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. It could be half a ton. And it sits all year long on top of a rickety closet that contains water meters. It's held up there by  thin 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.

Here's a pile of succah beams held by a single loop of zip ties. They are hanging off the top of cabinet, held only by zip ties. 

Remember the tragedy in Karlin, where zip ties were used to hold up rafters and two people died when it crashed?

Another form of danger is wires sticking out of walls 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. I was once knocked over by a man on a bike. All I remember is getting up. I don't even recall getting knocked down. 

Here is an open electronics cabinet on one of the rickety local buses. I have seen this numerous times. The drivers just let it be.

People leave 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. That's part of the how the Meron disaster happened, lack of concern for safety combined with the police blocking exits. The police don't care about safety. They are only interested in their authority and following orders like good you know whats.