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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:15:44 +0530
| the va'ad squad? Kolkata Konversations?
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The va'ad squad
By KARIN KLOOSTERMAN
There's a small war going on at number 119 Rehov Dizengoff in Tel Aviv.
The 1936 UNESCO-registered Bauhaus building that sits next to the
legendary Caf Kassit is the battlefield of a typical Israeli phenomenon
- a va'ad habayit (house committee) dispute.
Caught in the crossfire is 32-year-old Yannai G., a London native who
assumed the volunteer position as head of the va'ad bayit when the
previous volunteer sold her apartment. She called Yannai two years ago,
begging him to take the position, he said, because "no one else wanted it."
Since his family had owned a large apartment in the complex for 26
years, Yannai reasoned that by being in charge of maintenance and
repairs, he could help protect the building's property value. Assuming
his duties, he decided to install a real-time security camera in order
to ward off some of Dizengoff's swarthier characters, such as the
heroine addicts who had been found shooting up in the building's
backyard. The other residents in the building agreed that a camera was a
great idea.
cont'd....
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