Millions of shekels flow to contractors and municipal departments while residents of Jaffa D neighborhood suffer from ongoing neglect, collapsing infrastructure, and poor sanitation. Special documentation reveals: How an entire neighborhood became a focal point of neglect under Huldai's management, while municipal departments receive funding without providing basic services to its residents.

Tel Aviv of 2025 is a city of extreme contrasts. While the northern neighborhoods are well-maintained and enjoy clean streets, verdant gardens, and maintained infrastructure, Jaffa D neighborhood has become a virtual dumping ground under Mayor Ron Huldai's leadership. A tour conducted by the "Maakav" editorial team reveals a shocking picture of deliberate discrimination and neglect.

Two Cities in One

The gap between north Tel Aviv and Jaffa D neighborhood is staggering. While northern residents enjoy well-maintained boulevards and full municipal services, Jaffa D reveals a completely opposite picture. Comprehensive documentation of Kehilat Canada and Paamonit streets exposes an inconceivable reality of garbage heaps, broken sidewalks, and collapsing infrastructure.

Millions for Cleaning Contractors – Garbage Remains on Streets

Municipal cleaning contractors rake in hundreds of thousands of shekels monthly from the city treasury, but their funds appear to be invested primarily in cleaning luxury neighborhoods in the north. In Jaffa D, streets are flooded with waste and filth. The fact that the municipality continues to pay contractors despite the blatant neglect raises serious questions about the municipal supervision system.

The most glaring paradox is that while municipal inspectors are meticulous about issuing fines for dog waste in the north, they completely ignore the accumulating garbage piles in Jaffa D. Is this a deliberate policy of discrimination between neighborhoods?

Collapsing Infrastructure and Zero Accessibility

The state of infrastructure in Jaffa D neighborhood testifies to ongoing neglect. We documented broken sidewalks and dangerous potholes that pose a real danger to pedestrians. The situation is particularly severe for vulnerable populations – elderly, blind, and people with disabilities, for whom every sidewalk hole can become a dangerous trap. This while in the north, sidewalks are regularly maintained.

Parking Policy: Another Burden on Neighborhood Residents

In Jaffa D neighborhood, where residents already struggle with economic difficulties, the municipality chose to expand paid parking zones. Parking spaces were painted blue-and-white without any apparent planning justification, while the neighborhood is far from employment and entertainment centers.

Roosters and Noise: An Unaddressed Nuisance

As if the filth and collapsing infrastructure weren't enough, neighborhood residents also suffer from an unbearable noise nuisance from roosters, beginning as early as 2 AM. While in northern neighborhoods every noise complaint receives immediate attention, in Jaffa D complaints fall on deaf ears.

Municipality Spokesperson: Silence

Our attempts to get a response from the municipality spokesperson regarding the extreme disparities between the city's north and Jaffa D neighborhood were futile. This ignorance becomes even more severe given that the spokesperson's department, funded by public money in amounts of hundreds of thousands of shekels monthly, simply isn't functioning.

Despite the fact that the spokesperson's department is budgeted hundreds of thousands of shekels monthly for the purpose of responding to media and journalists, we are witnessing a concerning phenomenon of functional collapse in this department.

While the bank accounts of spokesperson department employees and managers continue to fill with public funds from the public treasury, the essential service for which the department was established – responding to public inquiries – is completely absent. Thus, a paradoxical situation has developed where generous salaries are paid regularly while public service is not provided at all.

Municipal Departments: Selective Supervision

The failure is not limited to the spokesperson's department alone. While in the north, municipal supervision operates at full steam, in Jaffa D it seems inspectors have simply vanished. The sanitation department, supposed to supervise cleaning contractors' work, systematically turns a blind eye to the neighborhood's severe sanitation condition.

Our comprehensive documentation reveals a harsh picture of structural discrimination in municipal management. While north Tel Aviv receives nurturing and attention, Jaffa D neighborhood has become a neglected dump. The extreme differences between parts of the city – in cleanliness, infrastructure, supervision, and municipal services – indicate a deliberate policy of neglect.

While the municipality continues to collect arnona (property tax) from Jaffa D residents and issue them parking tickets, it systematically ignores their most basic needs. The selective use of municipal budgets and lack of supervision over contractors and municipal departments in the neighborhood raise serious questions about city management's priorities.

The fact that the municipality spokesperson chooses to ignore these findings only strengthens the feeling that this is a deliberate policy of discrimination and neglect. It seems time to re-examine the distribution of municipal resources and the discriminatory treatment toward residents of the city's southern neighborhoods.