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Politics and religion disrupt Israeli train services
September 5, 2016 By Faith Matters

Politics and religion disrupt Israeli train services

Politics and religion combined on Sunday to halt much of Israel’s train service at the start of its working week. Bowing to demands by ultra-Orthodox partners in the governing coalition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered rail maintenance suspended on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath – when work is ritually forbidden – and found himself widely blamed […]

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