The Ramat Gan City Council met and discussed the matter of bus service on Shabbos for some four hours – However, a vote was not taken as expected would be the case

Ramat Gan Mayor Shema Cohen arrived at City Hall for the planned council meeting on Tuesday evening. The meeting began promptly at 6:00PM and last for some four hours. While the matter of beginning to run buses on Shabbos in the city was discussed for some time, it never came to a vote. As the meeting was ending, at about 10:00PM, Councilman (Shas) Menachem David, who is a coalition member, began speaking. Due to the late hour, he and councilmen from Bayit Yehudi began to drag out the session, leading to a call for a vote to extend the meeting to permit voting on the Shabbos bus service. A vote to extend the meeting failed and this resulted in the meeting adjourning with the knowledge the vote would be delayed to next week’s meeting.

Councilman David of Shas, who is also an attorney and a deputy mayor, has signaled that if the Shabbos bus service is approved, he will NOT resign from the coalition since Mayor Cohen has a sufficient support base to pass the bus bill with or without him. Hence, he explains resigning would serve no purpose, and while he remains a member of the city coalition, he can work for funding for religious mosdos in the city.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)