In accordance with a decision by the city’s rabbis, Bnei Brak plans to segregate the bustling Shlomo Hamelech and Ezra streets with barriers and signage to prevent men and women from crossing each other’s paths, Channel 13 reported.
The plan has been in development for several years and is likely to be expanded to other busy streets in the city, municipal officials told the channel.
An official message by the city instructed residents of all ages to abide by the new guidelines, the report said.
The municipality told Channel 13 that rabbis’ instructions are “very clear and speak for themselves. The city’s public, which is committed to obeying the great Torah leaders and heeding their words, will comply with their request.”
Yael Yechieli, the director of the 5050 initiative, which works for gender equality in Israel, decried the move, saying that “religious leaders want to exclude women from everywhere, and if we don’t stop them, it will continue.”
“The monster of segregation is insatiable,” she said, noting that it was only men who made the decision at the Bnei Brak Municipality. “The disaster of segregation must end and the public needs to fight for it.”
In 2017, the Supreme Court ordered the Beit Shemesh municipality to remove “modesty” signs instructing men and women to walk on opposite sides of streets in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood.
In contrast to Beit Shemesh’s mix of ultra-Orthodox, modern Orthodox, and secular residents over restrictions on women’s dress and gender-segregation, Bnei Brak’s roughly 231,000 residents are mainly ultra-Orthodox.
4 comments:
Watch DIN get all bent out of shape over something nisht nogeyeh him abee to bash Charedim alongside “gender equality” fanatics!!! ROFL!!!
Passing gas 9:11
I don't have to bash them, this is very easy, they are bashing themselves!
This has nothing to do with "segregation": This is what thousands of people inside BB want for themselves and have been asking for decades. This rule will not expand anywhere else, and no one is forced to live in BB.
So who are we to judge or criticize ??
The entire Frum system is collapsing as the men cannot control themselves when they see a lady. They blame all "tzurois" on the woman, for example, wigs, first they said that the wigs from India are from avoideh zara, when they found out that it wasn't true, they then said well, they have "lace tops', then they started with the length of the wigs, the bottom line is that they refuse to take blame for themselves so they blame it on the women.
This system of segregated sidewalks is also in New Square, where there is a very high percentage of incest in the community.
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