Knesset Education Committee - 24/12/2018 - "remove the antennas in front of ORT HOLON in 3 months"

Today (24/12/2018) I took part in the Knesset Education Committee.
After a 1 hour discussion, the committee called for the removal of all the mast in 3 months.
This is after kids in this scall developed radiation sickness symptoms (about 59% according to a survey done by the parents ).

This is what happens (and will happen again and again) when the standards are based on heat only and are high and non-protective.

https://youtu.be/54DiYKGecYw

Press the "CC" button on the video youtube GUI to select English subtitles.

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

Kinda-garden complex was build next to cellphone masts in Natanya, Israel.

Kinda-garden complex was build next to cellphone masts in Natanya, Israel. The complex of 7 kinda-gardens was build less then 50 meters from one site of cellular phone mast in a larger distance from a second cell mast site.
In this complex, around 250 3-5 years old kids just started the new school year.
The outcome of the radiation test that were done according to the repents' request , by a tester they hired, was higher than the test done by the municipal tester. The levels in the complex were from 0.1 to 0.8 uW/cm2.
The parents demanded that RF radiation protection will be installed in the yard, in the shape of poles with metal nets that will block most of the RF so the levels will not exceed 0.2 uW/cm2.
After lots of discussion with the municipality of Natanya, the city agreed to deploy the protection.

Picture form Maariv site -

Google Translate of the article - https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.maariv.co.il%2Fnews%2Fisrael%2FArticle-494062&edit-text=&act=url

A petition to remove "Section 34" of the "Pergola Law", that ease adding cellphone antennas to existing masts, in Israeli Supreme Court"

This week a petition was filled to the Israeli Supreme court in order to delay or to remove section 34 of the "Pergola Law" which will make it very easy to the cellphone companies to add antennas to an already existing antenna site/mast, without giving the public a right to resist the installation.

The petition was filed by attorney Michael which represents the "Forum for sane cellphone use".

The petition asks that section 34 of the pergolas will be removed or alternatively delay it's implementation  until the Supreme Court decision on the issue.


The Reasons for the petition:

1. Section 34 come in conflict with the Israeli non-ionizing radiation law
2. The "Pergolas Law" discussed the issue of light construction and should not interfere with the issues of establishing cellular antennas. 
3. Installation is in contrary to the temporary order of  the Supreme Court on "wireless access devices". 
4. Section 34 that deals with cellphone antennas was "hide" in-between other sections of the law which  related to building permits. 
5. Violation of civil rights to oppose cellular antennas that will lead to the establishment of thousands of additional antennas without public consent.

What does section 34 allow? 

Cellphone companies will be able to add new cellphone antenna to an existing site using an expedited procedure of approval, without the possibility of the local authority or the public to resist the installation.
As a result, people who live opposite the existing antennas site (mast) will wake-up one morning and will see new antennas in front of their houses, that emit  more and more frequencies, that will radiate them throughout the day.
It will also allow the cellular companies to install and make infrastructure changes to the roof and the building on which the antennas are installed on, such as new fences (that hide the antenna) or new power transmission lines to the antennas, or massive air condition systems that cool off the antenna equipment room.


What will change because of section 34? 

In the past eight years, mobile operators install their antennas, using a law breach, inside small 80X50X30 boxs, calling them "wireless access devices". Using this law breach they were not obligated to inform the public about any future installation and the public had no way to resist. This conflict the "Israeli non-ionizing radiation law and caused thousands of victims of antennas that one morning wake-up having new cellphone antennas installed next to their homes, without their ability to resist the installation.

In 2008 a petition was submitted to the supreme court which claimed that the breach was not meant for cellphone antennas and that cellphone companies should not install cellphone antennas as  "wireless access devices".

Lately, after more than six years of legal activity to close the loophole, and when it seems that the Israeli Attorney General and the Supreme Court understood that cellular companies should not and could not use the loophole, the cellphone companies seems to have found an other way to install cellphone antennas without going through all the necessary procedure and to safe time and money on the back of the public.

Now, the Minister of internal affairs, Ms Gidon Sa'ar,  seems to have sold-out the public to the cellular companies and inserted section 34 of the "Pergola Law" that will  allow the cellphone companies to add new cellphone antennas to an existing. For example, if there is a mast of one cellphone company, the 4 other cellphone companies will be able to add their own sets of antenna on to this mast with very short legal procedure and without knowing the public. The public which lives or work next to the mast will be exposed to more broadcasters in more frequencies and to more lobes of RF radiation.

The cellphone companies will have to get the approval of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, but his opinion is based only on a "Thermal" standard and on lack of understanding of the biological effect of RF radiation. Have no doubt, the radiation from the antennas is not healthy and so is the radiation mobile wireless equipment.

Section 34 is a fraud!

5 people killed in a gas blast that is suspected to be related to cellphone antennas on the roof of the building

 picture from - http://www.timesofisrael.com/death-toll-rises-to-four-in-acre-building-collapse/

The Gas blast happened yesterday (17/02/2014) night at 2 AM, killing 5 people, including one 8 year old, and 10 people were wounded. The three story building collapsed on the people sleepping inside of it. Magen david (ambulance services), fire brigades, IDF rescue teams rushed to the area to dig out the survivors and bodies and to supply some emergency medical assistance to the wounded that were later evacuated to hospitals in northern Israel.
Later on today, the brother of one of the victims, argue the the family received threats over the installation and activation of a cellphone mast on the roof of the building.

It seems that in Israel, struggles over the existence of cellphone mast near and in urban areas are sometime escalating into violence. In other cases people wait in vain for the law and courts to help them.
I must say that I think that turning to violence is a wrong move. I am very sorry for the people who died tonight and would like to offer my condolences to the families. On the other hand I think that installing cellphone mast in urban areas are also an act of violence and bulliness even that today it is legal.


Links:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4489100,00.html
http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Two-killed-six-injured-in-Acre-building-collapse-341625
http://www.timesofisrael.com/death-toll-rises-to-four-in-acre-building-collapse/
http://www.debka.com/newsupdatepopup/7251/

Cellphone antenna's were removed from a building in haifa

The city of Haifa managed to band the hand of cellular companies, in order to remove cellphone antennas from the balconies of an apartment in the city of Haifa. Residence and activist struggled the antennas since 2007!. The antennas where removed by the cellphones companies after the city municipality issues letters in which they give advance notice before cutting off the electricity to the apartment. The companies tried to object to the the municipality but where turned away by the municipality appeal committee.

This case prove that if the committee authority relay wants to help it's citizens in the fight against cellphones antennas it can always find a way to do it.

Video about the case (In Hebrew): http://youtu.be/NZOfuEn45M0

2 new cellphones' operators in Israel

‎2 new cellphones' operators in Israel, each will install 3000 new cellphone mast.

Things are getting worst.

Here is a translation to English of article that crossed the news this week in Israel about the move:

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=iw&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ynet.co.il%2Farticles%2F0%2C7340%2CL-4055163%2C00.html

Here is one voice that fear that we will all pay with more RF exposure.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=iw&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ynet.co.il%2Farticles%2F0%2C7340%2CL-4056595%2C00.html

Green cellphone antenna - good or bad?

http://www.greenairwireless.com/technology.html

I think that some radiation is still being emitted from the mobile phone, and since I think there is no safe level of EMR radiation than this is still bad.

In addition this kind of solutions can, at the end, encourage people to use their mobile phones, and by that will eventually increase the EMR levels that the public is exposed to both from the antenna and the mobile phone.

There is no magic solution for this issue. I guess that this green antenna can be part of a wider solution that will lower the radiation levels that the public is exposed to both from the mobile phone and from the antennas.

The first step is to admit that we have a problem, then try to reduce the usage, then try to create a safer solution.

Mobile phone masts cause cancer in spain

Where ever you look you mobile phone masts and people who live nearby! This article brings the story of people who live, work and study near mobile phone masts (written in several languages).

What would you do if you would get out one day and see a new mobile phone mast just next to your house, workplace, school? What would you do it people will start getting ill? Would you move? Would you change your work or get you children out of school? Would you protest?

http://www.next-up.org/Newsoftheworld/SchoolsEcoles.php