The municipality of Tel-Aviv, Ofra’s birthplace, decided not to name a street in the city after her

One of the issues discussed at the last meeting of the Committee of names of the Tel – Aviv municipality is a change in commemoration of Ofra Haza. Council members Arnon Giladi and Shlomo Maslawi (Likud) raised, not for the first time, a request that was already coordinated with Ofra’s family to change her memorial from the Ofra Hill to one of the main street in Hatikva neighborhood, where Ofra was born and raised. “I think the hill is not enough respect for the status of Ofra Haza and the city should call a main street after her,” says Maslawi.

Most committee members agreed to consider the transfer of Haza memorial garden to a street, but rejected the option to do so at the expense of one of the main streets in Hatikva neighborhood.

For now what prevents the change is a bureaucratic problem: according to the law, a memorial can not be transported from place to place, and if the garden memorial will be canceled it would have to take at least 5 years before a street can be named after Ofra Haza. Therefore, in the near future Maslawi and Giladi will turn to the Interior Minister Eli Yishai and request exemption from the cooling period in this case.