Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman spoke out against legal advisor Gali Baharav Miara's decision to block the pilot for separate bathing in the springs, which was reported in Israel Hayom: "I regret that instead of working to heal the rifts in Israeli society, they choose legal counsel on a path that is all about increasing tension and rift among the people through a legislative solution only," she said.
The attorney general told Silman during a meeting on the subject that the pilot cannot be conducted because the Nature and Parks Authority does not have the authority to allow separate bathing, and if you want to approve it, a law must be passed authorizing the Nature and Parks Authority to maintain gender segregation. She added that the very possibility of separate bathing is a violation of equality.
"Instead of finding a legal solution that allows for a separate, proportionate, limited and extremely limited bathing pilot, both at times and hours, in a way that does not harm the general public and not at the expense of regular operating hours, they choose a legislative path while ignoring not only the public's current needs, but also the fact that against that legislation they will immediately claim that it constitutes religious coercion and will even be attacked in petitions to the High Court of Justice. All while needlessly amplifying the rifts and rifts in the nation.
"Unfortunately, the striving for equality and pluralism ends when it comes to the needs of the ultra-Orthodox, Arab and religious public, as far as the Attorney General is concerned, in 2023 there is no real room for measured and inclusive cross-sectoral social agreements that implement the will of the public in all its diversity and enable the simple foundation of "It is enjoyed and it is not lacking."
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