Bezalel Smotrich, religious-Zionist Minister of Transportation, has been urged to ban all public transportation on Shabbat. Guy Bossi, writing on behalf of a large contingent of rabbis and other public figures, said that Smotrich has the lawful authority to take such action. Quoting from the Book of Esther, when Mordechai urges Esther to go the king to ask him to nullify Haman's genocidal decree against the Jews, Bossi wrote: "Who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?"