Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Yitzchak Pindrus at a city council meeting on Wednesday night 18 Elul discussed the machlokes that continues between the frum and secular residents of the city’s Kiryat Yovel neighborhood. He explained to his colleagues that he is personally willing to sit down at a negotiating table in the hope of working out the problems but he will not agree to a situation in which the chareidi residents of the city do not receive the services they are entitled to.

He stressed the latter is not a precondition to negotiations to end the machlokes in Kiryat Yovel, and that one does not try to prevent chareidim from moving to a specific area by denying services that every citizen is entitled to, and this is the situation in Kiryat Yovel today.

“The concept of closing a theater in the hope of chasing one out of the capital is not acceptable. The concept of depriving a child of a school or kindergarten is equally unacceptable” he added.

This Pindrus lamented is the operational methodology of the Kiryat Yovel ‘minhelet’ neighborhood council, which feels by depriving a certain group of services the members of that group will leave the area, which is the council’s goal. “Such behavior only benefits us political and does not deliver you the desired results” he added.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)