Charedim Protest Egged Bus

Members of an extremist ultra-Orthodox sect called the Sikrikim are protesting in Mea She’arim because Egged refused to create ‘Mehadrin’ lines to separate men and women.

Egged’s Line 1, which runs from the Central Bus Station to the Western Wall, has returned to the streets of Mea She’arim more than a year and a half after the bus cooperative stopped servicing most of the Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox neighborhood due to violence against the buses.