Shabbat Buses Coming To Jerusalem? Hitorerut Launches Free Shared Bus Service
Channel: Daniel Rosehill
Date: 2023-08-11

The lack of public transport throughout Israel on the Jewish Shabbat and holy days has long been a major source of contention between Israel's religious and secular populations. Given that the Shabbat occurs once a week, the status quo means that Israelis who don't own cars have virtually no means of getting around the country for half of every weekend.

The tensions are particularly acute in Israel's capital city of Jerusalem where a majority of residents are orthodox or traditionally observant. 

Hitorerut - a local political faction that focuses on social progress in the city - has announced that it will begin operating free shared transport throughout the city on Shabbat. The move has drawn the ire of religious residents as well as political opponents who decry it as a political gimmick.

#jerusalem #localpolitics #transit 

--

By: Daniel Rosehill 

== Contact Information ===

For latest contact information: 

https://www.youtube.com/c/DanielRosehillVideo/about

Social media and more:

https://www.danielrosehill.com

== Licensing / syndication / reproduction ==

Unless otherwise indicated, all videos I distribute through YouTube are licensed under the following Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). 

For the full license, see: https://bit.ly/ncnd4bycc.