Tent city in Tel Aviv
צילום: אבי כהן
Netzer Hazani evacuees to leave Tel Aviv
City files complaint with police against hundreds of former Gaza settlers who set up tent city at Wolovsky-Karni Garden; agreement says evacuees to leave Tel Aviv September 1 to farming villages
Former settlers evacuated from the Gaza settlement of Netzer Hazani have reached an agreement with the Tel Aviv Municipality Sunday whereby they will remain in the tent city they have set up until September 1 under the condition their representatives will sign a document stating they will leave the city at the agreed-upon date.
Sarah Ben-Natan during bris of her son Elyashiv (Photo: Avi Cohen)
The agreement was reached following the intervention of Internal Security Minister Gideon Ezra.
The evacuees are set to temporarily move to the farming villages of Shoresh and Beit Meir.
Earlier the Tel Aviv Municipality filed a complaint with the police against hundreds of Netzer Hazani evacuees who had “settled” at the Wolovsky-Karni Garden. The former settlers were not deterred by the act and continued celebrating the bris of Elyashiv Ben-Natan, who was born three weeks ago.
Netzer Hazani settlers at Wolovsky-Karni Garden (Photo: Avi Cohen)
Elyashiv’s mother Sarah said during her first-born’s bris, “It is very sad that Jews are turning us into refugees, but we will overcome.”
Nissan Slomiansky (National Religious Party), who attended the ceremony, said, “this is a disgrace. The mighty Tel Aviv Municipality cannot contribute its part for families whose world has fallen apart and have nowhere to sleep."
