BREAKING NEWS

Wheelchair-bound woman receives NIS 50,000 from bus company

JUNE 13, 2011 17:41

A wheelchair-bound woman is to receive damages amounting to some NIS 50,000 from the Metrodan Public Transport Company, after a Beersheva Magistrates Court ruled last week that the bus drivers’ refusal to allow her access multiple times onto a public bus was illegal, the National Commission for People with Disabilities announced Monday.

According to the information provided by the Justice Ministry, which oversees the commission, wheelchair-bound Efrat Vaknin turned to the commission last year after being refused access several times to public buses run by Metrodan around the city of Beersheva.

Working on the basis a 1998 law demanding the equal treatment of people with disabilities in all spheres of Israeli society, the commission submitted a petition to the court pointing out Vaknin’s right to accessibility on public city buses.

Freed hostage Eli Sharabi speaks at Auschwitz for March of the Living

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

04/24/2025 01:31 PM

Spain cancels purchase of bullets from Israel

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

04/24/2025 01:28 PM

Yair Lapid absent from official Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremonies

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

04/24/2025 01:13 PM

IDF strikes terrorists located in Hamas, PIJ command facility in Gaza

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

04/24/2025 11:09 AM