Slippery Slope

The Tel-Aviv municipality has designated an area of free parking as a paid parking zone specifically during hours in which prayers are held in an adjacent mosque.

(Hebrew – mynet)

High-school students applying to Tel-Aviv-Yafo Ironi Hey’s gifted classes were asked about their parents’ occupations.

(Hebrew – mynet)

Tel-Aviv-Yafo Council member Shlomo Maslawi (Likud), wrote a letter of complaint to Minister of Education Gideon Sa’ar (Likud) about the appearance of Marak Levinsky soup kitchen activists in front of Tel-Aviv-Yafo high-school students, and demanded that he forbid their entrance to the city’s educational institutes.

(Hebrew – Mynet)

Large discrepancies were found in the salaries of several senior Tel-Aviv-yafo municipality officials during an audit conducted by the Treasury’s civil-service wages director.  The discrepancies range from 3,000 to 14,000 NIS per employee and were, it seems, paid out of the city taxes (arnona) paid by the city’s residents.  The municipality and Histadrut Labour Union refuse to hand over their own data for inspection.

(Hebrew – The Marker)

Three youths are suspected of attacking an Eritrean asylum seeker in Tel-Aviv-Yafo, throwing stones at him, and threatening him with a knife. (JPost)

(Hebrew - Ynet)

An indictment has been served in the Tel-Aviv Juvenile Court against eleven minors who are charged with assaulting foreign nationals in Tel-Aviv.  According to the indictment, the accused organized in order to commit violent acts against the foreign nationals, based on their ethnic and national background. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew - Walla)

Six Arab-Israeli girls aged 14-15 claim they were attacked by four Jews while playing in the south Tel-Aviv-Yafo Menachem Begin public park last week.  According to the girls, two men and two women threw stones at them and hit them with sticks while they were in the park in the evening.  As a result of the assault, they claim, they sustained injuries and one of them was treated in the city’s Ichilov hospital.

(Hebrew - Walla)

The conviction of Tel-Aviv-Yafo Deputy Mayor, Pe’er Visner, of forgery and fraud has been overturned citing the fact that such a conviction would harm Weisner as well as the public. (Ynetnews)

(Hebrew – Ynet)

Tel-Aviv-Yafo’s Green Patrol, which was established in order to keep public gardens clean and orderly, has started removing street dwellers.

(Hebrew - Haaretz)

A fight broke out this week between Israeli girls and the daughters of refugees and asylum seekers in Yarden public school in Tel-Aviv-Yafo’s HaTikva neighborhood.

(Hebrew - MySay)