Tel Aviv-Jaffa Mayor Ron Huldai responded on Sunday to the criticism over the state of the infrastructure in the Hatikva neighborhood in the city that caused the flooding and led to the deaths of Dean Shoshani and Stav Harari when an elevator flooded on Saturday.
In an interview on Channel 12 News, Huldai rejected claims that the drainage system in the city has been lagging behind for decades. "Wrong, that’s the populism that every interviewer starts with. The Tel Aviv-Jaffa drainage system is a good drainage system, the drainage system in the south of the city is no less good than that in the north of the city.”
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