Haifa Religious Community Unites To Protest Michaeli Opening Bus Transit Service On Shabbos

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli has not hidden her intention to allow public transport on Shabbos in as many places as possible, but this coming Shabbos she has initiated a new provocation. Michaeli intends to arrive in person on Shabbos and conduct a press conference in which she opens the new section of the Metronit, a bus rapid transit system in Haifa, which is one of the few cities where public transport runs in Israel on Shabbos.

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In response, the religious community in Haifa has decided to gather together opposite the new Metronit station and conduct a public Musaf service at the time when Michaeli intends to open the new bus service- at 11 AM on Shabbos Haazinu.

A loudspeaker called on all members of the religious and traditional public in Haifa to arrive at the new station and pray their Musaf prayers there to protest the public Shabbos desecration by a government minister in her ministerial position.

Organizers of the demonstration hope that thousands of people will attend and hoped that they would be able to prevent the new buses from travelling to their destination on Shabbos.

 

 


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Enough
Enough
1 year ago

Good

Alta Bubby
Alta Bubby
1 year ago

Great

Steve Katz
Steve Katz
1 year ago

If you believe, as I do, especially as a new oleh, that Israel should have a truly Jewish nature to it, then ministers like this should be shown the door. We need leaders with yirat shamayim (fear/awe of heaven) who will not be afraid to tell the world that Israel will be guided by Jewish principles and will not give leeway to terrorists or their backers.

The Professor
The Professor
1 year ago

Israel is a democracy and not a theocracy. The only way public transportation will not run in Israel is for many frum Jews from the Golah to move to Israel and vote according to their conscience. Otherwise, this trend will surely continue – and we have no business wringing our hands and complaining from the comfort of heated sukkahs in Brooklyn, the Five Towns and Monsey.