As of this coming Sunday, you will no longer be able to use Pango to pay for your parking in many cities around Israel. You'll have to go back to the old fashioned method of buying the parking tickets from machines or kiosks and attach them to the window of your car.

The Supreme Court rejected the request of Pango to extend its contract with the municipal governments.

The list of cities in which Pango will no longer work include Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Petach Tikva, Bnei Braq, Eilat, Givat Shmuel, Nazareth, Nahariya, Rosh Haayin, Ness Ziona, Carmiel and others.

If Pango does not succeed in signing new contracts directly with each city individually, Pango will no longer work in those cities. In some of those cities you will still be able to use CelloPark, Pango's competitor, but not in all the cities.

The problem that has led to this is a gap in the period between the expiry of the previous contract and the publication of the results of the new tender. Because of some legal issues, the previous contract had been shortened, creating this gap.

TheMarker has a nice table depicting what works in which city:


So, pay attention to where you park and how you can pay so that you don't end up with a parking ticket...

And hopefully they will work all this out quickly, and even allow competition rather than just one option.