Arkadi Gaydamak building tent city in Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park

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Some 1,000 Sderot residents will be evacuated to a "tent city" Arcadi Gaydamak is setting up in Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park.

This goes against advice from the Prime Minister's Office to the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv municipalities that they not allow Gaydamak to set up tent cities in their jurisdictions.

On Tuesday, Jerusalem refused to allow Gaydamak to evacuate Sderot residents to Sacher Park in the capital, saying the park was not suited to absorb the evacuees and that it was adjacent to a major road.

Instead, Gaydamak contracted a private company to set up a giant tent compound in a 23-dunam forest in Hayarkon Park. The company received permission from Ganei Yehoshua, the municipal company responsible for the park, to host up to 1,400 people for an indefinite period of time.

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