Israel
In Israel, the bus company Egged provides a service where part of the bus is reserved for women only. This bus service was started at the request of Haredi women, because of religious sensitivities as to not be the center of attention. Men also desire the service, as it helps men, who are forbidden by Jewish law to gaze at a woman's body to admire their beauty (even covered) that is not one's own wife, from stumbling. The Haredi public was forbidden from opening a private bus line for fear that it would take away customers from the Egged monopoly.
The right of religious women to sit separately has come under attack by the secular media.
Read more about this topic: Women-only Passenger Car
Famous quotes containing the word israel:
“For in the division of the nations of the whole earth he set a ruler over every people; but Israel is the Lord’s portion: whom, being his firstborn, he nourisheth with discipline, and giving him the light of his love doth not forsake him. Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, and his eyes are continually upon their ways.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 17:17-9.
“appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 8:5.
Leaders of ancient Israel asking the last of the judges, Samuel, to appoint a king.
“Never since has there arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 34:10.