Tel Aviv residents feel City Hall is violating Shabbos by having sanitation workers picking trash on the holy day. Residents explain they hear and see the trucks during the early Shabbos morning hours, even before they head out for shul. They are asking why the trash pickup is taking place on Shabbos when there are six other days to accomplish this task.
Residents in the area of Rothschild Boulevard want to know why trash collection is taking place on Shabbos. Residents explain city sanitation workers operate as if it is just another day, while other major cities, including Rishon L’Tzion and Jerusalem manage to address the sanitation issue on the other six days of the week.
According to a report from Kippa, one joining the city’s sanitation department must declare his willingness to work on Shabbos when accepting the job. They actually must sign a declaration indicating they are aware that they must work changing shifts, which include Shabbos.
Officials in Tel Aviv City Hall confirm the facts in the case, adding the Shabbos workforce is a minimum one, not the regular number of employees and the goal is to remove trash from certain public areas, like entertainment establishments only.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Why? Because the Tel Aviv government hates religion and will do anything to undermine it.
What a Chilul Hashem! In the U.S. the contract would be void under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Unbelievable that a frum Jew has more rights to practice his religion in the U.S.A. then in the “Jewish” state.
Every one knows that in order to live there and work for the Israeli government they will have to violate the Shabbos. This is a Jewish state. if you want to be a shomer shabos you can try to live in a gentile country.
#3, what planet are you on? Most of the other cities in EY don’t have this issue. Tel Aviv is known to have the secular issues.
Unbelievable that a frum Jew has more rights to practice his religion in the U.S.A. then in the “Jewish” state.
Lamentably:- Nothing new; When I used to work in a Jewish Shomer Shabbos firm, I always had to work on Chol-haMoed, Purim & Tisho b’Ov.
Now that I work in a Goyish firm, I have no problems taking off Chol-haMoed, Purim & Tisho b’Ov, and often I also take off, Erev Yom Tov too. & they are always flabbergasted, that I don’t put in, to take off for Chanukah.