[[{"content_id":"125520","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"29","user_id":"1","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"0","content_title":"More on poverty and crime in Israel","content_number":"0","content_date_event":"2014-11-16 21:19:14","content_summary":"There are painful pictures of distressed neighborhoods in Israel that are home to a third generation of poverty","content_summary_fill":"0","content_body":"Israeli daily Ynet News reported:\r\n\r\n\tBehind the reports and figures on poverty in Israel hide the painful pictures of distressed neighborhoods that are home to a third generation of poverty – Israel's urban islands of neglect and crime.\r\n\t\r\n\tThis is the situation in large parts of downtown Haifa, which Ynet revealed as part of a new report called "Israel Lowest Rung," highlighting the stories of individuals living in appalling conditions in Israel.\r\n\t\r\n\tThe senior residents of Jaffa Street, most of whom are Christian, live in the heart of downtown Haifa and suffer from neglect that has spanned decades.\r\n\t\r\n\tThe accelerated process of urban development around the neighborhood, but not in it, has exaggerated the problems of its weakened residents.\r\n\t\r\n\tWhoever could manage to leave has run away.\r\n\t\r\n\tMajiid Jacob, head of the neighborhood council in downtown Haifa, took Ynet reporters to the home of Joseph Retsch, a young man who was forced to leave his parents home.\r\n\t\r\n\t"Look at what a ruin he sleeps in, without a shower or running water he is forced to defecate in a bottle.\r\n\t\r\n\tThis whole area is neglected and he is not part of the municipality's plans," said Jacob "We pay property taxes like any other citizen but we never had playgrounds.\r\n\t\r\n\tThere have always been prostitutes and drug addicts.\r\n\t\r\n\tCriminals were raised here because children had nothing to do.\r\n\t\r\n\tI remember the holes where we used to play marbles.\r\n\t\r\n\tMy children play in those same holes," said Amir Blan a resident who lives on the same street in downtown Haifa.\r\n\t\r\n\tSixty-three-year-old Samiya's children were able to leave the neighborhood, but she has nowhere to go.\r\n\t\r\n\tShe lives on social security, NIS 2,700, in a crumbling apartment with the ceiling plaster peeling due to dampness.\r\n\t\r\n\t"In the neighborhoods of Wadi Nisnas and al-Khalisa they help residents, but here they do not.\r\n\t\r\n\tThe residents of Jaffa Street do not have money to fix their apartments so they sell them to people from Tel Aviv," said Samiya.\r\n\t\r\n\tThey also suffer from serious health hazards, partly because of sewage and garbage that drain into a shaft of a building on the street.\r\n\t\r\n\tWhen residents turned to the municipality, they were told that the building with the sewage and garbage drainage was private and there was nothing that could be done about the issue.","content_html":"

\r\n\tIsraeli daily Ynet News reported:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tBehind the reports and figures on poverty in Israel hide the painful pictures of distressed neighborhoods that are home to a third generation of poverty – Israel's urban islands of neglect and crime.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tThis is the situation in large parts of downtown Haifa, which Ynet revealed as part of a new report called "Israel Lowest Rung," highlighting the stories of individuals living in appalling conditions in Israel.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tThe senior residents of Jaffa Street, most of whom are Christian, live in the heart of downtown Haifa and suffer from neglect that has spanned decades.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tThe accelerated process of urban development around the neighborhood, but not in it, has exaggerated the problems of its weakened residents.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tWhoever could manage to leave has run away.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tMajiid Jacob, head of the neighborhood council in downtown Haifa, took Ynet reporters to the home of Joseph Retsch, a young man who was forced to leave his parents home.
\r\n\t
\r\n\t"Look at what a ruin he sleeps in, without a shower or running water he is forced to defecate in a bottle.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tThis whole area is neglected and he is not part of the municipality's plans," said Jacob "We pay property taxes like any other citizen but we never had playgrounds.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tThere have always been prostitutes and drug addicts.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tCriminals were raised here because children had nothing to do.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tI remember the holes where we used to play marbles.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tMy children play in those same holes," said Amir Blan a resident who lives on the same street in downtown Haifa.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tSixty-three-year-old Samiya's children were able to leave the neighborhood, but she has nowhere to go.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tShe lives on social security, NIS 2,700, in a crumbling apartment with the ceiling plaster peeling due to dampness.
\r\n\t
\r\n\t"In the neighborhoods of Wadi Nisnas and al-Khalisa they help residents, but here they do not.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tThe residents of Jaffa Street do not have money to fix their apartments so they sell them to people from Tel Aviv," said Samiya.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tThey also suffer from serious health hazards, partly because of sewage and garbage that drain into a shaft of a building on the street.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tWhen residents turned to the municipality, they were told that the building with the sewage and garbage drainage was private and there was nothing that could be done about the issue.<\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2014-11-16 21:19:14","content_date_finish":"2014-11-16 21:19:14","content_date_register":"2014-11-16 21:19:14","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"123775","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"1947171284","attach_date_register":"2014-11-16 21:19:24","attach_id":"124067","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"521","attach_img_height":"312","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"131","visit_date_last":"2025-05-10 05:33:59","attach_title":"More on poverty and crime in Israel","node_title":"Commentaries","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":134, \"left\":25, \"right\":26}]"}]]