The end of the beach

Are the buyers who bought villas in Arsof that will soon collapse with the rise of the sea level allowed to deny the public access to the sea? opinion

There is a lot of reference to the Corker cliff along our coast. Not many refer to the spines on top of the cliff. From the southern border to Haifa Bay, the top of the cliff is decorated with dunes fixed by vegetation. The narrower and shallower the stretch of sand hills becomes. Substantial parts of the hills have disappeared under the pressure of development. Other, small and few parts became reserves.

Below is a confession. As a child I used to walk in the sandy hills west of Shafiim. In the winter on top of the cliff to watch the storms and try to find what the sea threw up. In the summer: we walked among the sand hills that were covered with figs and grapes / spring would paint the depressions between the hills with a variety of blooming colors. The beach could be reached in a large wadi that went down to the sea from the northwest. We preferred the wild beaches to the west of which we went down in small wadis. After a ship ran aground and became a center of attraction we would go down to the shore in one wadi, go north to the ship and go up in a southern wadi. For many years I have not been or walked in the area until today - on Passover Eve following news about what was happening in Arsov I went out to "investigate", I went out and was hurt.

beyond lamentationAs I already mentioned, parts of the coastal dunes have become reserves. To the west of Shafim and to the north, such a reserve was declared and fenced off to prevent harm to people. Instead of the multitude of anemones, chrysanthemums, tulips and others, the area is covered with the Sita that originates in Australia and the Sherbitan that originates in the Negev. The grape vines and figs have no trace but this is only a side note as I went mainly to see the wound which is called Arsuf. Most of the headlines in recent times have been about sewage... I really don't care who stinks up who in the illusory neighborhood as long as the sewage is not discharged into the sea.

It is the right of those Shiites of the land to build their palaces in each other's butts, their right even to fence their neighborhood and post a guard at the entrance. I asked the guard and it turns out that he knows that he is not allowed to prevent the entry of the common people, except for those passers-by who want to see how the Shiites bite each other's butts, there is no reason to enter To the neighborhood, the access to the cliff is blocked by the fences of the houses, a sign at the entrance announces that "there is no descent to the sea". The neighborhood plan was approved before the three-hundred-meter law, so there should be no complaints to those whose houses are close to the sea. One day, ten or maybe twenty years from now, the houses will collapse into the sea, which will spoil them. Blocking access to the cliff is brazen. Blocking the descent into the wadis borders on crimes. Where are the PA inspectors who will prevent rich X from dumping construction waste into the wadi? The view that X will see from his house will be a huge wall that Mrs. Y is building. That he will be disturbed again and again, the right of those who can afford to build illusions as much as the law allows, as much as the law allows, the present law says without interference. Passing through public areas and certainly without throwing construction waste into the public domain.

It would have been appropriate for the construction inspectors, the local authority inspectors, the parks authority inspectors to fulfill their duties and prevent offenses, even when they are committed by our residents.