A Chareidi man recently signed a mediation agreement with the Tel Aviv Municipality compensating him and his family for discriminatory treatment by a municipality employee.
The incident occurred last summer when the Chareidi family was on an outing at the Ganei Yehoshua park in Tel Aviv. At one point, the man gave his children money to buy drinks and popsicles at a nearby kiosk. Shortly later, his children returned crying, saying that the seller had screamed at them and refused to sell them drinks, and even banged on the counter, scaring them. The mother and her friend then approached the kiosk and were also targeted with similar disparaging and humiliating anti-Chareidi remarks.
When the father then approached the kiosk himself, the seller refused to apologize for his behavior.
The man later filed a lawsuit against the municipality for NIS 540,000 for discriminatory treatment on basis of religion. The two sides eventually agreed to settle the dispute via mediation. The compensation reached in the agreement was banned from publication but the municipality issued a public apology for the employee’s behavior.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Finally the tziyonim and leftists learn that discrimination isn’t just against arabs, LGBTQ, and snowflakes, but also to those who hold jewish religious beliefs. The double standard is usually glaring.
to yeshivaman613 you wrote “the tzeyinim and leftists learn”
its their rules not to discriminate and they put their money where their mouth is.. nobody forced them.. when one of their does not live up to this non discrimination value they pay up, even to a Charedie!
Would we do the same?