10 migrants' businesses shut down in TA
Municipality inspectors, accompanied by police officers, close bars and supermarkets operating without license near old central bus station
The Tel Aviv Municipality on Wednesday shut down 10 businesses operating without a license near the city's old central bus station. According to Municipality sources, this is part of a wide-scale move aimed at closing places which have been attracting foreign residents.
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Foreign workers and asylum seekers from all over the country have been flocking to Tel Aviv's old central bus station area in the past few years. Over the years, the migrant opened entertainment centers in the area which sell alcoholic beverages.
The decision to shut down the businesses followed repeated protests by veteran residents of the city's southern neighborhoods, who claimed the area had become dangerous.
(Photo: Motti Kimchi)
(Photo: Motti Kimchi)
(Photo: Motti Kimchi)
In the evening hours, the Municipality's "green squad" inspectors raided dozens of businesses in the area with shutdown orders. They informed the business owners that their stores were being closed due to lack of businesses licenses and then locked them with chains and welded the doors.
The shut down businesses included supermarkets and bars.
The inspectors were escorted by officers of the Yiftach District Police. The Municipality is expected to pursue these activities against other businesses in the near future.
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