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Palestinian workers with Israeli work permit try to broad a Israel bus line only for Palestinians, after they crossed the Eyal checkpoint, near the West Bank city of Qalqilya, March 4, 2012.
Israeli transportation ministry launched on Monday a special bus line from Eyal check point to Tel Aviv and Kfar Saba, and back to the checkpoint, after Israel settlers, living in the West Bank, complained that Palestinians use Israeli buses driving in the West Bank on their way to and from work inside Israel.
The new policy will effect mainly workers returning to the West Bank with Israeli buses, as police will force workers to go off buses when they enter the West Bank.

Photos: Israel’s new ‘Palestinian only’ segregated bus lines

A new Israeli bus line will serve only Palestinians. Officials claim it’s not segregation, but the ongoing experience of discrimination faced by Palestinian workers speaks for itself. Photos by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org Early this morning, Palestinians from the West Bank with permits to work inside the state of Israel crammed onto bus lines specially created for…

By Activestills March 4, 2013

Can the Rainbow flag and the Star of David co-exist in Israel? Human Rights March, Dec. 2010 (Photo: Yossi Gurvitz)

Marriage, gay marriage: Just how liberal is Israel?

As New York legalizes gay marriage, Israel looks more and more like a theocracy The senate of the state of New York legalized civil marriages between gay couples tonight. New York, where the fight for gay rights began, is the sixth state in the US which affirms the rights of gay people to marry. South…

By Yossi Gurvitz June 25, 2011