Israel: Women Militia Formed to Confront Extremists
Bonot Alternativa (Building an Alternative) in Tel Aviv has established a women's militia to combat the ultra-Orthodox attempts to impose a “modest dress code” on women and girls in public transportation buses. This announcement follows six incidents in August alone in which extremist Jews offended women for not wearing modest clothes or for daring to get on a bus. On Sunday, a group of teenage girls trying to get on a bus in Ashdod were told by the driver to cover up because they were wearing “immodest” clothes. The girls were told to sit at the back of the bus.