Jerusalem City Hall is cracking down on illegal notices being posted around the city known as Pashkvillim. These notices are often glued to numerous surfaces such as trash dumpsters or bus stops mainly in Charedi neighborhoods and are not posted on legal notice boards.

The city has been cracking down on the people who post these notices for more than a year now across the capital, but the crackdown is about to get worse. Recently, the city has begun confiscating the vehicles of the people posting the notices as well as penalizing those posting the notices with a 900 NIS fine per poster. Additionally, the city has announced that they will begin confiscating speakers attached to cars that announce the funerals or shivah proceedings of those posting these illegal notices.

Bechadrei Charedim interviewed a number of the people posting these notices. Those posting the notices believe that the entire industry is being hit with a huge scandal.

Up until two years ago, there was an agreement between the city and those posting the notices that they would only post them on specially allocated bulletin boards. But those boards were only set up in certain locations.

Since then, the city has established special task forces and investigative details to hunt those hanging the pirate posters and fine them as well as confiscate their vehicles. According to those posting the pirate notices, there simply aren’t enough allocated billboards to post on.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)