Safety

 

What you see there is a pile of heavy Succah parts, mostly metal rods that hold up the Succah. I would guess that the weight of that pile is over 500 pounds. And it sits all year long on top of a rickety closet that contains water meters. It's held up there by who knows what? Some cable attached to small hooks that are screwed into the wall. Children play underneath it. I see danger, but that's the Israel way of doing things.

Another form of danger is wires all over the place and open electronics cabinets.

Cabinets struggle to stay closed here because everything is so junky and never replaced.

The apartments where all this is happening will cost you $850,000 for four bedrooms. Your kids will be playing around all this stuff. They'll also play in parking lots where cars zoom and out as do electric bicycles. I know a little girl who was knocked over by a bicycle. She got a big lump on her head. 

People refrigerators on the street without turning then to the wall. They leave bookshelves leaned against walls in the garbage area. 

They put garbage cans on the sidewalk on narrow streets. They park on the sidewalk, so you have to walk in the street. 

That's Israel. Safety is not a thought here.