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," by saying, "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."