J'lem homeless step up fight for 'a home for every Israeli'

[struggle4progress]

Jul. 2, 2007 21:07 | Updated Jul. 2, 2007 21:26
By NOACH LAWRENCE

on Monday evening to demand that every Israeli homeless person be given a decent home, as the group continued to maintain a tent camp in a Jerusalem park as part of their struggle.

The group, which began the march from an encampment in the city's Kikar Moshe Bar-Am where they have been living in 20 tents for the past three weeks, launched the march to protest the fact that some 53,000 Israelis remain homeless, according to Ayala Sabag, the group's leader.

"These are people without a mouth to speak, like the son in the Pessah Seder who does not know how to ask," she said. She insisted that the encampment would remain in place "until the State of Israel gives every Israeli a home."

Members of the group will also visit the Knesset Economics Committee next week at the invitation of MK Ran Cohen (Meretz). ~snip~

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[tigereye]

1. I would not have expected so many homeless in Israel

that is kind of a shock... :(

are financial and housing conditions that poor? It also seems to fly in the face of the philosphy of Israel as a whole...

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. Same here. Very saddening.