The extremist actions by Haredi groups and lack of intervention from Mayor Moshe Abutbul (Shas) is shaping up to be a focal point for the upcoming municipal election.
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| Men stare as an Israeli women sits at the front of a bus, in defiance of demands by ultra-Orthodox Jewish hardliners that women sit at the back. |
Source/Credit: Haaretz
By Nir Hasson | Jul. 31, 2013
Demonstrators in Beit Shemesh block path of bus and smashed its windshield with a hammer, before moving on to two other buses nearby; police detain two.
Two buses were stoned by a group of Haredim in Beit Shemesh on Wednesday after the police arrested a man and woman who had asked a female passenger to move to the back of the bus.
The incident began on a No. 497 bus from Beit Shemesh to Bnei Brak, which is run as a mehadrin line on which men and women sit separately. Under a ruling by the High Court of Justice in 2011, such seating is strictly voluntary.
According to passengers on the bus, one of the female passengers asked a woman who was sitting at the front of the bus to move to the rear. While the seated woman did not object, the driver - who heard the conversation - summoned police, who detained the woman who had made the request and her husband, and the bus continued on its way.
When news of the incident spread, groups of ultra-Orthodox youth stoned two local buses. Moshe Schuman was a passenger on one of them, the No. 417 from Ramat Beit Shemesh to Jerusalem.
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