MORE HYPOCRISY!

MK Gafni: PM is not aware of what is happening in this country

Chairman Moshe Gafni of the Knesset Finance Committee has responded to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's statement that "I do not think that it is reasonable to close a transportation axis, the Ayalon Highway, during the middle of the week,”

"He apparently is not so aware of what is happening in the country."

Netanyahu was responding to Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz's decision to move construction of a pedestrian and bicycle bridge over the Ayalon from the Jewish Sabbath to weeknights. In any case, one direction of traffic will have to be closed.

Rabbi Gafni noted,

"They closed the Ayalon Highway not long ago for a ‘parade'.

They closed the Ayalon Highway for a 'sports competition', along with other central roads, and . . .

no one spoke a word.”

Transportation Minister Katz:

Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz says he is faced with criticism and pressure in light of his decision to cancel Shabbat construction of a pedestrian bridge over the Ayalon Highway.

"I made a decision that's correct from a moral and professional standpoint. [Notorious] Tel Aviv Mayor *Ron Huldai made a cynical political move and issued a provocative and outrageous statement about closing the Ayalon Highway for six weekends to accumulate political capital for the upcoming local elections and to hurt the haredim, but by the way he was willing to harm hundreds of thousands of drivers who travel on Ayalon weekends and that will not happen," Katz said in an interview with Kann Bet.

"The reality on the Ayalon Highway in the coming months is that we are carrying out work to complete the express train line to Jerusalem. There was need to weigh the matter; the train would serve hundreds of thousands of people, unlike a pedestrian bridge. Anyone who criticized me has achieved nothing."

Katz called the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality's announcement that construction of the Yehudit Bridge and closing the Ayalon Highway for six weeks to carry out the work an "outrageous and unnecessary" statement.

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* The Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai: ASPCA: As mayor of ‘vegan capital of world,’ Huldai should have been more compassionate (and not have bragged about eating dog in Vietnam). Huldai, who has been mayor since 1998, rationalized consuming the controversial food by asking: “Why is it okay to eat shellfish as well as chickens, but not a dog?” According to SPCA Israel spokesman Gadi Vitner, the answer is plenty. Man eats dog (JPost)