Harav Yitzchok Yosef Permits Elevators on Shabbos "Le'chatcilah"

DIN: We are talking, of course, about specially modified elevators. In Israel, Shabbos Elevators have been modified with the latest scientific mechanism so that they are in line with halacha! 

But, .......and this is a big "butt", there are Charedie Poiskim who prohibit it nevertheless! 

A few years ago I bought a dira in an apartment building with a Shabbos Elevator! I live on the 3rd floor and B"H I can climb the stairs. The Vaad Habyis at the time shut off the elevator on Shabbos since no one, I guessed, needed to use it! 

Then my wife invited a relative for the Shabbos Night meal, and this relative couldn't climb stairs for health reasons, so I asked the Vaad Guy if he could activate the elevator for Shabbos so I could accommodate this relative!

He answered politely that he asked "Daas Teirah" and that the Rav paskened that the elevator is prohibited on Shabbos, regardless of the latest scientific modifications! 

So, again, I asked politely if he can tell me which floor that Rav lives in his building! He asked of what difference that makes, since the Rav paskened like that! I told him, "I'm just curious!" 

He answered, turning red like a boiled beet, that the Rav lives on the Ground Floor!

 I told him sternly and firmly that unless he gets a Rav that lives on the 3rd floor or higher, he better have that elevator activated! 

To make a long story short, he did in fact activate the elevator for that Shabbas!

Fast forward three years I notice that the elevator has been activated as a Shabbas Elevator every single Shabbos! So, again, I asked politely, completely innocent, "What happened? Did that Rav change his psak?" He didn't answer me, but it turns out that his father-in-law lives on the 2nd floor and he has "loi aleinu" Parkinson's disease and can't climb stairs! 

So I see that Chareidim listen to "Daas Teirah" as long as it doesn't affect them personally, once it hits home.... The Rav and his psak go out the window!

מי כעמך ישראל