Regards From Bet Shemesh

Bet Shemesh City Councilman (and director of the planning and building committee) Moshe Montag (UTJ) wrote an op-ed in the Maariv newspaper (I do not yet see it on the Maariv website, but it was copied to the haredi sites and referenced Maariv).

I am translating it here:

Regards From Bet Shemeshby Moshe Montag

Thank you Gideon SaarFor your dedication to the security and well-being of Israeli children, for which you abandoned all your dealings and escorted little Naama to her school this morning, and you personally took care that she should not God forbid be harmed from any spitting.
I bless you for your courage, and I assume you will continue to follow this path you have forged, and that starting tomorrow you personally escort daily the tens of thousands of children from all over the country who are deathly afraid to go to their schools, and that you will protect them from their classmates who are armed with knives, fists and other vegetables.

Thank you Tzippi HotovelyFor your true and touching concern for the women of Bet Shemesh, for the poor haredi women who ride the 418 bus from bet Shemesh to Jerusalem and are forced to sit in the back section, with their head bowed, their hands tied and their faces buried in their book of Tehillim.
The residents of Bet Shemesh will be very happy if you continue to be concerned for them and talk to egged about sending newer buses, buses that don't break down at Castel and sometimes even catch fire. And maybe, if it is possible, to bring the ticket price down.
Of course, don't forget to bring along photographers to record your sincere concern for the people of Bet Shemesh.

Thank You Shai GalFor saving the kosher women of Israel from the black hooves, and you have exposed the small nuclear reactor hiding on Hazon Ish Street in Bet Shemesh in the form of a rusty aluminum sign.
Due to your great discovery, the Kirya Haredit in Bet Shemesh has merited being exposed in an historic and unprecedented manner, and maybe ow, because of you, the residents who have been discriminated against all these years will now merit a small garden that hasn't existed, a children's park that has been missing from the horizon and was never installed by the Iryah, to cleaner streets and organized removal of trash.
The one who began the work, we tell him to finish it. So, I request of you to be concerned for the women of the Kirya, and a bit for their kids as well, and continue your fight until they merit reasonable living conditions just like their secular brethren in the nearby neighborhoods.
You have proven you know how to make the entire country jump, so quickly get to work. The residents are already preparing for you an honorary resident award for your courageous work on their behalf.

Thank you Benjamin NetanyahuFor your brilliant suggestion to divide Bet Shemesh into 2 cities. A brilliant proposal. It is also not difficult to understand what inspired you. After dividing Bet Shemesh, the new map will look like one of your better known features - a zigzag.
I want to tell you something, Mr. Prime Minister, that maybe you do not already know. The many apartments that have been built in the haredi parts of the city bring much money into the coffers of the city, along with the budgets of "Old vs New" which are completely directed, with no exceptions, to the secular half of the city.
With these monies is already being built a city cultural center, community centers, and in the last term alone more than ten secular and traditional neighborhoods alone have been renovated in which not a single haredi lives. The entire old city has undergone a comprehensive upgrade - and all from the money of the haredim buying new apartments.
Believe me, the residents of the haredi neighborhoods and Ramat Bet Shemesh will be happy to hear that these great sums of money will now be invested in their own neighborhoods.
Divide the city, and be flooded with thousands of thank you letters in the color black.

Thank You To Yair LapidFor your great actions there is no need to elaborate. You have proven to everybody with a brilliant article in which you showed the biggest fool in the city that our great city has turned black. You have dragged with you the entire media , half of those sitting in Knesset and almost the entire government, that they all have stated that bet Shemesh is a haredi city.
Thank you for saving the city of Bet Shemesh a lot of money, as they were planning to begin a secular rebranding campaign, that was supposed to start very soon, that would have cost hundreds of thousands of shekels in order to attract secular and Dati Leumi communities to Bet Shemesh. because of your exposure, we can bury the campaign. No secular person will now come to Bet Shemesh. The city treasurer will surely send you a letter of gratitude.
I am confident that also the Tzemach Hammerman company that is now building 350 apartments for the secular in the city, and also those behind the "Pinui Binui" project that includes 1600 apartments for the secular alone in the heart of Bet Shemesh - will thank you greatly for your great assistance in their marketing.
You should be proud of your achievement.
And, by the way, I have a word of advice for the next round. On the back of an 8 year old girl you brought yourself 15 seats in the polls. On the back of a 12 year old girl you would get at least 24.