At least eight Palestinian schoolchildren on a field trip were killed when a truck collided with their bus on a rain-soaked road in the West Bank.
Anat Hoffman, the progressive Israeli activist who made headlines two summers ago when she was arrested for carrying a Torah at the Western Wall, comes to California next week with a clear message for American Jews: What’s happening in Beit Shemesh is as big a threat to Israel as what’s happening in Tehran.
If Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy teaches us one thing, it’s that the fight for civil rights is not particular to a time, a place, a people or a gender. It’s still shocking to watch vintage 1960s TV footage and see moms and dads yelling at someone else’s children for simply walking up the steps of a high school.
A compelling threat to the survival of a democratic Jewish state does not come from the Arabs or the Iranians but from within. Its repercussions threaten to reach far beyond the gender segregated sidewalks and buses of some Israeli cities to the heart of the Diaspora.
Dozens of female demonstrators in Israel sat near the driver at the front of gender-segregated buses to protest the separation of men and women.
A haredi Orthodox man who insulted a female soldier after she refused to sit in the back of a city bus was charged with sexual harassment.
Israel will take action against haredi Orthodox extremists who harass women in the public sphere, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned.
Israel detained an Orthodox man on Wednesday on suspicion of calling a woman soldier a \”whore\” on a public bus for refusing his appeals that she move to the back of the vehicle, a police spokesman said.
Israel\’s largest bus company, Egged, was fined for forcing a woman to sit in the back of a bus, a small claims court ruled.
A bus advertisement campaign by an extreme right-wing group calling for the building of the Third Temple has been removed.\n\nThe Our Land of Israel party had put posters on 200 Jerusalem city buses shortly before Passover showing an artist\’s rendition of the Third Temple on the site now occupied by the Al Aksa Mosque and the slogan \”May the Temple be built in our lifetime.\”
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