A painful bus ride

Religious woman shares her experience, fears after facing humiliation on a segregated bus

I boarded the bus and sat at the front, as I usually do. An ultra-Orthodox man that followed behind me told me to move to the back of the bus. Why? I asked. Because this is what the rabbis and their congregation decided, men sit at the front, while women sit at the back

An ultra-Orthodox group of people, possibly with the support of their rabbis, decide to turn to the Egged bus company in order to regularize segregated sitting arrangements between men and woman

Egged, which is a public company, is not allowed to order such discrimination

Yet the Orthodox proposed that they would merely ask women to sit at the back – not demand and certainly not force them to do so

The Orthodox are trying to present the situation as if they have an agreement with Egged that orders the segregation

This is misleading and fictitious

There is no agreement and there can be no such agreement