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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

Public transportation on Saturday

Transportation Minister Miri Regev holds a press conference ahead of the state ceremony commemorating the October 7 Hamas attack, at the Ministry of Transport and Road Safety in Jerusalem, August 22, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 7, 2024, 12:18 am
‘I’m only human’: Regev faces growing criticism over wartime transit, travel snafus
From allegedly failing to arrange buses for reservists to mistakenly claiming to be at a cabinet meeting but on a trip to Budapest, Israel’s transport minister is in the crosshairs
By Sam Sokol
Anti-government protesters chain themselves to a train car during the opening of the light rail in Tel Aviv, August 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
August 22, 2023, 1:09 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 22: Tel Aviv light rail sparks liberal awakening
Political correspondent Tal Schneider discusses government’s struggle to respond to ongoing terror wave, along with bittersweet launch of Petah Tivka-to-Bat Yam train system
By ToI Staff
Anti-governments activists demonstrate near Transportation Minister Miri Regev's home in Rosh Ha'ayin on August 19, 2023, to protest the Tel Aviv light rail's lack of service during Shabbat. (Twitter screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 19, 2023, 11:17 am
Women speakers to highlight discrimination, at 33rd week of judicial overhaul protests
Ahead of main rallies in the evening, activists demonstrate near transportation minister’s home to decry new Tel Aviv light rail’s lack of service during Shabbat
By ToI Staff
Anti-overhaul activists protest ahead of the opening ceremony of the light rail in Petah Tikva, August 17, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 17, 2023, 7:06 pm
Tel Aviv light rail launches amid multiple challenges, criticism over Shabbat closure
Minister’s dry run highlights technical difficulties, officials fear high demand will cause severe overcrowding, and some decry fact train won’t run on Shabbat
By Deborah Danan
A public bus operated on Shabbat drives through Tel Aviv, November 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
July 12, 2023, 4:04 pm
Ness Ziona joins Tel Aviv-area intercity public transit service on Shabbat
Central city’s mayor says initiative, which includes several other municipalities, ‘aligns with the principles of equality and individual freedom’
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox students in Jerusalem's Neve Yaakov neighborhood on August 9, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 1, 2023, 6:53 am
Battle over municipal funding for Haredi schools foreshadows local election showdown
Prominent ultra-Orthodox MK’s threat to mayors could backfire, as factions mobilize to address what some see as a threat to the secular way of life
By Tal Schneider
Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli at the launch of a new Shabbat bus route in Haifa, October 8, 2022 (Merav Michaeli Twitter account)
October 8, 2022, 6:27 pm
Ignoring objections, minister inaugurates new bus route in Haifa during Shabbat
‘The time has come to fight for our truth,’ Labor party leader Michaeli says as she rides line in northern city
By ToI Staff
Labor party leader Merav Michaeli speaks after a faction meeting in Tel Aviv on September 8, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 2, 2022, 5:30 am
Michaeli promises to run Tel Aviv light rail on Shabbat starting next year
Transportation minister announces norm-busting plan for seven-day public transportation system in Gush Dan area in 2023
By ToI Staff
Merav Michaeli at the new Allenby underground station of the light rail red line in Tel Aviv, June 23, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 24, 2022, 8:24 pm
Minister asks if Tel Aviv light rail can run on Shabbat, sparking Orthodox ire
Merav Michaeli decries system which places citizens without cars under ‘siege’; religious politicians accuse Labor leader of campaigning on back of holy day
By Michael Horovitz
United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni chairs a Knesset Finance Committee meeting on March 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 26, 2020, 1:43 pm
Ultra-Orthodox MK says he’ll demand law banning public transportation on Shabbat
Comment by Moshe Gafni draws ire from Blue and White lawmaker and Tel Aviv mayor, who is currently running bus service on weekends
By ToI Staff
Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz attends a party conference in Tel Aviv on January 14, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 18, 2020, 8:50 pm
Meretz leader calls to expand Tel Aviv’s Shabbat bus service nationwide
Nitzan Horowitz repeats criticism of transportation minister over report he canceled public buses that coincided with Shabbat’s start or end
By ToI Staff
A public bus operated on Shabbat drives through Tel Aviv, November 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
December 12, 2019, 2:38 am
Bat Yam won’t join Tel Aviv area in offering public buses on Shabbat
City council votes down measure to take part in program providing transportation to residents on Jewish day of rest
By ToI Staff
A public bus operated on Shabbat drives through Tel Aviv, November 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
November 30, 2019, 4:53 pm
Tel Aviv Shabbat bus program a hit with riders in its 2nd weekend
Groundbreaking initiative adds full-sized buses to fleet of smaller vehicles to keep up with massive demand
By ToI Staff
Yisrael Beytenu chairman MK Avigdor Liberman participates in a conference at the Israeli Institute for Democracy, in Jerusalem, on November 26, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 29, 2019, 1:43 pm
Listing demands, Liberman vows not to compromise any further on religion-state
Yisrael Beytenu leader cites civil marriage, public transport on Saturdays, and the abolishing of law against Shabbat trading as his ‘minimum’ requirements for joining coalition
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
The new public transportation buses which run on Saturdays, seen driving in Tel Aviv, November 23, 2019. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
November 28, 2019, 7:15 pm
Responding to high demand, Tel Aviv to expand free Shabbat bus program
After more than 10,000 passengers used the public transportation service last weekend, organizers plan to significantly increase its frequency
By ToI Staff
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