Where will they stay?
I hope there's something here we're not being told, and that our government is at least supplying temporary shelter. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with director-generals of government ministries to discuss assistance for those affected by the Carmel range wildfires. Netanyahu instructed the Finance Minister director-general to allocate an immediate grant of NIS 2,500 ($690) to each citizen who lost his or her home, in order to help them buy essentials and school equipment.Where are these people staying? Are they giving this allowance per kid or per family? Anyone know?
For those wondering why people aren't insured.... Most Israelis only carry insurance on the structure in which they live - and then only because the banks won't give a mortgage without it. Contents insurance is something only the Americans bother to buy, although more Israelis are buying it now than did 20 years ago when we arrived here. It's quite expensive because it takes some doing to get them not to insure everything you list at replacement cost.
You can file claims for lost property with the tax authority and you will get some money back. But it's nowhere near covering your loss. You can only come close to covering what you lost with private insurance.
Yes, this is one of the vestiges of being a socialist paradise.
Labels: arson, Carmel forest, forest fire, Haifa
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:54 AM
1 Comments:
This is a country that can't resettle people it forcibly evicted from the Gush Katif. Heaven knows what's it going to do if it ever gets around to a mass uprooting of the revanants. And here Israel will never be to make another group of people completely whole. Its just not an issue of property loss. Its the change in people's lives that are never going to be the same again.
What could go wrong indeed
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