As a re-elected mayor of Rehovot Shuki Forer must enforce Weizmann Institute pay local city taxes

The decision by israel Ministry of Internal Affairs made decades ago allowed Weizmann Institute not to pay local taxes. This was during the times the science existed for science, not money. Weizmann Institute presently is not a not-for-profit institution. It generates income through a variety of mechanisms, using it's commercialization daugther firm called Teva. Such tax exemption, therefore, is a basis for the curruption and financial irregularities at the Weizmann Institutes reported previously (including the report by State Comptroller). Shuki Forer previously talked on the need for the Weizmann's to pay local tazes. Therefore, as a re-elected mayor of Rehovot Shuki Forer must enforce Weizmann Institute pay local city taxes.

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Rehovot Wants Weizmann Institute to Pay Local Taxes (MyRehovot, 11/12/2004)

Excerpt: "The Rehovot municipality petitioned the High Court of Justice last week to order Minister of the Interior Avraham Poraz to cancel the Weizmann Institute's longstanding exemption from municipal property taxes. The municipality petitioned to prevent changes in the criteria that would further exempt Weizmann Institute from municipal taxes.

The petition states that in February 2003, the High Court of Justice ruled in favor of the Rehovot municipality and ordered the Ministry of the Interior to reconsider Weizmann Institute's exemption from municipal taxes, and to set criteria for exemptions from municipal taxes.

The Rehovot municipality claims that in the 14 months since the ruling, the Ministry of the Interior had not reviewed Weizmann Institute's eligibility for an exemption.

The municipality claims that it is absurd that the Weizmann Institute's NIS 660 million budget is 45% larger than the municipality's. The municipality claims to have a budget deficit of NIS 49 million and a cumulative deficit of NIS 130 million. It claims that Weizmann Institute should pay NIS 35 million a year in municipal taxes, which would cover two-thirds of the municipality's deficit."

Rehovot municipality head elected in second round of voting

New heads were elected in eight municipalities that have went into a second round after the first round of municipal elections did not produce a winner with a large enough percentage of the vote to take office.

In Rehovot Shuki Forer became mayor; in Ashkelon, Benny Vaknin; in Kiryat Ono Yossef Nishri was elected. Tzvi Gov-Ari became mayor of Yavneh and Ilan Shohat won the race in Safed. Nissim Malka won in Kiryat Shmona, while Nahed Khazem became mayor of Shfaram and Faiz Abu Zahban became head of the Rahat municipality.

The overall voting percentage was 56; in the Arab sector more than 80% turned up to vote, while in Jewish municipalities approximately 45% cast their ballots.

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Shuki Forer election campaign technical team members make Rehovot Mayor run a criminal affair

17:16PM 19 November 2008 - Shuki Forer technical support election campaign team members, including woman, attack bypassing pedestrrian filming Rehovot-in-election-round-2 street life.



17:16PM Shuki Forer election campaign team members beat owner and editor of MyRehovot.info, harass him (including a woman playing witch role) and say so bad about Shuki Forer on an argument that he in fact does support Forer. Violence by Forer people also caused the damage of the photography equipment.



17:50PM After an attempt to push MyRehovot's Alex to the dark side of Herzl Street Pedestrian walkside by Shuki Forer technical support election campaign team members, beaten and harassed victim escaped, crossed the street and found shelter at a shop next to a Gasoline station. Wrong doorway taken cost few more beats by angry Shuki Forer campaign staff. It took then about 25 minutes to Police to come to the stage after a call by a caring shop staff.



17:55PM Automated videomonitoring by a shop depicted the aggressors as viwed by the police officer who came to the spot shortly after a call by a shop staff. Interestingly, Shuki Forer people lied to the police, saying Alex was inside their office across the street (see video 1 to learn this is a complete lie). While awaiting for a police some other Shuki Forer tech team memners came into the shop, brought broken equipment, and asked Alex not to report to the police this sad affair. The criminal case was filed, however under the law provisions (clauses 192, 379, 452)

Top ranking of Rehovot's Weizmann Institute could be faked

IsraelToday.co.il reports that "Two Israeli universities won the top two spots in a survey by The Scientist magazine on the best places for academics to work outside the United States. Number one on the list was the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. Taking second place honors was Jerusalem's Hebrew University. The survey ranked universities by, among other things, salary, working conditions and available resources for researchers."

However, well knowing recent coppruption affairs at the Weizmann Institute of Science, enlighted by as powerful person, as previous President of WIS, Professor Ilan Chet, My Rehovot belief is that organized survey participation by Weizmann's students and academic staff may be faked and represent well planned action by the Institution Public Relation PR Department.

Uzi Salant Corruption and Shuki Forer support posters are glued to Rehovot Poster Boards by the same people

19 November 2008, 17:11PM - This video (also available at youtube.com) depicted that moment of gluing to Rehovot poster board a poster in support of Shuki Forer election campaign. Notably, a poster saying other candidate, Uzi Salant, is a currupt was fresh glued a moment earlier by the same person, indicating both posters is an affair by the same group of people.

A day before, Rehovot youth at Herzl street center reported this advocacy comes from sources other then Shuki Forer election team.

Rehovot teacher indicted for having sex with student

State files illicit sexual relations charges against woman, intimidation and obstruction of justice charges against her husband; asks court to revoke her teaching license

The Central District Prosecutor's Office filed charges of illicit sexual relations against a Rehovot high school teacher suspected of having sex with one of her 17-year-old students.

The State further filed charges against the woman's husband, for intimidation and obstruction of justice. The prosecution also asked the court to rescind the woman's teaching license.

According to the indictment, filed with the Rehovot Magistrate's Court on Monday, the teacher and her student became involved after she took an interest in his studies.



The bond formed soon became intimate, and the two allegedly began meeting in a secluded filed in one of the moshavim on the outskirts of the city, or in a nearby guesthouse.

Other sexual encounters, said the prosecution, took place at the beach, the teacher's offices and at another student's house.

The other student, made privy to the relationship, apparently videoed the two using her cell-phone camera. Once rumors about the affair began circulating, alleged the State, both students were invited to the teacher's house, where she and her husband instructed them to deny the rumors.

The husband then instructed the boy's friend to erase the videos from her cell phone. When he later learned she did not deny the rumors suggesting his wife and the boy were having an affair, he threatened her.

The Central District Prosecution claims to have a solid case against the teacher.

Attorney Yael Azmon, for the State, told the court the prosecution intends to enter into evidence detailed affidavits by the both students, tapes of confrontations between the parties and several testimonies by other students who saw the cell-phone video.

Source: Eli Senyor. YNetnews 11.10.08, 10:47 / Israel News

Kaplan hospital nurses save man who tries to commit suicide at the entrance to Rehovot's Herzl Street

A nurse at Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot used her sweater as a tourniquet to stop the profuse bleeding of a man whose foot was amputated by a railroad train when he ran towards the tracks in a suicide attempt.

A few days ago, Tami Shlomo, a pediatric nurse who was driving to Sheba Medical Center with two other nurses, was waiting for a train to pass at the exit from Rehovot. They saw a man rushing towards the train and get run over by one of the railway cars. The nurses ran out of the car to help the man, who was bleeding profusely but lay there quietly.

"It was incredible to see a man with an amputated food who didn't say anything or scream," said Shlomo. He even answered our questions about how he felt. We did all we could to keep him awake so he wouldn't lose consciousness before the ambulance arrived."

The pediatric nurse said the event was very traumatic for her, even though she was a medic in the IDF and knew what to do. After seeing the man's condition, she shouted for an elastic band, but no one had any, so he used her sweater to try to stop the bleeding.

The Magen David Adom ambulance evacuated the man to Kaplan for continued treatment, and he was admitted in stable condition. "I am proud of my hospital," said Shlomo, "and I knew he would get the best care to save his life. I called the department where he was hospitalize to check on his condition. When I heard that he was okay and that his relatives [had seen] him, I calmed down."

The three nurses will receive special recognition for their efforts from the hospital management for working quickly and properly to save a man's life.

Source: Siegel-Itzkovich J. Kaplan nurses save man who tries to commit suicide (2 Nov 2008) [FullText]