Quote of the Day

The State is losing its Jewish character, it is a tragedy on a national level and it has happened under your watch and under your responsibility

  -- MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ), to Minister of Transportation Betzalel Smotritch, after the City of Tel Aviv just announced the other day that it is jumping on the bandwagon and will soon begin operating a free bus service on Shabbos.

To be fair, Smotritch only just became Minister of Transportation several few weeks ago. Yes, Tel Aviv and a few others joined the fray now, but the movement began over the past couple of years with over a dozen municipalities already operating such bus lines or in the process of beginning them. This did not happen under Smotritch's watch, though he is in the position now responsible for dealing with it. Smotritch's response is that these cities are taking advantage of a loophole in the law and there is nothing directly that he can do about that.

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