Transportation Minister and Labor party chairwoman Merav Michaeli is traveling to Haifa on Shabbos to inaugurate the first trip of the Metronit bus line 5a, which begins operations on Friday.
A statement from Michaeli’s office said that she will arrive on Shabbos at 11:00 a.m. at Rambam Hospital, and from there she will travel by bus that will leave at 11:15 a.m.
The Metronit is a rapid bus transit system in Haifa, with one line, the Red Line, that operates on Shabbos.
Michaeli is taking advantage of her position as transportation minister during the election campaign and has made the topic of public transportation on Shabbos a central tenet of her campaign, along with other anti-religious issues.
She announced this past Motzei Shabbos that the Tel Aviv light rail will run on Shabbos, asserting that “this is my decision – and that’s how it’s going to be.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Normally, I’d say-“who cares”, but it’s painful obvious that this is being done SPECIFICALLY on Shabbos to insult the orthodox population!
the chilonim are basically goyim anyway.
another reason why UTJ & Shas should never join a government headed by the Left
Shameful.
The fact is the vast majority of the population in Israel want public transportation on Shabbos. It’s a democracy so you can see how this can happen, but there’s no question the whole situation is tragic. Smart people have to figure out how to make Shabbos important to Jews in Israel. Throwing things at them and blocking traffic doesn’t get the message across.
golfer, The fact is the vast majority of the population in Israel want public transportation on Shabbos? did you take a poll?
And just for the record, blocking traffic and throwing things DOES HELP!!! which is why its still being done
And since you don’t live in Israel, don’t make stuff up
Clearly Merav Michaeli is hoping to have this bus stoned to fulfill the מצוה of סקילה בעבור חילול שבת
As to why she would wish to be stoned, even a psychiatrist may have a hard time deciphering just what is going on on in her exceedingly sick head
I think that in general public transport on Shabbos is a good thing, provided it is run by Druze and Arab employees. Most people who take a bus on Shabbos would otherwise drive, or else do other things that are chilul shabbos; by sitting on the bus to go where they want to go, they are keeping Shabbos, or at least violating it less.
The Zionist State is a Zionist, not Jewish “State”. It does not represent Jews; it represents only Zionists/its citizens.
So, the Zionist State needs to continually prop up its Big Lie that it is “Jewish”. Therefore, it “keeps Shabbos”, and does other things that appear to be Jewish, to the extent needed, to perpetuate that lie.
Millhouse, riding on a bus is not violating the halachas of Shabbos?!! I didn’t know you are Reform!
as long as you don’t have to pay when you get on and you don’t push the stop button or the pressure censors to open to doors, there is no Melacha you are breaking when riding a bus on shabbos.
of course it’s not ideal, and you can argue that it might be מראית עין and that it’s not shabbosdik to do so; but it is infinitely better than getting into your car to drive to places as you are not actually breaking shabbos by riding public transit
That’s right, philosopher, riding on a bus is not violating the halachas of Shabbos. That is a simple fact. A person sitting on a bus is keeping Shabbos (unless of course he is doing some other melacha at the same time, which not everyone does). The same person driving is violating Shabbos. Therefore providing a bus will prevent at least some chilul shabbos.
Transportation minister needs to be stripped of all their credentials for this balagan on Shabbos….May Hashem not allow this Goyish Flavor in our amazing Kosher world…….