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Chilul Shabbos on Route 6

by Betzalel Kahn

Is the Trans-Israel Highway Company regularly performing infrastructure work on Shabbosos? That depends on who you ask.

Residents at Beit Chilkiya, a chareidi moshav, claim work is done every Shabbos, while the company insists there was only one such incident.

Several weeks ago one of the moshav members sent a letter to Degel HaTorah's Bnei Brak offices warning that work on the section of the road south of the Yad Binyamin intersection involves large-scale Shabbos desecration. In the letter he wrote that from his balcony he has seen the work going on every Shabbos since Simchas Torah.

MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni then contacted the director of the Trans- Israel Highway project, Yehuda Cohen, demanding he investigate the matter immediately and if necessary issue instructions to stop work on Shabbos.

Recently Rabbi Gafni received a reply from the company claiming "work was performed on a single occasion on Shabbat. We have instructed the contractor not to repeat this and that work is permitted only on weekdays."

Now the question remains whether the company is keeping its word or whether it continues to perform groundwork far from the watchful eye of the shomer Shabbos public.

 

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