It defends the rights of the secular, but not those of the chareidim. Our community, boruch Hashem grows from year to year, from election to election. Nonetheless, the Supreme Court pays absolutely no attention to this fact, and the situation continues to degenerate. Turbine Transport Not on Shabbos Chareidi activists, and especially MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni, were instrumental in postponing the transport of a 250 ton turbine manufactured by Israel Army Industries in Ramat Hasharon to its place of use in an electric generating plant in Ashkelon. The huge turbine has to be moved at a maximum speed of five kilometers per hour, and it blocks three lanes of traffic.
Planners expect the project to take nine hours.
The move involves considerable numbers of police for traffic control. Rabbi Gafni asked Rabbi Suissa, who is Infrastructure Minister, to postpone the well-publicized moved from Shabbos to another day. Police originally recommended the time because traffic is very sparse then. Rabbi Gafni asked the police to reconsider, which they did. Chareidi observers noted that it only requires a modest amount of good will to plan the move for another time of minimal traffic, such as the late night and early morning hours.