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Sunday, October 5, 2014

Israeli supreme court sitting on "wireless access devices" installation by the cell phone companies

In the last 10 years, cellphone companies are installing cell phone antennas, which are inserted into small boxes, called "wireless access devices" while using a breach in the law.
This way the municipal authorities and citizens can't object to the installation in building approval committees. For the cellphone companies it is a quick, easy and cheap way to install a cellphone mast on buildings in side neighborhoods. For the citizens this is a total nightmare as they getup in the morning finding our that a cellphone antenna was installed few meters from their windows. Over the year cellphone companies installed most of their antennas using this breach. Since 2012 only the 2 new companies are allowed to do so.


In the picture - "wireless access device" with cellphone antennas inside


The issue has been submitted to the supreme court in 2008, by several plaintiff and have been conducting since. Over the year the use of the beach was restricted so only the "new" cellphone companies would be able to install up to 40% of their antennas using the breach.

This week there was an additional court sitting that took more than 4 hours. During the court sitting all the sides were heard and the court tried to get to the button of the issue cover most, if not all, sides , aspect, history and side effects.
Attorney Michael Bach, representing (Pro Bono) the "Forum for sane cellular" presented his claims to the court.

The court asked the sides to achieve a compromised agreement in the following 120 days, based on a compromised proposal from 2010 that will allow all companies to use the breach to install 5% of their antennas and to change the location and position of antennas in existing setups.
The sides can submit a reply in 30 days.

In a personal note- it seems that the court respects the needs and interest of the cellphone companies more then it respects the rights and suffering of citizens.

The court's decision (in Hebrew)





Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Anti cellphone Antenna rallies in Rishon Lezion, Israel

The rally took place on Sunday (06/04/2014) near the shopping center where the antennas are installed on, and Yesterfay, Monday (07/04/2014) near the Rishon Lezion town hall building.
The parents are protesting for the complete removal of the antennas. The antennas are installed on top of the shopping center building, 25-50 meters away from the Negba elementary school where about 70 kids developed headaches, stomachaches and skin rashes. Most of the kids with the symptoms learned in the classrooms facing the antennas(north side).

The protest against the antenna started a year ago and was relaunched when the parents understood that about 70 of their kids suffer from similar symptoms.
In the school itself WIFI is installed and there is no band on the operation of cellphones and wireless devices. It is our assumption that the exposure of the kids to the radiation from antennas, on top to their exposure to the radiation from the WIFI system and the cellphones in the classes, drove the kids to develop symptoms over such a short time (about a year).
According to the parents, so far the WIFI was turned off and the students are asked to turn off their cellphones when in the classes.

The parents went on strike (not sending the kids to school) a month ago which led to the closing of the WIFI and removing the kids from the north classrooms facing the antenna.
The municipality of Rishon L'tzion has, for the past year, been in unsuccessful deliberations with a cell phone company to remove their antenna. After the first strike the parents were promised that the antennas will be removed within a month. A Few days ago the antennas where still transmitting and the parents when on a strike a second time. Now the antennas are currently not working, but they can be turned on in a meter of an hour or two. The parents continue their struggle demanding to remove the antennas completely .

Video of the rally on Sunday - youtu.be/cW_NGgqZnYk