JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Finance Committee chairman Moshe Gafni has said privately that if Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara continues to procrastinate and cast aspersions on the pilot project for separate bathing at springs in national reserves, he will promote such separation by law.
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“We’re trying to do things by agreement, bathing after opening hours and not harming the public and this is only a pilot project for a month. If the Attorney-General will disqualify this, she will force us to promote legislation,” Gafni said.
Gafni himself had placed a bill proposal on the matter in the previous Knesset session, which would legislate separate bathing hours for at least 15% of the opening times at national parks. The law was not promoted due to the pilot project being initiated by Environment Minister Idit Silman.
Silman herself criticized Baharav-Miara Wednesday for delaying the pilot project despite its necessity during the Bein Hazmanim period when yeshiva students are on vacation.
Silman said that Baharav-Miara was intentionally harming religious people and Arabs, who are waiting for this pilot project in order to utilize the separate hours.
The pilot project is designated for just two springs and will take place before and after opening hours at the parks. However secular elements believe that this is only the forerunner for legislation creating segregation during regular hours.
Uri Kedar, the head of “Free Israel” said that “MK Gafni can legislate this morning but will find the Israeli public more determined than ever and unwilling to allow poisonous gender segregation to chip away at the public arena which belongs to all of us.
“We are certain that the Attorney General will continue to act as she has before and not bend her head or bend the law due to mafia-style threats. Both this summer and in all the summers to come, Israeli families won’t ask anyone whether they can take a trip together, and certainly not Moshe Gafni.”
Secular people are not “elements”.
“However secular elements believe that this is only the forerunner for legislation creating segregation during regular hours.”
Is anyone reading this correctly? Hey Paul charedim are asking for AFTER hours accommodation. But because the secular society has a some paranioa and fear our rights should be trampled on? Thats democarcy? There isn’t even a logical argument. just fear.
More swimming pools are needed. The upper crust seculars may have pools in their condo buildings, or private pools in their homes. Few chareidi families, save a few very wealthy foreign born families who make aliyah, have a pool. Beit Shemesh has one public pool, with some separate hours, but it’s apparently way too crowded. With the heat, pools are becoming more a necessity.