Parents and children from the Experimental School in central Jerusalem have briefly blocked traffic around the school, protesting the construction of six nearby parking towers at the expense of the school and adjacent kindergartens.
The parents claim that the municipality invaded the school grounds in the middle of the night and began hasty work to build six parking lots at the expense of the area used to pick up and drop off the school children without presenting a safety report without proper traffic planning and without checking the environmental effects of air pollution and noise. Chairman Ofir Lang of the Lev Ha'ir Community Council who is accompanying the school's parents, sent an urgent letter to the city's director general, demanding that "the work be halted immediately until the dialogue process with the school representatives is completed and an agreed arrangement is reached for the benefit of all parties concerned."