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| Usin Environment and Empowerment to Prevent Crime: The Dimona Mezila Project |
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Yamit Alfassi |
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Policy |
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Innovation Exchanche No. 13 |
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02/02/2007 |
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Dimona is a town of about 40,000 people situated in Israel’s sparsely populated southern desert region and the Kovshei Eilat neighborhood is one of the town’s oldest ― fourteen forty-year-old four-storey apartment blocks that have not been renovated since they were first built. There are no tenants’ committees in these blocks (as there are all over Israel) because the tenants cannot organize themselves sufficiently for the task, and there is no lighting in the stairwells because the tenants cannot/will not make sure that the electricity bill is paid regularly.
In 2005, Metzilah (the Ministry sponsored local Councils for the Prevention of Violence in Israel) decided to try and equip the Kovshei Eilat residents with the tools to combat the problems of drugs and violence their adolescents were up against.
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