Exclusion of Haredim from the Three-Way Pool • "Prosecute the pool managers""

Sherry Roth
June 19, 2014   
Haredi parties petitioned the Attorney General following the cancellation of separate hours at the three-person pool • The attorney transferred the case to the Deputy State Attorney • Attorney Haim Kanner: "The values ​​of equality must not stand as an empty vessel""
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The legal controversy with the administrators of the three-person pool escalates: the Attorney General referred the ultra-Orthodox petitioners to Deputy State Attorney Eli Abarbanel.

as Reported by the Haredim10, Following the cancellation of separate hours for men and women at the pool, an act that constitutes a de facto exclusion of Haredi bathers from the pool, attorney Haim Kanner appealed to the Attorney General demanding that he order the opening of a police investigation for racist and discriminatory offenses against the Haredi public who were excluded from the pool.

Now, as mentioned, Counsel Weinstein writes that he has reviewed the request and that it is being forwarded to Deputy Attorney General Eli Abarbanel.

Kenner quickly contacted Abarbanel and asked him to order the pool managers to be prosecuted.

In his appeal, Kenner notes that according to the Supreme Court ruling, closing the club to an observant public is considered discrimination, even if it is for economic reasons.

""A society that respects its fundamental values ​​and the fundamental rights of its members must be willing to pay a reasonable price so that the value of equality does not remain an empty instrument.".

 מנהל הבריכה אורן חפץ הגיב בשעתו בשיחה עם חרדים10: "הגעתי לנהל את המקום לפני כחצי שנה לאחר שהמקום נקלע לקשיים כלכליים, ההחלטה לסיים את הרחצה הנפרדת התקבלה משיקולים פיננסיים נטו. אין לי שום דבר נגד דתיים או חרדים. "אני מנהל קאנטרי קלאב ולא בריכה ציבורית. יש לנו כ-2,200 מנויים שפעילותם במקום היא אינטנסיבית, ובלתי אפשרי לנהל מועדון חברים עם הגבלות בשעות מסויימות, גם כשאנשים מבקשים לשכור את המקום לצורך אירועים פרטיים אני מסרב. ואני מאוד רוצה ומקווה שאוכל בחודשי החורף לחדש שוב את הרחצה הנפרדת".  

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