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Israel is ignoring a real national emergency
Chen Artzi Sror
Published: 20.05.19, 16:18
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1. what matters is to save money by hiring illegal
ex Oleh Chadash   (05.20.19)
and unqualified immigrants.

I remember that many years ago I met an idiot JAFI sheliach. I was a young man, I traveled miles to meet him.

- "How do you find employment in Israel"? - I asked.

- "go and work in the construction as a worker". he said.

I did better. I went to the university.
2. Government interest depends on how people die.
Stan ,   Israel   (05.20.19)
Every time someone is killed in a terror attack the government and the media have a field day.
Due to financial pressure the relatively large number of deaths that occur in the building industry are completely ignored by our government. Relating to this problem will not bring new voters to support our Prime Minister, but it will antagonise the building contractors.
3. absolutely terrible!
riva ,   gush etzion   (05.20.19)
In my religious circles, for sure, the death of someone would have been mentioned as well as a Tehillim said, but here, you had a huge amount of people gathered together to have a good time, all lacking in decency...they should have made special mention of a man who gave his life to make the event possible! for shame!
4. partly about employers but also workers are negligent
zionist forever   (05.21.19)
I do not think I have ever looked at a building site in Israel and seen even 1 person wearing a hard hat, seems nobody enforces even basic safety.

When renovations were being done to the building I live in there was not a hard hat in sight despite the fact there was scaffold up and there was a rubble chute set up, nobody was wearing working shoes ( not even army boots ) I even saw one man in sandals walking along a scaffold outside my window.
My nephew is in the UK doing a course in plumbing and if he turns up to collage without his steel toe boots and other safety gear on a day when there is a practical he is sent home but in Israel there is no such thing as safety.

Even outside the construction industry people are negligent, one time an engineer from HOT the cable tv company came because I was not getting any signal and the cable went out the window and was attached to the wall so he climbs onto my big windows, stands on the edge and hangs out to try and get a view of the cable, it seems Israelis just do not think about safety.
5. IF THIS WAS IN THE USA A STOP WORK ORDER WOULD BE ISSUED.
OLEG ,   FLORIDA   (05.21.19)
ALL WORK WOULD BE STOPPED LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL INVESTIGATION WOULD ENSUED.
6. MONEY & LUXURY HOUSING MORE IMPORTANT THAN LIFE ITSELF.
OLEG ,   FLORIDA   (05.21.19)
7. A VILLA IN THE JUNGLE.NO RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE.IN ISRAEL
OLEG ,   FLORIDA   (05.21.19)
EVERYONE DREAMS TO HAVE A PH IN ISRAEL.IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW YOU GET IT.AND DREAM OF BECOMING AMERICAN.
8. Question how emotional healthy is a hi-rise Urban society?
LosingOurJewishSoul ,   Jerusalem   (05.22.19)
Are we fast becoming a nation of strangers as many other Western Nations ?!
A consumerist society with no Jewish Values?! Are we just another Western Colony ?!
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