YNET A Foreign Ministry
worker in her 50s was forced to get off a bus in Jerusalem on Sunday
after ultra-Orthodox men demanded that she move to the back side of the
vehicle.
Anna Schulkin, a
resident of the Gilo neighborhood, got on Egged bus No. 36 in
Jerusalem's Ramot neighborhood on Sunday afternoon. As there were no
other vacant seats, she sat in the front part of the bus opposite a
teenage haredi boy.
"To my surprise, the
boy got up, turned his back on me, tapped his fingers as if he were
addressing a dog and said to me: 'Go backwards, that's where you
belong,'" she later told Ynet. [...]
As the atmosphere heated
up, Schulkin decided to get off the bus and share her experience in an
angry Facebook post. "I got off fast, not before I took as many pictures
as possible," she wrote. "Our home is on fire. We are burning each
other."[...]
The driver's passivity
and the passengers' fiery behavior, she says, made her realize that
there was no one there to defend her rights. "I decided that I didn’t
want to flex the muscles I don’t have, and got off the bus."
[...]
Schulkin says she got on
another bus in which she sat next to three haredi men, and none of them
said anything or insulted her. "I told them what had happened to me and
said, 'I can't believe you're letting me sit here. God bless you.' It's
important to know that not all people are the same."
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