Neighbor Trying To Oust Family From Home Says Just Critical Of Their Policies

Witnesses noted that Bleeg has decried the injustice of every Harari policy that does not involve leaving.

Ramat Gan, June 19 – Controversy continues to swirl around an apartment building in this middle-class Tel Aviv suburb, where one resident of the fifth floor has called for shunning, boycotting, dehumanizing, and expelling the inhabitants of the flat next door because he disapproves of the way the couple there raises their three children. The man maintains he harbors no animosity toward those neighbors per se, and merely seeks to criticize the couple’s decisions.

Ari Bleeg, 50, began his Wednesday with his normal routine, which involves holding a placard outside the door to the Harari home across the hallway from his apartment. The placard calls the Harai family interlopers, occupiers, and myriad other terms challenging their legitimacy as leaseholders of Apartment 5C, and Mr. Bleeg wields a megaphone through which he exhorts other  neighbors and passers-by to refrain from conducting normal neighborly relations with the Harari family, including their four-year-old, seven-year-old, and nine-year-old children.

“They don’t belong here,” insists Bleeg. “I have nothing against them, but they have to leave. I don’t care that they have a deed and everything, and all their association dues are paid – I don’t accept the legitimacy of any of that. From 5A to 5C, floor five will be free!”

“Now, don’t get the wrong idea,” continued Bleeg. “I’m not objecting to their existence, just their policies.” Witnesses noted that Bleeg has decried the injustice of every Harari policy that does not involve leaving, regardless of the benefit or disadvantage to other building tenants.

Other neighbors appear divided as to the justice of Mr. Bleeg’s efforts. “I think he’s got a legitimate grievance,” remarked fourth-floor resident Jay Vipi. “He feels he’s being victimized by their presence, and justice won’t be served unless they go away. There were other families that left that he misses, and he wants them to come back and get rid of the Hararis – he blames the Hararis for driving the other families away. Not that he had a good word to say about those other tenants when they lived there, and he’s still not on speaking terms with many of the tenants who’ve been here far longer, but we hear no one liked the Hararis where they used to live, so they probably deserve this treatment.”

“We had numerous neighbor association meeting about this,” recalled an exasperated Unra Yunesco. “The association is dominated by Bleeg and his allies, or at least by those who’d rather divert attention from their own part in perpetuating or exacerbating the building’s problems, so they focus on the Hararis to the detriment of all the important issues such as the sewage issue and water damage to the roof, not to mention the fact that almost none of them adhere to the building’s no smoking policy. It’s all a front for their own shortcomings, and they’re more than happy to exploit Bleeg’s animosity.”

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