Segregation in Israel: Separate streets for men and women?
City officials removed signs after critics said the plan would use public money to enforce segregation on streets near wedding halls.
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Women on the right! It really says so on the warning signs in Bnei Brak: ladies are to use the right-hand sidewalk during busy times. The more secular part of Israel is screaming bloody murder: segregation! But in the ultra-orthodox city itself, passersby shrug their shoulders at the new measure: “It is actually out of respect for women.”
In Bnei Brak, an ultra-Orthodox city near Tel Aviv, the municipality plans to develop two streets to separate men and women. A controversial project, presented as a response to local religious demands
Yaakov Wider, chairman of the Likud faction in the Bnei Brak City Council, attacked the mayor for the decision to separate men and women on one of the city's streets. In a conversation with 103FM, Wider claimed that the municipality is failing and is not providing the municipal service to the citizen.
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