Public pool in Jerusalem hangs sign saying lifeguard on duty isn’t Jewish

11 August 2020, 5:02 pm

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A public swimming pool run by the Jerusalem Municipality hung a sign last week saying the lifeguard on duty that day wasn’t Jewish, the Haaretz daily reports.

The sign at the Zipori pool replaced an earlier one that said “today there is a lifeguard (goy) not a [female] lifeguard,” according to the newspaper.

The pool responds that there are a lot of religious and ultra-Orthodox Jewish women who swim there for whom the religion of the lifeguard is important.

Sami Amsalem, manager of the pool, says he was unaware of the sign and ordered its removal when he learned about it.