(Haaretz)
Cnaan Advertising, the company that places advertisements on Egged buses in Jerusalem, has refused to carry ads for activists campaigning in support of women's equality.
The ads all show fully-dressed women. But Cnaan, which owns the franchise for bus advertising in Jerusalem, nevertheless refused.
The company has refused to place ads featuring women on buses for several years, claiming they are not worth its while because Haredim vandalize the buses.
Cnaan's attorney, Ido Frishta, replied that the company cannot run bus ads with women's images, because they lead to vandalism. Cnaan suggested the movement either make do with advertising on billboards or post a NIS 50,000 guarantee to cover any vandalism damages.
The sex segregation of busses has become one of the hottest topics in Israeli domestic politics, coming to a head last week with the story of Tanya Rosenblit who refused to move to the back of a bus on the order of a religious Jewish man.
Tanya Rosenblit has made her stand, but she wasn't the first. In 2006, Miriam Shear was slapped, kicked and punched by a group of Orthodox Jewish men on a Jerusalem bus for refusing to move to the back.
Sounds like Iran West to me, not like a country that the U.S. ought to be sendin' $4B/year to subsidize. Just sayin'.
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