A small team of consultants bent on you and perceived as a kind of shadow city, which actually runs the city, above the existing mechanism.

"I already announce to all visitors, that the director will grow by 2030. Currently, I have three consultants and one municipal employee, and the director needs to appoint even up to ten people. I am building a strategy team here.

"The army always says that the money is spent on the most excellent cruisers. This is my chief of staff patrol, and I will direct all the resources there. Because that's the engine of the city's strategy for another 15 and 20 years. There was no one here in the municipality who was able to do this with me, until the principal was established. Connect high-tech with public transportation, tourism and hotels, trade and avant-garde culture and historic buildings. Anyone who dares to go out on the principal, who understands that I'm not moving. I do not care. I am goal-focused. "

Why is a tourism consultant required when there is a tourism development association? Why is an economic advisor required when there is Haifa Economic Society?

"It has nothing to do with it. The Tourism Development Association is responsible for information leaflets, tours, operations bureaus. It is unable to make a strategy, Syrian. If this city wants to progress, this manager will grow. I will bring the best professionals here in Israel to get the city out How blessed she is.

"I need people who will make political and business connections, and this is what the economic company does not know and should not do. Today I do not have anyone who will bring business partners to Haifa, so I will hire an economic advisor to the municipality, on everyone's nose and wrath, so that they can promote business entrepreneurship in Haifa. Haifa is stuck in the 1980s and unable to build strategies tailored to the 21st century. I learned these things in depth. I learned from Bilbao's regeneration plan in Spain, led by a strategic team,

Ria 2000. About six months ago, I hosted the mayor of Copenhagen, who was also going through a crazy revival, and we learned from him how he led all these processes.

"I started moving things in Haifa, it has the potential that falls short of any of these cities, and it can and should become the most attractive and attractive city in Israel. For that, I need a strong and professional team, who is thinking strategy."

Still, to the viewer it seems puzzling. Invest millions now in the strategy for another 20 years, when you yourself are missing out on millions for acute needs such as road stratification.

"It's not a mystery. It's just how the despised local media is making things up. But I don't see it in the meter. It doesn't exist to me. If it was up to me, I would tell a speaker who works with me on his precious time, there are a million things to do "Let's talk directly to the residents. My speaker thinks differently."

You are criticized quite a bit too. You are ignoring the media and conducting mainly on social media for the occasional update of the public.

"I am constantly on the ground, and there I talk and listen to the residents. There are bodies and people who know how to come out of communication, and there is local communication here that cooperates with them. On the one hand, I have an opposition that is trying to legitimize me, but on my part it can make flips in the air. So much important work to do.

"On the other hand, as soon as I stopped the municipal advertising budgets in the local media, there were those waiting to get dressed. I do not work well with threats. I decided that I should not advertise every little thing that exists in the city. These are large sums, millions of shekels, that I need to handle infrastructure And for building strategies, not for advertising.

"There are some frustrated council members who are trying to downplay the important thing. The first time someone is involved in sustainable planning in Haifa. The consultant, Orna Angel, goes through the engineering department and changes their perception. And I will bring in a public transportation consultant manager. . are you serious?

"There would be no more plan in this city without thinking of transport at the same time. Connecting the metro to the bus lines, to Carmel, to the Israel Railways. I can't do it all. I work every day until 12 or 1 o'clock. So my team will do it with me "And if anyone dares to attack the 2030 administration, it's a pity for him. It's the most important thing happening in this city and the only thing that can get her out of the blessing she drowned in."

Kalish was born and raised in Haifa. Daughter of Hannah, a music teacher, and Dr. Avraham Rotem (Rotenberg), who was a lecturer at the Technion and worked in Raphael. She is the eldest of three children. Her sister Efrat lives in Tel Aviv with her family. Her brother Aurie died of cancer during his service in the IDF. Two years after his death, mother Hannah died at the age of 54. Kalish without hesitation claims that Haifa's air pollution is largely responsible for their untimely death.

She is married to Boaz Kalish, a mechanical technology engineer, and mother to Haram (22), who serves in the intelligence corps and a graduate of computer science as a student at the Technion, and to Roy (18), who is about to enlist in the IDF. They live in Ramat Sapir High School, served as a diagnostician She then studied for a bachelor's and master's degrees in the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Technion, then continued her doctorate studies at the Technological Institute in Zurich, where she specialized in urban regeneration, and later taught urban planning and design at the Technion and Tel Aviv University, and opened a private city planning office in Haifa.

In 2013, for the first time in the Haifa mayoral election, she faced Jonah Yahav and won her party, "Living in Haifa," for 15 percent of support, which was translated into three city council seats. During the first term, the faction sat in opposition. In the October 2018 election, 56 percent of voters won and defeated incumbent mayor Yona Yahav, who won 38 percent of the vote and vacated his seat after three terms in office.

One of the factors that led to her overwhelming victory was widespread support from the ultra-Orthodox public, and in particular the faction of the Torah flag, which was represented in the Knesset, MK Moshe Gaffney, publicly called for it to vote, and acted accordingly.

"Yes, the ultra-Orthodox supported me in the elections, even though I am a woman," she smiles. "I think the connection with so many communities in the city comes from the fact that they realized that I was here to serve all residents equally.

"Let's face it: There is Privilege Haifa and there is Less Privilege Haifa, and that has to change. All my plans for urban renewal include this thought as well. I want to lower the energy of the downhill entrepreneurs, towards the coast. This is what will make Haifa the Riviera. From the mountain to the beach there are many poor neighborhoods.

"I change decades of paradigms, from Father Khushi's era. He started climbing up the mountain. Investing in Merom Carmel, not the lower city. During his time, it was common throughout the world to move away from the city center. The center was considered a bad, crowded, dirty, more dangerous place. Acceptable and natural, today is unforgivable.

"The trends all over the world are to go back to the city centers. That's exactly what I want to do: return to the old areas, re-strengthen the old centers. The coastal strips, Kiryat Haim, Kiryat Eliezer, where my grandparents settled from Siberia after the Holocaust, in a 35-meter apartment "They saw it as a palace until the day they died. Kiryat Eliezer is built like a spring stronghold where my sister lives. Look where this neighborhood came from and where that neighborhood came from. Kiryat Eliezer is a neighborhood that has crashed and been neglected, and requires rehabilitation and treatment and connection to the sea."

There are allegations that you are repenting to the ultra-Orthodox for supporting you.

"It is very funny. I help everyone, and in large part I do not help anyone, because this city is disintegrating and needs to be taken care of. Whatever, I stop the long-standing neglect of the ultra-Orthodox and Arab public in Haifa. In the public schools in the Arab sector, the situation is appalling. 60 to 70 percent of Haifa's Arab population attend private schools and, on the other hand, shameful public schools. Density, lack of classrooms, no playgrounds. Horror. My predecessors took pride in coexistence? We did not give the Arab public what they gave to the Jewish public.

"Even in terms of the ultra-Orthodox population, the situation is terrible. Some schools have reached an inhumane situation. In a school in Kiryat Shmuel, ultra-Orthodox children study in the basement, without windows. During breaks, students play in the toilet because they have no where to play. I saw it with my own eyes and .

"They deserve to receive what all the residents receive. I have to explain it at all? The main part of my agreements with all the ultra-Orthodox factions is that the status quo in Haifa is maintained. But also with Israel and our home and other factions. That means it applies in all directions.

"During the elections, there were a number of homecoming events, where I was asked how to stop the spread of the ultra-Orthodox in Haifa. It hurt me greatly, I will not forget it. Maybe to approach the secular population and accelerate it to reproduce? I replied: 'I do not stop and do not stop any population.' .

"People set up families as they choose. They were here before my grandparents came here from Europe after the Holocaust. The Arabs were here even before. Everyone will get what they deserve. How can you ask questions about stopping or repelling populations? You want to control About a plurality of populations? "

How did people react when you said that?

"You started yelling at me, 'You'll sell the city to the ultra-Orthodox.' I said, 'Okay, what do you want us to do? What do you think we built a ghetto for them?' After a few moments of silence, I said we would move on to the next issue.

"Out of respect for the ultra-Orthodox population, I find that they are the first to help me maintain the status quo. Haifa is the only city that has public transportation on Saturday, and so it will never be, but not in all areas. I did my PhD in Zurich, and there is no public transport there either. Full on the weekend. "

Still, you can have gender segregation events, or men only, in public spaces. This has criticized you, especially from organizations like the Women's Lobby.

"What is open to the secular population is not always possible for the ultra-Orthodox or religious population. Is this discrimination true? Yes, I am so liberal that I am willing to let every community live the way it wants. I am so liberal that even in women's organizations they are not able to Understand how much, and get down to the end of my mind.

"But all of this is very marginal in the general picture of doing in the city. I'm not here to educate the people, I'm not here to be a symbol of leadership or a model for women. I'm here to renovate and rehabilitate Haifa, that our children will be able to live well, make a living. These wide-ranging discussions on issues outside the city - religion and state, peace and security, gender equality - are important to conduct, but I'm focused on my city. Take a bus 940, drive to Jerusalem and have these discussions there. Let us promote tourism here, which hardly exists. "

You are fighting for the expansion of the airport in Haifa even though it is a controversial move that many residents do not want, and the Ministry of Transport has raised significant safety concerns.

"The Ministry of Transport has long decided to eliminate the Haifa airport because it wanted the area for the Haifa port, which was given by the Chinese. The Chinese port is an accomplished fact, unfortunately. The cranes are already on the way.

"At the airport, I am definitely fighting, and I will continue to fight, because this is the way to develop an industry that will save the entire north, not just Haifa. It's about extending the route another 600-500 meters, in addition to the existing 1,300 meters, and then gradually opening up to all Europe. Former Minister of Transport Bezalel Smutrich signed an agreement 10 months ago to advance us towards this goal. "

It will still not allow flights to most European countries.

"I will continue to work for everything to come true. There are more than two billion Christians, the most sacred places to be found in the north. A large part of the devout people live not far from us - in Greece, Sicily, Poland. This is a huge potential for pilgrimage tourism that the whole country will benefit from.

"If the Israeli government had realized the magnitude of the event, it would have invested hundreds of millions in upgrading the field long ago, thus putting in a billion shekels a year from the tourism industry in the north. When will they absorb it?"

For years, tourist ships have been anchored in the harbor, and they do not choose to stay in the city.

"Because it's a different tourism. These tourists get off the ships and immediately board buses to Jerusalem, Tel Aviv or Tiberias. Flights don't work that way.

"I have no problem not just staying in Haifa. They will be here on the first night and last night. The Bahá'í Gardens reach between a million and a million and a half tourists each year. But what happens? They go upstairs, take pictures of the city, rub and destroy our roads and sidewalks, and continue to the next stop. "I want them to stay here, spend money out of their wallets, pay for hotels, amazing restaurants. We'll open it all up. That's what I've been working on for the past year and a half. I've started working on more than 30 programs at the same time."

A study conducted by the University of Haifa on the attitudes of the residents regarding the municipality's performance in the first year of your tenure showed that, on many indices, Haifa's satisfaction decreased with the Yahav period. For example, in terms of quality of municipal services, assessment of municipal performance, and also the level of trust in local leadership.

"As far as I was impressed, this poll was quite biased. Polls didn't predict my victory in the elections. The media humiliated me, scolded me, barely counted me until last month, and yet I won.

"I can't work according to surveys. I was selected for the job because I talked about the long-term, the promotion of extended depth processes. Choose me because of a vision and comprehensive plan for the city, after decades of neglect, and the day after what everyone sees is just the pits on the roads.

"It's a catch, but I know what I'm doing. In my first year, I started sowing the seeds for the master plans and the urban renewal programs. Once approved, all the entrepreneurial, real estate and business sectors in the city will change. Don't see it yet. People are frustrated and angry, and the truth is I understand them.

"I started with processes that in the long run would bring Haifa to a much better place. That is how this city will grow. I do not do this role to be loved, and not for the sake of populism. There is no politician in this country who cares less for his chair and is more connected to his goals.

"I produce processes that will take 15-10 years to see their fruit. An ordinary politician would not invest in what will not bear fruit tomorrow morning. But I do not care, this city is important, and our children are important. I believe the time will come when Haifa residents will see and understand and appreciate their This.

"You can only invest in bread and amusement. I am not against fun, by any means. I am not a puritan. I am for the city to provide bread and amusement, and not the municipality. An entertaining city, not an entertaining municipality. But for the city to entertain its residents, economics need to be encouraged. And entrepreneurship, addressing infrastructure, tourism, and establishing the solid foundation that will enable it all.

"I know, angry, shouting, I have a big hell on me. I live up to every promise I made to the public. I don't care if they scream at me and I am condemned. It does not pass me by, but I certainly do not move me. I have no elephant skin, as is customary to say. About whoever chooses political life. I have an iron backbone. "

Does your horizon include national politics?

"No, not really. Not absolute. I have received many offers in the past, and I have long been in the top ten for all kinds of parties. But I came to save Haifa. Period. Politics I do not care. I never thought I would ever enter politics, which is not really about me ".

The urban buffet

As a tail for conversation between us, let's talk about the wild boars, who fill Haifa and become part of the city's population.

"Because of accelerated construction, they were robbed of land, and they entered the city. For years, the Haifa municipality employed a special company that diluted them by shooting. Kill them. Today they know that not only is it helpful - it is harmful. It has raised the amount of pigs. As the pigs population grows from year to year, the Nature and Parks Authority already understands this, we have seen the numbers, handled it incorrectly for years.

"We live in nature, and we have to find solutions to it. This is a problem that exists in Barcelona, ​​Berlin and other parts of the world as well. In Hong Kong, the problem of wild boar has become very severe.

"I had the opportunity to get out of the car when facing a huge pig, which was not fun. They are scary, but can only become dangerous if attacked, and those who attack are mainly dogs. Gums, by the way, are much more dangerous, and their quantity is increasing in many places in the country.

"I inherited the problem of wild boars, along with poor handling of garbage handling. Do you see pigs digging in garbage mountains, and asking yourself, how did it happen? It happened that people didn't dump garbage into the bins. You can.

"We have a hard time fixing the trash cans, trying to make sure they stay closed. We did a pilot in one of the neighborhoods, with related bins that can't be turned around, and the pigs hardly ever arrive.

"It turns out that there are hundreds of residents who feed the pigs. One tenant feeds the pigs, and the other says, 'I can't get out of the house.'

"We will start to impose fines, and we will also put a publicity campaign for the residents to stop feeding the pigs, otherwise they will not stop here in droves to eat at the buffet."

In other words, is it the responsibility of the residents?

"It's my responsibility, but the residents also have to accept responsibility, not just throw the blame on me. Prune two branches too - Mayor Guilt. Don't collect the garbage - Mayor Guilt. There are wild boars - Mayor Guilt. She herself, with her own hands , Brought the wild boar to Haifa. "

Comments

ORL reports: "ORL Group is conducting an open and transparent dialogue with all relevant government and local entities, to enable the existence of a vital and sustainable industry, which is an anchor for an independent energy economy for the State of Israel. ORL will continue to work for safety, quality at all times. The environment and the quality of life of its employees and all the neighbors who live in close proximity to it. "

The Haifa City Council said: "Woe to a city that is its leadership. This is a collection of lies and criminal mischief that cries the mayor's inability to run the city. - To restore its negative public image, which it acquires for doing, or rather its doing, for the benefit of the city and its residents.

"Attempting to misrepresent employees and the committee is responsible for its failures, while falsifying the public fund's concern for streamlining the systems - all of them cry out to the sky. On the other hand, it hires the services of unnecessary consultants, investigating companies and appointing deputies and managers and unlimited assistants, with millions of shekels and without Any accountability to the voter.

"Kalish does not tour the gardens, although the elected committee has offered it to the administration several times. Not even in the municipal wards. It is cut off from the public and residents public. Only after a determined and determined struggle by the elected committee, including sanctions and sanctions, was the mayor forced to sign an agreement that improves their wages Of aid in NIS 1 million a year, as a condition of return to negotiation in the context of the existing labor dispute.

"Kalish does not honor agreements she signed. Neither the rescuer agreement, nor the retirement agreements, nor the real estate agreement, signed after the strike.

"The elected workers' committee preserves, maintains and maintains the entire public, and of course would be very pleased if the mayor and the city administration focus on the work for which they have been selected and handle things that are really important and painful to the public."

Yona Yahav, the previous mayor of Haifa, asked not to comment on the article.

A former senior municipal official said: "A decade ago, the Haifa Municipality was granted a" strong city "status by the Interior Ministry, and a number of other awards for good management from the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of the Interior and the Lottery. During the three pensions of the municipality, Yona Yahav has never been in deficit. The downtown area has been widely developed and won the 2018 World Innovation Conference award in 2018. Thousands of miles of roads and sidewalks were renovated and renovated, six new neighborhoods, parks, community centers and about 100 new kindergartens were established. "And all this is at the forefront. That's not the way a city is wading, and certainly not a city with a budget deficit."

The Ministry of Transport did not respond.

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