Drama tonight (Thursday) at the Bnei Brak City Council meeting after a group of elderly women, including some of the city's founders and Holocaust survivors, came to protest the sudden closure of the long-standing welfare club, which provides them with social activities and a hot meal.
City Council member and Likud faction chairman Yaakov Wider sharply criticized the municipality's decision to close the club, saying: "Not only are you abolishing 'Honor your father and mother,' for some of them it's also 'Thou shalt not murder.'".
After Mayor Avraham Rubinstein refused to allow the women to present to the council members the injustice they claimed had been done to them, arguing that the law only allocates speaking time to council members, Wieder announced that he was granting his speaking time to the women.
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The city inspectors failed and were unable to remove the women from the council meeting, while some of them were crying loudly and a great commotion was taking place in the hall.
Ultimately, after the women's representative announced that Mayor Rubinstein had refused to meet with the club's participants for months, an agreement was reached between Wieder and the mayor that the municipality would hold a working meeting with the women's representative this evening, with the aim of presenting a solution as soon as possible.
