Video - ORT HOLON fight to remove the cell phone mast continues

A video presenting the fight of ORT HOLON parents for the removal of a cell phone mast is available at
https://youtu.be/zxDE_di-ThE

In front of ORT HOLON, a High school in the city of HOLON in Israel,  a cell phone mast was erected 23 years ago.  With the increase of Data usage, the exposure levels of the kids went up every year. last year, the parents noticed that most of the kids (59%) had symptoms that can be related to the RF exposure from the cell phone mast just 20 meters from the school. They conducted a survey that shows 59% of the kids has symptoms. about 19% already visit their doctor in relation to these symptoms. Since the parents understood this is not just one or 2 kids, but most of the kids, they started to fight for the removal of the mast.

Two weeks ago, after a meeting in the Knesset Internal affair and environmental protection committee, 3 antennas that faced the school (outs of a total of 9) were removed. The measured/monitor radiation levels went done just 30%. Side lobes and reflection steel seems to hit the school.

Now the parents call for complete removal of the mast. Yesterday they got the support of the Knesset Education committee that called for the removal of the mast in no more than 3 months.

More post about this subject:
https://norad4u.blogspot.com/2018/12/knesset-education-committee-24122018.html
https://norad4u.blogspot.com/2018/12/progress-or-spin-in-ort-holon-3-antenna.html
https://norad4u.blogspot.com/2018/11/knesset-israel-parliament-committee.html
https://norad4u.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-atorothies-try-to-calm-parents-of.html
https://norad4u.blogspot.com/2018/10/about-60-of-students-in-ort-holon-are.html
https://norad4u.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-cell-phone-tower-next-to-school-in.html

Progress or Spin in ORT HOLON - The 3 antenna panels that were facing the school were removed - RFR level still high!

Last week the 3 antenna panels that were facing the school were removed.
RF measurements done by the parents in the school and a monitoring equipment on the roof show the levels of RFR were cut (by about 50%) but are still high.
The level is too high for students that already developed symptoms and are more sensitive.
In addition, they are not low enough for the temp protection that was installed to be removed.
I explained to the parents that the levels will stay high because of side and back lobes and also reflections from the building next by since there are still active panels which are not facing the school. I told the parents to expect kids that got sick, to continue to suffer from symptoms.
Although the strick is over at this point in time, the parents told me that they will continue to fight for the removal of all the mast in other means.

RFR levels before the removal, when the mast was turned off and after the removal

Knesset (Israel Parliament) committee meeting about the cell tower next to ORT HOLON - "Remove the antennas tomorrow morning"

Yesterday I attended the Knesset (Israel Parliament) committee meeting about the cell tower next to ORT HOLON.
In the meeting, the problem of the cell tower next to the ORT HOLON school was presented and diseased.  The parents presented their case and talked about the suffering of the kids in school. Both the parents of the late Itai Peretz talked about this griff and about the symptoms Itai (my his soul rest in peace) suffered from before he got sick, with leukemia.
In the meeting, Maya Elhalal, e leading Israeli high-tech interposure and consultant to the ministry of health talked about his EHS condition in support of the parents of ORT Holon and the kids. She argued that the science today already inform us that EMF radiation causes biological effect well under the so-called safety standards limits and that we can do better than what we did about smoking and asbestos, and lead.
The represented of the cell phone forum (PR body of the cell phone companies) was willing to dismantle the 3 antenna panels that face the school but said that the rest of the tower have to stay and this will be done only if the parents will stop their protest and strick.
The head of the committee summaries the meeting and said the committee will send a letter to the cell phone companies to dismantle the 3 panels addressing the school "tomorrow morning" (meaning very soon) as a first step while they should start the relocation process of the remaining cell phone tower.

About the meeting (Google translator) MARIV - https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.maariv.co.il%2Fnews%2FEducation%2FArticle-670904&edit-text=

Meeting videos (in Hebrew) - https://m.knesset.gov.il/Activity/committees/InternalAffairs/Pages/CommitteeTVarchive.aspx?TopicID=19231

Closing summaries by the chairman (Hebrew) - https://youtu.be/zmSjCYOBZGw

Maya Elhalal (Hebrew) - https://youtu.be/L9UZjRPMcx4

Picture - from the meeting

The authority try to calm the parents of students in ORT HOLON after feeling radiation sickness symptoms

Last week there was a meeting between representatives of the Environmental Protection Ministry, The city municipality,  the school management, ORT schools network management in Israel , and the parents of students in the ORT HOLON school.
About 20 years ago, a cell tower was erected next to the school (20 meter from it). This year the parents finally noticed that their kids suffer from headaches, nausea, fatigue and other radiation sickness symptoms.  Last year one of the students in this school died from cancer.  The parents went on a struggle to take the tower done and they are on a two month strike in order to achieve that.
Please read more about it at this post - https://norad4u.blogspot.com/2018/10/about-60-of-students-in-ort-holon-are.html
I saw few parts of the meeting on videos and was sorry to see that all the official representatives were addressing only the quick return of the kids to school and not the removal of the antenna. The ministry representative, Prof Gelberg told the parents all kind of technical stuff that were not accurate and very simplified and somewhat misleading, like for example that he prefer cellphone towers on public buildings and that bellow and above the main lobe of the antenna there is no radiation (neglecting side lower/higher beams - see picture below). He also argued that the ministry is responsible only to the radiation and measurement side of the antenna, forgetting to note that the standards used are based on heat only and are not protective of humans, that the measurements are done by slow meters and therefor give partial results. I saw the municipality representative saying they can't do anything to help, that the tests are OK and the antenna have all the documentation (other municipalities helped in the past by finding problems in the structure or the infrastructure around the antenna and demanding it to be remove on that ground). Then the representative of ORT said that all they want is the return of the kids to school in the quickest and best way (but what about the kids that are already sick and the kids that will be sick from the radiation? ).

During the meeting there was a protest outside the school.

There is going to be a meeting in the Israeli parliament this week (15/11/2018) about this issue. In the meeting we expect to hear the same "not my responsibility" talks, but we hope to say the truth: Standards are high and non-protective, measurements are not done adequately, people are getting sick and everyone else just want to continue with their daily rothin.

Links (Google translated, the original is in hebrew):
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=iw&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hashikma-holon.co.il%2Feducation%2F24128&edit-text=&act=url


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