Haifa mayor Yona Yahav spoke this past Monday with Lior Rosenfeld on Radio North 104.5FM about the escalation of the war in the North and his entry into political office amidst the security situation. Yahav began, "I cannot speak on behalf of the North as I don't know exactly what's happening there.
No one updates me, as if we are not the largest and most important city in the North. Tomorrow, the is coming to see us for the first time, and we will see what they have to say. We are doing everything to ensure that the city itself and our residents are safe and know what to do in case, God forbid, missiles fall on us.
They are more accurate than those in 2006." Yahav also discussed the city's preparations for a . "We are now changing the entire method of building public structures," Yahav said.
"We are preparing them for prolonged stays. The minimum will be four consecutive days in shelters and such buildings, which require preparation. For example, installing toilets, which we don't have today, and we have given instructions to build them in places close to where new houses are being built.
This has been fully understood, and developers have begun to understand that the talk about evacuation and reconstruction has undergone drastic changes in light of the security situation. For example, road width needs to be maintained for the sake of evacuating residents on these roads. These are things that were not considered until now and must now be taken into account.
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