High Court of Justice took up the issue after Meretz and Labor members petitioned against the intention of then-Transportation Minister Rabbi Yitzhak Levy of the National Religious Party. "Bar-Ilan Street has ceased to be just a street.
It has become a deep political divide between ultra-Orthodox and secular Jews," says Zvi Tzameret. "How wise, modest and humble were Barak's decision at the time, and how far over the years Barak and the High Court of. Justice have distanced themselves from that wisdom, and to what degrees their arrogance has soared"