The government approved a bill today to end Daylight Savings Time three weeks earlier than planned. Only one minister, Housing Minister Natan Sharansky, voted against the proposal. Interior Minister Eli Yeshai (Shas), who initiated the change, said that it would benefit the lion\'s share of the population that fasts on Yom Kippur, as the fast will now end at 7 PM instead of 8 PM. Despite this, the change was widely criticized as a manifestation of unwanted intervention by religious political interests in public life.