Although the No. 2 Jerusalem bus where the incident occurred is not actually defined as a mehadrin line, Erez-Likhovski says that Shear's story is further proof that the issue requires legal clarification. About 30 Egged buses are designated as mehadrin, mostly on inter-city lines, but they are not marked to indicate this. "There's no way to identify a mehadrin bus, which in itself is a problem," she said.
"Theoretically, a person can sit wherever they want, even on a mehadrin line, but we're seeing that people are enforcing [the gender segregation] even on non-mehadrin lines and that's the part of the danger," she said.
I was expecting to read towards the end that she was being brought up on charges of kicking that one guy in the nuts. Hey, if it is "public transportation" and the buses are not marked as so, anyone can sit where they damn well please.
I'm glad she got off a kick to that guy's smallies. That might make him think twice about slapping around a woman on a public bus.