The chain of murders and shootings in Lod, which led the Arab sector of the city to declare a strike and brought with it a wave of protests by Jews and Arabs who called for the return of governance to the city, continues to influence agendas.
The mayor, Yair Rabivo, issued a call to the residents of the city to come with him to Jerusalem on Sunday and demonstrate the situation in the city in front of the weekly government meeting.
In a message distributed by the mayor, it was written that "Dear residents, that's it! This Sunday we will go to Jerusalem and call at the beginning of the government meeting. With all due respect to the legal reform, you will immediately devote time to changing the governing legislation, so that the Shin Bet will come in to deal with crime, that illegal gun owners will come in to prison, and that the crimes be removed from here immediately.
It's time for all of us to get out of indifference and from the keyboard and come, Jews and Arabs, to shout and protest, because this is really not just a problem of Lod, but a problem of the governance of the State of Israel." to Jerusalem
He calls on the residents to go out with him to demonstrate.
Lod Mayor Yair Rabivo (archive), photo: Photo: Yossi Zeliger
The latest protest comes after today the Minister of Finance visited the city of Salal Smotritz.
In connection with this, the mayor wrote that "at my urgent and urgent invitation, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich came this morning to an emergency meeting of the Lod city administration due to the incidents of crime and violence in recent days. I told the minister that I demand from the government the legislation of the governance reform immediately and transfer the handling of crime in Lod to Lehav 433, To Israel, and to the Shin Bet. Minister Smotritz responded to my request and said that he would do everything to help the city and its residents fight criminal crime."
The politicians come before the elections and then forget, photo: Yonatan Shaul
While the mayor is trying to lead a protest in front of the state authorities, it turns out that the Ludai public itself has already given up on the protest itself and the demand for changes in the security situation in the city.
On the town's announcement that the Minister of Finance is visiting the town, an angry resident wrote that "everyone comes to take pictures but nobody actually does anything. It starts with the fact that the police station in town looks shabby compared to the size of its population."
Another resident wrote to the mayor: "Yair, my friend, they all come talking and do nothing. I don't think it interests any of them, take the initiative and fight. Shut down the state, that's the only way they will sit and talk to you. P.S. Where are all the Likud ministers who always come when there is Elections, take pictures and disappear."
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A similar criticism of the situation was also voiced in WhatsApp groups of the residents in the various neighborhoods in the city.
One of the residents wrote about the panicked city council meeting that "I have been to four such emergency meetings of the council and all that came out of them was shouting and writing posts".
The scene of the explosion in Lod yesterday, suspected assassination, photo: MDA operations documentation
Many residents also expressed despair at the Arab leadership in the city, which is only concerned with saying "eat me, drink me and is not concerned with accepting responsibility for the situation".
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