Bus Segregation Challenged.

By Israel Faxx News Services

Orthodox novelist Naomi Ragen is leading efforts by Israeli women to end sexual segregation on some bus lines in Israel. Ragen and five other women this week petitioned Israel's High Court of Justice to order the national bus lines not to go along with demands from fervently Orthodox communities that female commuters sit in the back and dress modestly.

The biggest bus company, Egged, says that 30 of its lines are segregated by gender at the passengers' request. Ragen told Israel Radio that her campaign was prompted by the experience of being ordered to the back of a bus by a male passenger.

"The driver didn't even open his mouth in my defense," she said. "I got off the bus with the dreadful, dreadful feeling that in my country I have to take a public bus home that is under Taliban rule."

Another woman was forced off a bus in the middle of the highway for wearing a skirt that came only to her knees.

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