The court of the ultra-orthodox community is launching a new campaign and a series of signatures against phase 2 of the light rail that is expected to pass through the ultra-orthodox neighborhoods | All the details in the first publication
Ahead of the start of the construction of the blue line of the light rail in Jerusalem, the ultra-Orthodox community issued a call asking the residents to send a signed objection to the district committee.
As I recall, for over a year members of the ultra-orthodox community have been protesting, some of them severe and violent, against the plan to build the light rail on the Bar Ilan route in Jerusalem (the Green Line).
These days, a master plan for transportation on behalf of the Jerusalem Municipality and the Ministry of Transportation are working on phase 2 of the light rail in the capital (the blue line), an underground line that will connect the Ramot neighborhood in the north of the city to the Gila neighborhood in the south.
However, the line is supposed to pass through the Shabbat square and the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods, and two passenger stations are to be built there, one on Balilius Street and the other on Tsefania Street, to which the members of the community are strongly opposed on the grounds that it may cause break-ins and harm the sanctity of the place, therefore they want to be satisfied with one station.
The court of the ultra-orthodox community, and this is what we are publishing for the first time in ‘Bahadari Haredim’, issued a call asking the residents and all the communities associated with them to sign with their name and address an objection to the construction of the two stations and send the objection to the authorities, (objections can be submitted up to another month), the call on behalf of the cloth “C, will be published in ads throughout Jerusalem on Sunday, New Year’s Eve.
