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While baseball season ends, fence around Hayarkon Park remains

By Yigal Hai, Haaretz Correspondent

The Israel Baseball League ended August 19, but most of the fence set up around Sportek field in the heart of Hayarkon Park has not been taken down, contrary to the city's promise.

The IBL games of the last two months were run by a private American company and the Israel Association of Baseball, which rented, built and fenced a 15-dunam area in the park, after much wrangling with city officials.

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e field was not ready for play for the first quarter of the season.

The city promised to take down the fence as soon as the games ended, but so far has only removed the fence on the compound's eastern side.

"The fence is an obstacle in the middle of the park," environmental activist Yisrael Schwartz said Monday. "The compound looks like Ketziot prison."

The Tel Aviv branch of the Society for the Protection of Nature commented on the situation that "18 percent of the park is already covered by buildings. Leaving fences on such a large area of the park reduces the public's options of enjoying an open, quiet park space."

Municipality spokesman Hilel Partok said the city would remove the obstruction.

"The city made no commitment to the baseball league for the future," said Partok. "If any of the new fence remains, it will be removed immediately. However, some of the fences are old ones, from the baseball field that used to be there."

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1.	OH NO THE FENCE IS STILL UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!	07:22	\|	baseball fan	28/08/07

2.	fence still up, israelis still don`t take notice	09:08	\|	sam	28/08/07

3.	Fence is "enjoyed" by many	09:18	\|	Beth	28/08/07

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10:14 While baseball season ends, fence around Hayarkon Park remains