Yisrael Beytenu MK Robert Ilatov blasted Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz's decision to stop road work on Tel Aviv's Ayalon highway because it was scheduled to take place on Shabbat.

"It is not clear why Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz has repeatedly capitulated to the dictates of the haredi parties, and to hell with the secular public, which works hard from morning to night and is going to suffer severely as a result of the work on the middle of the week, not on Shabbat," said Ilatov.