Tonight, Wednesday 2.6.10 at 7PM a Modiin city council meeting will be held in the municipality building, 1 Tiltan St. The first item on the agenda is a proposal for the municipality to appeal to Bagatz against the CAA landing path of jet planes over the heart of Modiin-Maccabim-Reut.
The appeal to Bagatz is our last chance to divert away from the city’s populated areas the jet planes that will start landing over our heads on July 1st 2010.
During the past few days we met with several key city council members and we asked for their support for the appeal to Bagatz. There are still quite a few city council members who have not made up their mind. Some of the city council members are influenced by pressure from the mayor, and they hesitate from going against the mayor’s position, who opposes the appeal to bagatz - despite the fact that mayor Bibas explicitly promised Modiin residents that he will exhaust all options at our disposal in order to prevent the noise and pollution from these jet planes.
Therefore it is imperative that as many Modiin-Maccabim-Reut residents show up tonight at 6:45PM at the municipality building, and stare at their elected representatives in the eye, and ask them to serve their constituents, and appeal to Bagatz. Please print and hold in your hands this simple message, or attach it to your shirt.
Please also email today the city council members using this email address: council@modiin.us . It's enough to write a title like "please decide to appeal to Bagatz against the landing path!" and to sign your name. If you have any connection to specific city council members, now is the time to contact them and ask them to support the appeal to Bagatz. Their contact info is available here.
The call to appeal to Bagatz is backed by both Green parties, who rarely unite on anything: The Green party leader in Modiin, council member Alex Weinreb, who picked up the gauntlet and submitted the proposal to appeal to Bagatz to city council, as well as Eitan Keter Yaakov, the head of the Modiin branch of “ha’tnuaa ha’yeruka”.
Please remind yourself how the Modiin public rallied in their masses in July last year, when about a 1,000 residents drove in a convoy of 350 cars to Ben Gurion Airport to protest the aviation authorities decision to setup a flight path over the heart of Modiin. Recall also the declarations made by Haim Bibas that if the path is not shifted to the unpopulated areas, then we will go back to appeal to Bagats. Watch this video from the protest last July:
http://www.flix.co.il/tapuz/showVideo.asp?m=3310243
If a large number of Modiin-Maccabim-Reut turn up tonight we stand a good chance of affecting the decision. Be there!
Please see our Hebrew Website for more details.
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