MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism), the chairman of the Knesset’s finance committee, offered an explanation Tuesday for the string of disruptions in the newly-opened high-speed train line from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
During a committee hearing on Tuesday, during which committee members discussed funding for the Transportation Ministry, Gafni blamed a recent series of technical malfunctions affecting trains on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv line on Sabbath desecration by the Transportation Ministry.
“There has been a wave of malfunctions on the trains to Jerusalem that is unmatched. Not one specific kind of problem, but suddenly a train has a problem, suddenly doors won’t open – every day there’s a problem.”
“Did you, in the Transportation Ministry, ever think to yourselves that the Sabbath might be responding in kind to the [Sabbath] desecration? I believe that as a result of the work carried out on the Sabbath we have these inexplicable malfunctions.”