According to the courts in Tel Aviv the city is not allowed to give out parking tickets using street cameras. According to the courts, the City of Tel Aviv was not authorized to use the street cams in this fashion, and the right to privacy outweighs the need to enforce parking laws.

According to the courts, using the street cams that video the road and those who are coming and going is a breach of privacy - the city was only authorized by the Knesset to use the cameras for traffic violations on the public roads but not to deal with parking violations. According to the court, the original authorization given to the city limits what they can use the cameras for.

According to the courts, using the cameras gathers a lot of information that has nothing to do with enforcing parking laws - many people not violating any law walk in and out of the video and they get documented with whatever they are doing, what they are wearing, what businesses on the road they walk in and out of, if it is Shabbos or weekday, people who park legally, etc. This is a breach of privacy that would require authorization from the Knesset to be allowed.
source: Globes

I would expect that now that this has been determined, the local authorities will just go to the Knesset and get them to expand the authorization to include parking lots. I do not see this breach of privacy is any worse than the initial breach of privacy on the roads that the Knesset already allowed. If they allowed one, chances are good that they'll allow the other, especially as it will help the local authorities bring in a lot of money...

On the one hand, there is no privacy today anyway. Almost all those people picked up in the video are carrying cellphones with location tracking enabled (and even if disabled, it has already been exposed that Google still tracks you anyway) and pretty much everything you do and everywhere you go is exposed and available to the public. This does not seem like a big deal. And, if they can get people to park better, such as taking up only one parking space instead of two or three or not parking in driving lanes, it is probably worth it.

On the other hand, perhaps the government has too much power anyway, and it is good to limit them a little bit. Even though here they'll just be helping themselves to authorize it, in the meantime - until they do, don't just give them that power and access.

In Israel a sense of entitlement is known as "Magia Lee" - מגיע לי - I deserve it. I have it coming to me.

Despite the public being told to not drive their own cars to the north to get to Meron on Lag b'Omer but rather to rely on public transportation, many did anyway. Obviously they could not get into Meron or the surrounding parking lots, as those were all closed off to private cars and being used for buses and transport vehicles. Instead, many went to nearby Tzfat, found parking and walked or took a bus or hitched a ride or whatever to Meron.

The problem is that some/many of these people who parked their cars in Tzfat on their way to Meron parked in no parking zones, thinking that because of the holiday it would be ok and the city would not fine them. The city did publicize that it would not enforce paid parking during the Lag b'Omer celebrations.

Many people returned to their illegally parked cars after the celebrations only to discover a nice hefty parking ticket (250-500nis) waiting on the windshield.

And now they are livid, saying the City of Tzfat is anti-Haredi (as, after all, during the klezmer festival they do not do this) and they are looking into suing the city. The city's responseis that as they publicized they did not enforce paid parking and parking in "blue and white" spots was free. Illegal parking in no parking zones, "red and white" spots, parking on sidewalks and in bus zones, is what people got ticketed for.
source: Actualic

People parking illegally can be annoying and sometimes dangerous. Like any other law, if someone wants to take the risk of getting caught and fined or punished with whatever punishment is deserving, they can do whatever they want and then not complain when they get caught - pony up the price, and maybe it was worth it or maybe not. To do something illegal and then complain when getting caught is a symptom of the Magia Lee generation. Here they are saying I wanted to celebrate, needed to park so I have the right to park wherever I want and you do not have the right to tell me I cannot park there.

We spent this morning in the shopping area having a bagel breakfast, along with running some errands. It was a pretty busy Friday morning, as usual, and I was standing outside a store (I was shopping with my wife - she was inside shopping and I was outside waiting for her to finish) enjoying the beautiful weather with the baby.

I saw an old friend from yeshiva who is in town for a relatives wedding. I saw some other people I know. Basically just enjoying a pleasant shopping trip outside the store watching the people go by. Suddenly I see a police car stopping by a double-parked car.

This car was double-parked in a way that was blocking two parking spots. The 2 spots were empty, so I am not sure why the lady driving the car did not pull into the spots, and if they were full when she double-parked how they got out of the spots.

The police car stopped behind the car and on the loudspeaker called out, "The driver of the Suzuki license plate #123456789 come to your car." Nobody came and he called this out a few times. Eventually a woman shows up and was oblivious to what was going on. As she is getting opening her car door to put her bags in, the policeman calls her over.

First he tells her to pull the car into a spot, which she does. He then calls her over again and they argue a bit. I do not know what was said, they were out of ear-shot from where I was standing. I did not see him give her a ticket, though. They finished the conversation and she moved on to check her car and then went on to continue shopping.

I went a bit closer to see what was going on by her car and I see that someone, probably the owner of one of the cars that had been blocked in, had smeared plastalina, playdough, all over the drivers side of her windshield. She was pretty frustrated as she tried quickly to wipe it off, with no success. It basically just smeared some more. She went off in a huff to continue shopping.

This incident took place outside of a toy store. The driver blocked in probably went in to the toy store, bout a package of playdough and smeared it all over her windshield.

She deserved it. I hate it when people double-park. I hope she learned her lesson.