They are fed up:
the residents of the Rehavia neighborhood have been suffering at the hands of Mochas for the last few weeks from the tumult of the demonstrations against the legal reform. The demonstrators are protesting there because the private house of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is located on Gaza Street. Now they are embarking on a struggle to restore peace and tranquility to their neighborhood.
We will explain that the Prime Minister cannot move to live in the official residence on Balfour Street because the house has been undergoing renovations for the past few months.
Families, young people, babies and the elderly went out for a demonstration last night under the title: "Let them sleep in peace" - calling for the demonstrations to be moved to the rose garden and to stop holding loud demonstrations in the neighborhood. According to them, the noise is especially harmful to children and the elderly, and the blockades also interfere with the routine of life. The residents held signs On them was written: "Go to the rose garden" and "Stop abusing us".
Demonstrations in the Rehavia neighborhood against the legal reform, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Prime Minister's House on Gaza Street in Jerusalem, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
"They pass through here and it's impossible," says 95-year-old longtime resident David Zucker, "in every demonstration there is only noise here.
What is there to demonstrate here?
It was at night and disturbed my sleep.
How can you sleep in such noise with trumpets and all kinds of things?
I go to bed early because I get up early.
My message is that they will leave the neighborhoods alone and do the demonstrations in public places, not here.
There is the rose garden and other places where people don't live.'
Talia Levavi, mother of three: "I think it is impossible to understand the feeling of helplessness caused by uncontrolled noise.
The demonstrators come under the house two or three times a week, stand in front of the police checkpoint and demonstrate - but mostly make noise.
Picnic carts with amplification systems, hundreds of megaphones, zamboras, professional drummers, all join together for a terrible noise.
When my baby wakes up from the noise there is no way to put her to sleep.
She is terrified of the situation and I have no way to calm her down.
When I talk to protesters they tell me: 'We are doing this for her.'
She is a little baby and babies grow in their sleep.
When do the protesters take her from my nursery to a children's home?
In the communist world where others will tell me what is good for my children, this is the next step.'
Right-wing people confront demonstrators on Gaza Street in Jerusalem against the legal reform, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Efrat Kopel also doesn't understand why the protesters were allowed to return to demonstrate in the neighborhood.
"In the last month and a half, they returned to make our lives miserable.
We leave the house and do not know if we will be able to return.
When I go downstairs with my children to ask the people who are making noise under our house to move to another place, they say: 'You chose to live here.'
It's like telling a rapist that she chose to walk alone on the street - classic victim blaming.'
Emanuel Brosh, resident coordinator at Mishmar Rehavia, emphasized: "The residents of the neighborhood and the surrounding area have been under an anarchist attack for several years.
The courtyards of the houses became public toilets during the demonstrations and turned into garbage dumps.
Residents cannot return to their homes or leave them many hours before and during the demonstrations.
The noise that goes on until the wee hours of the night seriously harms the lives of the elderly residents, some of whom are Holocaust survivors who have nowhere to go, and also prevents sleep from families and their children.
"In recent years, we have fought a lot against the illegal outpost near the Prime Minister's house and the demonstrations that have turned our streets and our lives into a continuous nightmare. We will work to prevent the establishment of a new outpost and to move the demonstrations to a suitable place such as Kiryat Shrovetide."
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