Haifa City Hall has issued a closure order for Azad Restaurant in the city for refusing to serve patrons in uniform. There have been a number of cases in which soldiers were escorted out of the restaurant, told people in uniform do not comply with the restaurant’s dress code and atmosphere, and as such, they are not permitted.

City officials stated such a policy violates basic laws and a closure order was issued, only to learn another order to shut down was issued to the same restaurant about a month ago, for an illegal addition to the building.

A restaurant owner stated he does not discriminate, explaining a uniform is “disruptive to the atmosphere” they try to maintain, and it does not matter if a uniform is from the IDF, Israel Police of the boy scouts, adding it does not matter if the person wearing the uniform is a male, female, Jew or Arab.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)