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| 07:07 | 01.6.2009 מאת רז סמולסקי וגיא ליברמן |
>> הוועדה המקומית לתכנון ולבנייה בתל אביב אישרה בשבוע שעבר מסמך מדיניות לבניית מתחם המסילה הסמוך לרחוב אילת שבדרום העיר. לפי חזון העירייה, אזור המוסכים והחנויות הסיטונאיות שבמקום ייהפך למתחם מגדלים. המסמך מתייחס לשטח של 128 דונם וכולל שבעה מגדלים ו-30 בניינים לשימור. כיום מאופיין האזור בבנייה ישנה ומוזנחת ויש בו האנגרים וחנויות פרטיות קטנות. חלק מהבניינים בו מיועד לשימור. הבניינים החדשים יוסיפו כ-650 יחידות מגורים לכ-750 היחידות הקיימות כיום באזור. לאחר השלמת הבנייה, הצפויה להימשך כמה שנים, יהיו במתחם כ-1,400 יחידות וייבנו בו גם גני ילדים, בית ספר יסודי ומרכז קהילתי. למסמך שאושר אין מעמד חוקי של תוכניות מתאר, ולמעשה הוא מהווה מעין הצהרת מדיניות עירונית לגבי עתידו של המתחם. עם זאת, אישורו מקדם מאוד את תוכניות המגדלים, שנמצאות בשלבים שונים של תכנון. הוועדה המקומית נדרשה להציג את המסמך לאחר שהוועדה המחוזית דרשה לראות תוכניות מלאות לאזור ולא לדון בכל פעם בתוכנית בנייה פרטנית. עם זאת, המסמך אינו מחליף אישור פרטני של תוכניות הבנייה של כל אחד מהמגדלים. "מצג שווא של תוכנית" הוועדה המקומית לתכנון ולבנייה בתל אביב ערכה שלושה דיונים בעניין המתחם בעקבות מאבקם של תושבי השכונות פלורנטין ונווה צדק, שמחו על האופן שבו מפתחת העירייה את האזור. התושבים הצביעו על מחסור כבד בתשתיות תחבורה ומבני ציבור באזור וטענו כי העירייה פעלה באופן פסול, משום שבמקום ליצור תוכנית בנייה כוללת, היא נהגה לבחון כל מגדל בנפרד, בלי לשקלל את השפעת כלל הפרויקטים והדירות שיוקמו במתחם על סביבתם. למרות מחאות התושבים, במסמך המדיניות שאושר לא כלולים שינויים תחבורתיים משמעותיים, למעט ברחוב שלבים וברחוב אליפלט הממשיך אותו - שמיועדים להיות הכניסה הדרומית לעיר, במקום שדרות ירושלים הפקוקות. רחוב אילת (ודרך יפו הממשיכה אותו) ימשיך להיות העורק שיחצה את המתחם. הרחובות הרצל, אלנבי ונחלת בנימין אינם ניתנים להרחבה, ולפיכך יישארו כמות שהם. ועד תושבי נווה צדק, הכולל כמה מאות חברים, התנגד בעבר לתוכניות להקמת מגדלי ליבר וניבה. הוועד הגיב לאישור מסמך המדיניות באכזבה: "ההחלטה למעשה מאשרת מנגנון אוטומטי להעברת תוכניות, מבלי שיש כאן תוכנית אמיתית שמספקת פתרונות לשכונה ולאזור דרום העיר", נמסר מהוועד. "מדובר בתכנון אומלל, שמטרתו היחידה הינה לאשר הקמת חומת מגדלים לאורך רחוב אילת, שתהווה חיץ בין שכונת נווה צדק לפלורנטין והמשך למגדל נווה צדק. "עד היום ניסתה העירייה לאשר כל מגדל בנפרד בשיטת הסלאמי - ועכשיו היא נותנת מעין מצג שווא של תוכנית כוללת, שאין בה תוכן, כי אין פתרונות תחבורתיים לאלפי הדיירים שיתגוררו במגדלים, אין מוסדות חינוך שהאזור זקוק להם, וגם אין תוספת של שטחים ירוקים מול הציפוף. הסיבה היחידה לעמדת העירייה היא לחץ של יזמים". עם זאת, בוועד מוצאים קרן אור בהחלטת העירייה: "עד היום העירייה ניסתה לאשר כל תוכנית בצורה פרטנית, לרוב הרחק מעין הציבור", אמרו בוועד. לפחות עכשיו יש משהו כולל, שניתן להילחם בו בצורה מאוחדת". |
Sunday, May 31, 2009
2009 Tel Aviv-Yaffo Real Estate
עם המגדלים באזור שאליו מתייחס מסמך המדיניות נמנה מגדל נווה צדק (נחושתן), שנבנה כבר לפני חמש שנים, ובו 38 קומות. המגדלים הנוספים שאמורים לקום הם מגדל ליבר, בגובה 32 קומות, למגורים או למשרדים; מגדל ניבה, בגובה 26 קומות, המיועד למגורים; מגדל האטד, בגובה 32 קומות, למשרדים או מגורים; מתחם לפיד, שיכלול שני מגדלים ובהם 150 דירות; ומתחם אליפלט, שיכלול שני מגדלים נוספים. 
Friday, May 15, 2009
2009 Movies Amos Gitai
Alila of "Borders" Trilogy
February 27, 2004 MOVIE REVIEW | 'ALILA'
No Peace in a City Teeming With Life By STEPHEN HOLDEN nytimes ( a good review) ( S.C. In the Lowest places of Tel Aviv)
The Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai is an acerbic social critic who likes to point fingers and pick at warts, and "Alila," his acidly comic study of life in a flimsy Tel Aviv apartment complex, is a sour urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces. Their residence, jerry-built in a dreary working-class section of Tel Aviv, is anything but a sleek, well-appointed urban retreat basking in the sunlight; a grubby housing development baking in the heat is more like it.
The building's walls are so thin that everyone's private business is made public. In one grotesquely funny scene, Hezi (Amos Lavie), a secretive older man, carries on a flaming affair with Gabi (Yaël Abecassis), a masochistic young woman besotted with his macho self-assurance. Everyone knows about the relationship because even a hand clamped over a mouth can't silence the couple's raucous lovemaking. The affair has no future. The moment Gabi begins to clutch at her brutal lover, he begins to withdraw.
The movie, loosely adapted from Yehoshua Knaz's novel "Returning Lost Loves," tries to juggle too many characters at once (its title means "story plot" in Hebrew), and in several cases their connections aren't adequately explained. A builder, Ezra (Uri Klauzner), whose illegally employed Chinese assistants toil noisily and at all hours on an unlicensed expansion of the apartment into the courtyard, has a sullen cream puff of a son, Eyal (Amit Mestechkin), who deserts the army and hides out in the city's red-light district.
A stern ex-army officer, Ezra and his divorced wife, Mali (Hanna Laslo), clash bitterly about Eyal's cowardice. The father wants to disown him, but the mother is forgiving, and the surprise upshot of the boy's desertion is one of the story's unconvincing plot turns.
Disgustedly observing the chaos is Schwartz (Yosef Carmon), a doddering Holocaust survivor on the brink of senility, whose peace is shattered by the apartment's expansion. When that expansion hits a snag, he is deliriously happy, his faculties miraculously restored.
There really isn't a likable character in the movie, which opens today in Manhattan. The filmmaker's jaundiced view of humanity is matched by his eye for the ugly. This section of Tel Aviv is a place of dirt and mud and noise. Its physical desolation is matched by the insensitive behavior of characters hellbent on pursuing their personal agendas.
In the filmmaker's view of Tel Aviv (and perhaps of Israel in general), the social contract that gave birth to modern Israel is coming unraveled, and a desperate each-man-for-himself greed has taken over. A production note informs us that there are 300,000 illegal immigrant workers from Asia, Romania, Ghana and Nigeria in contemporary Israel. And the movie conveys the sense of Tel Aviv as the flashpoint for all this diversity.
Beneath the prevailing selfishness lurks the anxiety of living in a guerrilla war zone where news of suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism are reported matter-of-factly on the news all day, every day. If "Alila" shows a city teeming with life, it also suggests a place where no peace is to be had.
February 27, 2004 MOVIE REVIEW | 'ALILA'
No Peace in a City Teeming With Life By STEPHEN HOLDEN nytimes ( a good review) ( S.C. In the Lowest places of Tel Aviv)
The Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai is an acerbic social critic who likes to point fingers and pick at warts, and "Alila," his acidly comic study of life in a flimsy Tel Aviv apartment complex, is a sour urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces. Their residence, jerry-built in a dreary working-class section of Tel Aviv, is anything but a sleek, well-appointed urban retreat basking in the sunlight; a grubby housing development baking in the heat is more like it.
The building's walls are so thin that everyone's private business is made public. In one grotesquely funny scene, Hezi (Amos Lavie), a secretive older man, carries on a flaming affair with Gabi (Yaël Abecassis), a masochistic young woman besotted with his macho self-assurance. Everyone knows about the relationship because even a hand clamped over a mouth can't silence the couple's raucous lovemaking. The affair has no future. The moment Gabi begins to clutch at her brutal lover, he begins to withdraw.
The movie, loosely adapted from Yehoshua Knaz's novel "Returning Lost Loves," tries to juggle too many characters at once (its title means "story plot" in Hebrew), and in several cases their connections aren't adequately explained. A builder, Ezra (Uri Klauzner), whose illegally employed Chinese assistants toil noisily and at all hours on an unlicensed expansion of the apartment into the courtyard, has a sullen cream puff of a son, Eyal (Amit Mestechkin), who deserts the army and hides out in the city's red-light district.
A stern ex-army officer, Ezra and his divorced wife, Mali (Hanna Laslo), clash bitterly about Eyal's cowardice. The father wants to disown him, but the mother is forgiving, and the surprise upshot of the boy's desertion is one of the story's unconvincing plot turns.
Disgustedly observing the chaos is Schwartz (Yosef Carmon), a doddering Holocaust survivor on the brink of senility, whose peace is shattered by the apartment's expansion. When that expansion hits a snag, he is deliriously happy, his faculties miraculously restored.
There really isn't a likable character in the movie, which opens today in Manhattan. The filmmaker's jaundiced view of humanity is matched by his eye for the ugly. This section of Tel Aviv is a place of dirt and mud and noise. Its physical desolation is matched by the insensitive behavior of characters hellbent on pursuing their personal agendas.
In the filmmaker's view of Tel Aviv (and perhaps of Israel in general), the social contract that gave birth to modern Israel is coming unraveled, and a desperate each-man-for-himself greed has taken over. A production note informs us that there are 300,000 illegal immigrant workers from Asia, Romania, Ghana and Nigeria in contemporary Israel. And the movie conveys the sense of Tel Aviv as the flashpoint for all this diversity.
Beneath the prevailing selfishness lurks the anxiety of living in a guerrilla war zone where news of suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism are reported matter-of-factly on the news all day, every day. If "Alila" shows a city teeming with life, it also suggests a place where no peace is to be had.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
2009 Afganistan- Afghan girls ill in third school poisoning
Reuters: Scores of Afghan girls ill in third school poisoning From Mona
Scores of Afghan girls ill in third school poisoning
Tue May 12, 2009 7:38am EDT facebooked by Mona
By Hamid Shalizi
AFTA BACHI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Five young girls slipped briefly into comas and nearly 100 were taken to hospital after a gas attack on their school on Tuesday, the third in a series of such incidents north of Kabul, Afghan officials said.
The early morning mass-poisoning at Qazaaq school was likely the work of Taliban sympathizers hostile to girls' education, the head of security for Kapisa province told Reuters.
"We don't think that the Taliban have done this, but the people who collaborate with and support the Taliban have done this," said Afghan Colonel Sha Agha, who is in charge of security for the second district of Kapisa, where the school is located.
"We have taken security measures to prevent such incidents happening again, and by doing more patrols, I am checking on schools during the night," he added.
The symptoms were the same as those shown by victims of suspected attacks on two girls' schools in nearby Charikar town. One poisoning took place on Monday and another on April 26. Scores of pupils were taken ill in each case.
In the latest attack more than 130 people were affected, with 98 students and 6 teachers admitted to hospital, said doctor and provincial public health head Wahid Rahim. He said five had slipped into comas but all had been revived.
Patients were vomiting, dizzy and some lost consciousness.
"There was a very bad smell in my classroom this morning and the teacher immediately told us to evacuate, but we couldn't walk to get out of the school, we were very weak, sick and dizzy. When I opened my eyes we were in hospital," said 12 year-old Leda.
"I am so sad, what went wrong with our school? I want to study," the sixth-grader said from her hospital bed in a ward of around 20 pale girls, most with drips in their arms.
"We knew about the incident in Charikar, but we didn't think such incidents would happen in our school. Right now we are very scared to continue with our education, to learn," said Aara Gul, 15, waiting for medication.
EDUCATION UNDER ATTACK
Unusually, the three incidents took place in a part of the country that was never under the firm control of the hardline Taliban and kept its girls' schools open while the austere Islamists ruled most of the country.
"Whoever has done this is against peace and security and improvement for women in the country. Surely it will have a negative impact on education, but we will never close the doors of schools for girls," said health chief Rahim.
There have been no clues as to what the gas was in either case or where it came from. Blood samples from the Charikar attacks have been sent to the nearby U.S. Bagram airbase but results have not yet come back.
Attacks on girls schools have increased in the past year, particularly in the Taliban's eastern and southern heartlands, as an insurgency has gathered strength. When the Taliban were in power in Kabul they banned women from work and schools.
Last year a group of schoolgirls in Kandahar had acid thrown in their faces by men who objected to them attending school.
(Reporting by Sayed Salahuddin and Hamid Shalizi; Writing by Emma Graham-Harrison; Editing by Alex Richardson)
Tue May 12, 2009 7:38am EDT facebooked by Mona
By Hamid Shalizi
AFTA BACHI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Five young girls slipped briefly into comas and nearly 100 were taken to hospital after a gas attack on their school on Tuesday, the third in a series of such incidents north of Kabul, Afghan officials said.
The early morning mass-poisoning at Qazaaq school was likely the work of Taliban sympathizers hostile to girls' education, the head of security for Kapisa province told Reuters.
"We don't think that the Taliban have done this, but the people who collaborate with and support the Taliban have done this," said Afghan Colonel Sha Agha, who is in charge of security for the second district of Kapisa, where the school is located.
"We have taken security measures to prevent such incidents happening again, and by doing more patrols, I am checking on schools during the night," he added.
The symptoms were the same as those shown by victims of suspected attacks on two girls' schools in nearby Charikar town. One poisoning took place on Monday and another on April 26. Scores of pupils were taken ill in each case.
In the latest attack more than 130 people were affected, with 98 students and 6 teachers admitted to hospital, said doctor and provincial public health head Wahid Rahim. He said five had slipped into comas but all had been revived.
Patients were vomiting, dizzy and some lost consciousness.
"There was a very bad smell in my classroom this morning and the teacher immediately told us to evacuate, but we couldn't walk to get out of the school, we were very weak, sick and dizzy. When I opened my eyes we were in hospital," said 12 year-old Leda.
"I am so sad, what went wrong with our school? I want to study," the sixth-grader said from her hospital bed in a ward of around 20 pale girls, most with drips in their arms.
"We knew about the incident in Charikar, but we didn't think such incidents would happen in our school. Right now we are very scared to continue with our education, to learn," said Aara Gul, 15, waiting for medication.
EDUCATION UNDER ATTACK
Unusually, the three incidents took place in a part of the country that was never under the firm control of the hardline Taliban and kept its girls' schools open while the austere Islamists ruled most of the country.
"Whoever has done this is against peace and security and improvement for women in the country. Surely it will have a negative impact on education, but we will never close the doors of schools for girls," said health chief Rahim.
There have been no clues as to what the gas was in either case or where it came from. Blood samples from the Charikar attacks have been sent to the nearby U.S. Bagram airbase but results have not yet come back.
Attacks on girls schools have increased in the past year, particularly in the Taliban's eastern and southern heartlands, as an insurgency has gathered strength. When the Taliban were in power in Kabul they banned women from work and schools.
Last year a group of schoolgirls in Kandahar had acid thrown in their faces by men who objected to them attending school.
(Reporting by Sayed Salahuddin and Hamid Shalizi; Writing by Emma Graham-Harrison; Editing by Alex Richardson)
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
2003 Tel Aviv Chris Ben Yehuda
Chris was my room mate 2003 he said he was from USA but he was from Toronto Canada, He got sent back to Canada when Foreign Workers were thrown out 2004, He got onto drugs here in Tel-Aviv and I heard from a friend who visited him that he was still on Drugs.
On the Other hand IBM Canada Phoned me Yesterday, Again Lets' Hope for good.
And: I hope my step of going over to Kadima and Tzipi Livni formally is good They are with Obama at Aipac.
Too many Jews and Israelis in Toronto (You know them from NY),
Regards to Irshad.
2009 Mona is going to Toronto Canada.
On the Other hand IBM Canada Phoned me Yesterday, Again Lets' Hope for good.
And: I hope my step of going over to Kadima and Tzipi Livni formally is good They are with Obama at Aipac.
Too many Jews and Israelis in Toronto (You know them from NY),
Regards to Irshad.
2009 Mona is going to Toronto Canada.
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