Archive for the ‘Carmiel’ tag
Local Government: January 15, 2013
Approximately 70 Bedouin from the village of Kamana are not allowed to build houses instead of the tin shacks without infrastructure in which they reside due to a dispute between the municipality of Carmiel and the Misgav Local Council regarding the jurisdiction in which their neighborhood is located. (Haaretz)
(Hebrew – Haaretz)
Local Government: December 25, 2012
The State Comptroller, retired judge Yosef Shapira, faults elected officials and public servants with meddling in the work of municipal prosecutors’ departments. Among the cities in which these violations occured are Nazereth-Illit, Carmiel, and Beer-Sheva. (Haaretz)
(Hebrew – News1)
Internal Security: April 13, 2012
A military policeman admitted to lying about being stabbed in an incident near Carmiel in the north of Israel. Two 16-year-old boys who were arrested on suspicion of stabbing the policeman were discharged.
(Hebrew)
Closed Society: December 18, 2011
The employment bureau in Carmiel has separate reception days for men and women coming in to receive their unemployment benefits. Women are scheduled for Tuesdays only, while men are scheduled for Sundays only.
(Hebrew)
Closed Society: 7 December, 2010
Over the past few weeks, dozens of municipal rabbis signed a rabbinical verdict prohibiting the rental of apartments to Arabs. Politicians active in the orthodox Zionist stream have started to sign rabbis onto the statement on this issue in order to lower the number of apartments rented to Arabs and to prevent Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the Chief Rabbi of Safad, who has already prohibited the rental of apartments to non-Jews. The politicians hope that since dozens of municipal rabbis, all of whom receive salaries from the state, have joined the call, the State Prosecutor will understand that the position is a principled one, deriving from Jewish religious law (halacha), and that legal and criminal measures cannot be used against these rabbis. The letter was signed by the following municipal rabbis, among others: Yaakov Edelstein of Ramat Hasharon, Yosef Sheinen of Ashdod, Moshe Hevelin of Qiryat Gat, David Wolfa of Rishon LeZion, Avraham Margalit of Carmiel, Zion Suderi of Gedera, Shmuel David of Afula, Simcha Hacohen of Rehovot, Azarya Basis of Rosh Hayain, Yitzchak Yaakobovitch of Herzliya, Yeshayahu Meitles of Nahariya, Yeshaya Herzl of Nazareth Illit, David Sedaka of Pardes Hannah, and Avraham Ohayun of Ofakim. (Hebrew, English)