tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045462.post113999415871157809..comments2023-09-05T18:37:20.023+03:00Comments on Nafka Mina: The Joys of Israeli BureaucracySharvulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04287632945558341969noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045462.post-1142775690001483332006-03-19T15:41:00.000+02:002006-03-19T15:41:00.000+02:00My sympathies are with you. Having been there and ...My sympathies are with you. Having been there and done that I cannot think of anything helpful to say. But just think, you can now join the elite club of "nuts who built their own houses in Israel". We are a unique network bonded for eternity by common trauma. Some deal with the stress by boasting at the glories of their building prowess. Others compare horror stories .<BR/> There is a brief period of calm after you move in and then a second wave starts. It may be rising damp or getting sued for building a hut without the approriate planning permission, and all sorts of tax backpayments. We were told we had to repave the public path outside the gate. It looks fine to me. A lorry bringing earth knocked down a street lamp near our house. We paid for five lorries of earth and got only three. The chap who made our garden wall threatened to bodily harm my husband. Oh, and the best part of all, half way through the building, the workers disappeared.<BR/>So, welcome to the club oh brave one. Just see it as another super human test on life's long journey.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9045462.post-1142290848059105572006-03-14T01:00:00.000+02:002006-03-14T01:00:00.000+02:00This is why everyone does everything in Israel... ...This is why everyone does everything in Israel... illegally! If you try and do things the way the bureaucrats want, you will NEVER, EVER get anything done.<BR/><BR/>There is also the other method - "Chaim Yesader", i.e. pay a "fixer" to pay off the bureaucrats to get the appropriate licenses and approvals. This is often why they stymie all of your legal efforts to get things done; it is more personally profitable for them to frustrate you into bribing them to just do what they are already paid to do.<BR/><BR/>The upcoming elections will be partly based on the public's disgust with widespread corruption at all levels of government in Israel. Your experience is perfectly typical of trying to get ANYTHING done in Israel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com