I’ve been leaving here close to twenty years, and this is the first time I feel the State/government of Israel is really trying to actively destroy yiddishkeit.
Not Yiddishkeit, but Charaidism. Halacha has no issue with having the same waiting room for both men and women.
Can you blame them? Charaidism (as shown in RBS, Yerushalyim, Beitar, etc.) is trying to destroy the secular way of life by force in many parts of Israel.
I do think this would have never happened if the Charaidim would have decided to visit the infidel with explanatory pamphlets instead of spitting, passing laws to exclude and burning busses. Once you decide to not “live and let live” (and yes, that is even if they walk though “your” neighborhood), expect others to fight back.