Discrimination * Israel - Naomi Ragen fights segregated bus lines
Jerusalem,Israel -The Jerusalem Post, by DAN IZENBERG -Jan. 25, 2007: -- The Egged bus company operates 30 mehadrin (haredi) bus lines throughout the country where women are forced to enter the bus from the rear doors and sit in the back rows and are barred from boarding unless they wear "modest" clothing, according to a group of women who petitioned the High Court on Wednesday against the Egged and Dan bus companies and the Transportation Ministry... The petitioners included author Naomi Ragen and the Israel Religious Action Committee of the Progressive (Reform) Movement... The petitioners demanded that the Transportation Ministry stop running the mehadrin lines until they operate in accordance with the law and that it conduct a study to assess the demand for mehadrin routes, rather than acceding automatically to the requests of haredi rabbis and communities for more segregated bus lines... (Photo by Ariel Jerozolimski: SEPARATE SEATING for men and women on Egged bus lines is becoming more prevalent as haredi families increasingly move to outlying areas)
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