The residents of Gedera are unable to forget the brutal rape of a resident of one of the new neighborhoods and since then the personal security of women and girls in Gedera has been undermined.
The shocking incident took place at the beginning of February 2023, when the 22-year-old rapist from the Bedouin Zephora broke into the apartment through the balcony and attacked the woman who started crying for help.
He bound you with duct tape and threatened her in front of her two-year-old son.
He then dragged her to the emergency room, where he raped her. Before fleeing the apartment, she drank a beer he found in the refrigerator and even talked to her other son who had woken up.
Along with the shocking case of rape in the fence, many residents feel that they are not protected and the issue of personal safety is unanswered. According to a survey A recent election in Gedera shows that only 25% of the women in Gedera will vote for Yoel Gamliel, the head of the council for the past 15 years, many of whom see him as someone who did not care enough about the security of the residents.
Is Gedera facing a change of head of council?
- According to a survey by the Smith Institute ' held on February 21, 2024 shows that Adv. Sahar Pinto is leading with 43% support, Yoel Gamaliel with 40% and Talia Lankri trailing behind with only 17% support.
Attorney Sahar Pinto is running for the presidency of Gedera/official website, photo: Reuven Kopichinsky
Just before the opening of the polls, Sahar Pinto tells about the situation in Gedara: "Since the shocking rape case, we have experienced quite a few incidents that undermine personal security here, such as the brutal theft of an ATM from the heart of the largest neighborhood in Gedara, and the statistics of the investigation cases in Gedara do not bode well, and all this before The sense of security that was undermined throughout the country following the events of the Seven Days in October. Faced with this clear need to strengthen security, we put on the council's table, years ago, an orderly plan to strengthen security in the settlement, which includes 7 necessary steps, including the establishment of a police station within the settlement. A situation of over 33,000 is not possible Residents of Gedera rely on a police station in Yavne."
Did the conduct of the local council provide a good response to the needs of the residents during the fighting?
"There is no doubt that the term that is ending should be divided into the years before the seven in October and the months that have passed since then. Unfortunately, those who were not prepared as required during their normal days cannot be surprised when, during an emergency, they find themselves unprepared for the challenges of combat.
The council left a huge vacuum in responding to the needs of the residents during the months of combat. We entered this vacuum - many residents volunteered at checkpoints at the entrance to the settlement, others volunteered for standby classes, a concept that did not exist in the fence at all until the outbreak of hostilities. On the community level, we established within a day what we call the 'Community Iron Dome', an extensive platform within the framework of which many hundreds of Residents volunteered to help in a wide variety of initiatives for soldiers, reservists, enlisted families and evacuated families.
Together with the Gesher movement, we established our community podtruck during the fighting, a podtruck that arrived every evening at another base in the country, in the assembly areas of all sectors and treated over 30,000 soldiers over the past months Since then. The Gedera community has been revealed in its full strength during this fighting and for that I want to take this opportunity to say thank you to each and every one of our volunteers."
Is Gedera ready to replace the current head of the council?
There is no doubt that it is.
The credit that the residents of Gedera gave to the head of the council ran out a long time ago after most of his promises, certainly the more significant ones for the residents, remained 5 more years on the 'Here it will be built' signs and simulations.
Last time there was a split in the votes that wanted to change the head of the council.
This time there are more voices who want to replace Gamliel and the public is smarter now.
The public understands that only a consolidation of votes around the candidate who has a chance to replace the head of the council can lead to a new head of the council.
The survey, incidentally the only survey that was published and reported as required by the Election Commission, which we conducted through the Smith Institute, encompassed a very broad sample of residents and points to an indisputable fact - over 60% of Gedera residents demand a new head of council.
The only question that remains to be resolved is whether those 60% will split between different candidates or unite behind me to bring a new head of council to the fence on 2/27.
The head of the council himself knows the numbers very well.
Gedera has already heard him say in his voice that his main asset in the campaign is the fact that there is a third candidate apparently running against him and causing the split of the votes.
He also knows very well that if there were only two yellow ballots in Gedera's polling stations, he would have no chance for another 5 years."
The scene of the event
The suspect in the fence break-in and rape/image manipulation, Uri Sela, courtesy of Channel 13
The Smith Institute survey was conducted on February 21, 2024 among 500 people as a representative sample of those with the right to vote in Gedera.
Sampling error - 4.5%.
Commissioned by Gedartaim movement
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