We’ve come a long way in Cleaning Up Jerusalem Together. This year, just before the Passover Seder, our Tal Kligman was able to take a moment to see how far we’ve come, in this Facebook post:
Cleaning right before Passover
A few hours before the Passover Seder, 3:00 PM, and finishing up my last two errands. My small daughter fell asleep in the back seat, so I continue to drive, meandering through the neighborhoods. There is silence in the streets, when everyone is at home, preparing for the holiday. But not everyone. The only (almost) people still out on the streets are the sanitation workers. Beit Vegan, Ein Kerem, Kiryat Hayovel, Beit Hakerem and Kiryat Menachem, garbage trucks all over. 3-5 workers on each truck, moving cans, emptying them. The holiday is nearly upon us, and here they are, working, and making such an effort so that we can have clean streets for the holiday.
It’s true, alongside rows of clean garbage cans there were many that were not. There were also residents who piled trash on benches or next to stores that weren’t cleaned up. There were cans that were emptied but the garbage that fell to the ground stayed there. There was a little bit of everything.
But hey, there are municipal employees who are still working and at 3:15 on a holiday eve, and the Jerusalem Municipality is still apparently awake.
More cleaning right before Passover
My holiday blessing: I hope that we continue our joint efforts to clean up our beloved city, that this effort will become routine, that residents from all the communities will help the sanitation teams and put the garbage in the garbage cans, that the infrastructure will grow and meet the needs of the residents, and that we’ll be able to plan and bring the plans to fruition, the Municipality and residents, the way to a clean Jerusalem. Because the city belongs to all of us and we all want a clean Jerusalem…Thank you sanitation workers for your efforts and willingness, and for not skipping over my small, inaccessible alley.
Happy and clean holiday for everyone.
Here’s the post in Hebrew:
Many thanks to the Jerusalem Foundation and to the Rayne Foundation for their support of the Little Prince.
