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Israel: Segregated Bus Lines

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 @ 15:49 UTC

by Amira Al Hussaini

Countries:: Israel
Topics:: Gender

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Writing in Jewlicious, Israeli blogger Laya complains about segregated buses, in which men sit in front and women at the back in Israel.
“(W)omen have reported being threatened, harassed and intimidated for exercising their right to sit where they want. They are public buses, after all,” she writes.

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