The Israeli Rosa Parks
by Esther Newman-Cohen
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Title
The Israeli Rosa Parks
Artist
Esther Newman-Cohen
Medium
Painting - Mixed Media On Paper
Description
In the late 1990s so-called mehadrin bus lines were created for the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community in Israel connecting their neighborhoods. Many women who got on these segregated buses were forced to move to the back. Such was the case in July 2004 when American-Israeli novelist Naomi Ragen unintentionally boarded a mehadrin bus and was physically threatened for refusing to give up her seat and move to the back of the bus.
In its ruling on January 6, 2011, the High Court of Israel ruled that gender segregation was illegal. However, enforcement has been problematic as seen from the following outstanding cases:
On December 17, 2011, Tanya Rosenblit, a secular Israeli woman, – nicknamed by the media as the “Israeli Rosa Parks” – refused to let an ultra-Orthodox man dictate where she could sit on a public bus traveling from Ashdod to Jerusalem. On February 17, 2013. Noa Kanteman, a 22-year-old physiotherapy student in Safed, was similarly harassed when she took an Egged public bus from Sefat to Ashdod. On August 6, 2015, Anna Schulkin, a female employee of Israel’s Foreign Ministry was forced to get off a Jerusalem public bus after Haredi men demanded that she move to the back of the bus. Even though Egged’s guidelines would have required the driver to intervene, many Egged drivers do nothing to help the woman being harassed and some have actually tried to force women to move to the back of the bus.
salem. The incident made headlines both in Israeli and international media, and Rosenblit was hailed as "Israeli Rosa Parks".
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