Like many headlines around the world, most of the main headlines in Israel these days relate to COVID-19 – sickness rates, healing rates, policy updates, efforts to cure and prevent.
But what else interests Jerusalemites, especially at a time when everyone is at home? Garbage. And, despite it all, garbage – and cleaning it up – is still making news in Jerusalem.
Two articles were recently published in the local Hebrew press, in Jerusalem’s Kol Ha’Ir newspaper. One (here’s the link to the Hebrew article) was about the Jerusalem Municipality cleaning up Public Private Spaces before the Passover holiday (you can read here about the Municipality’s decision to be responsible for their cleaning):
Screen shot of Kol Ha’Ir article, April 9
And the other is about the significant increase in home trash as a result of lockdown and shelter in place regulations. Here’s the link to that Hebrew article.
Screen shot of second Kol Ha’Ir article, April 11
Thanks to the Little Prince – Cleaning Up Jerusalem Together for putting cleaning up Jerusalem on the public agenda, where it has stayed, despite the COVID-19 crisis.
And thank you to the Jerusalem Foundation and to the Rayne Foundation for their support of the Little Prince.
