In Hebrew, the word 'balagan' means mess, chaos, disorder. There's controversy about the word's origin (Russia? Turkey?...), but I'm not going to go into this.
It suffices to say that at my age I hate balagan. I can try and control 'balagan' at my home (not always successfully), but not the one outside it .
Since the last general elections we've got constant balagan: protests, strikes, violence (both verbal and physical). It's all too little and too late, as they say, and as I firmly believe - but, who wants to know...
People constantly ignore things, they live each inside their own bubble, and then act as surprised. No surprise here at all. As expected, 'demographics' won the elections. So, all that remains to do is try to make 'a lemonade out of the lemon', IF possible.
One must add to the above political kind of balagan, the fear caused by the recent earthquakes in the neighboring countries Turkey and Syria. We are not prepared for such a disaster , so blames regarding apparently faulty structural condition of buildings, are already flying over our heads, in all directions.
Actually, the big balagan started several years ago with the Light Rail works in major cities - Jerusalem and Tel Aviv first. The Light Rail has lots of benefits, but I pity those who live close to the stations and rails during long periods of work to be done. What a mess!
They'll tell you it's all worthy as it raises house value on the market. Maybe, maybe not. In the meantime, one lives near a considerable balagan, and that's hardly quality living. If you've got kids, it could also be dangerous to live close to road /rail works.
Anyway, there seems to be no 'responsible adult' around, so things look rather bad.