Sex-Segregated Buses * Israel - Split along religious divide
Jerusalem,Israel -Judy's World -March 15, 2010: -- It was the sort of scene you’d expect to encounter on the streets of 1950s Alabama, not on a public square in modern Israel. But on the evening of Saturday, March 13, around a thousand protesters marched outside the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem to protest segregated buses that are mainly (but not exclusively) used by the city’s Haredi or “Ultra-Orthodox” community. Shouting “Jerusalem isn’t Teheran,” the protesters demanded an end to gender-based seating policies and called for the transport minister’s resignation... “If the segregated buses continue to operate, we will board them and not follow the segregation rules”... (Source: Gil Yohanan/Ynetnews - Jerusalem residents protest segregated buses on Saturday night)* A "Kosher" bus
New Voices -17 March 2010: ... These buses (which are already in operation) separate men and women: men sit in the front and women in the back. The reason for the separation is justified through religious purity...
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