With Egged compelled by a Supreme Court decision to renew bus ads that depict men and women, the Women of the Wall organization was among the first to come onboard.
For the zealots, the ads will unquestionably be viewed as a provocative act, one that may result in renewed acts of vandalism against buses and bus stops in the capital. The photo not only shows women, but one of them is holding a Sefer Torah, and this will elicit the anger of many Yerushalayim residents. The campaign is under the banner “Ima, I also want to” and “Zos Hatorah – Now it’s my turn”.
Ladaat reported on Tuesday 20 Tishrei that a member of the zealots vows they will combat the renewal of the unacceptable ads as they did in the past.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem/Photo: WoW Facebook page)
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Not only “For the zealots”, but for all religious Jews “the ads will unquestionably be viewed as a provocative act”. The question is only what to do about it.
Best Response… Boycott Egged. Jerusalem is more than 60% Dati and most likely the vast majority of Egged customers. Money talks.
I remember years ago Crystal cola decided to use non-tziyus advertisements despite that their Hechsher was going to be pulled as a result. Two weeks later their ads were gone and the Hechsher back on. What happened? They discovered that 70% of their customers were kosher conscious and when they saw that their revenues drops so much in those two weeks they repented. Money talks!
The probability that these ads will continually be defaced at Egged’s expense as they keep replacing them is approximately 100%.
MK Shaked under fire for public transportation stance
New Facebook page called “Ayelet Metayelet” [Ayelet hikes] created after Habayit Hayehudi MK Ayelet Shaked posts picture of her hiking in north during the holidays, despite being a supposedly vocal opponent of public transportation during holidays and Shabbat.
Ilan Gattegno and Mati Tuchfeld
Vocal opponent of public transportation during holidays and weekends, Habayit Hayehudi MK Ayelet Shaked received scathing criticism on Facebook over the weekend for posting a picture of her hiking during Sukkot.
Shaked posted a picture of her on a hike in the southern Golan Heights on Thursday, the first day of the Sukkot holiday, and recommended that people visit the area.
As a response to her post, a new Facebook page called “Ayelet Metayelet” [Ayelet hikes] was created. “Apparently the picture was taken during the holiday. A few weeks ago, Shaked said during an interview that she opposes public transportation on Shabbat. Shaked, secular and owning a car, can travel and hike during Shabbat and holidays. Many of us cannot,” the page description read.
A Facebook user wrote, “You can drive there during the holiday because you have your own car, which I pay for as a taxpayer. I do not own a car, and thus cannot go there, because you and your friends in the Knesset forbid public transportation on Shabbat and holidays.”
Some remarks were more sarcastic: “What bus gets there? Ah, right … religious coercion and all that, I forgot.”
The backlash to Shaked’s comments continued on Saturday and expanded beyond social media. Protesters marched from Milano Square to Tel Aviv’s Bavli neighborhood, where Shaked resides.
Protesters said it was a “quiet protest march. A Shabbat hike, one that those without our own vehicles we could do.” One member of the rally said police had deployed in large numbers ahead of the protest, and that there were more police officers than protesters.
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Hate to have to break it to you,
but the catalyst for this preordained “decision”,was mostly a group of ‘datim’ led by notorious Rachel Azaria
(With datim like that [who invariably more securalist than the secular],who needs secular?)