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)