Transportation Minister Ephraim Sneh has asked Police Commissioner Shlomo Aharonishki to stop issuing tickets to pirate taxi operators. Sneh says that after last week's Cabinet decision to award licenses to the pirate operators, it would be unfair to issue them tickets or otherwise punish them during the few months it will take for the legalization to be actualized.
Two Arutz-7 staffers recently queried Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein as to why the government retroactively legalized illegal taxi lines, in light of the fact that the Supreme Court recently disqualified a Knesset law that would have done something similar for Arutz-7. It should be noted that though Arutz-7 is not and was never illegal, because it broadcasts from extra-territorial waters, the Court overturned a Knesset-passed law calling to grant it a license.
Two Arutz-7 staffers recently queried Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein as to why the government retroactively legalized illegal taxi lines, in light of the fact that the Supreme Court recently disqualified a Knesset law that would have done something similar for Arutz-7. It should be noted that though Arutz-7 is not and was never illegal, because it broadcasts from extra-territorial waters, the Court overturned a Knesset-passed law calling to grant it a license.