Secular Attorney Idan Abuhav Leads Fight to Keep Shops Closed on Shabbos
PEOPLE’S HERO “It’s a basic right of every Jew wherever he is to rest one day a week whether he is an atheist heretic traditional or religious. Shabbos is our common national denominator”
I dan Abuhav relishes his role as the secular attorney leading the fight to keep shops in Tel Aviv and elsewhere in Israel closed on Shabbos. The outspoken Abuhav has built a private practice in Ramat Gan that specializes in representing citizens’ groups in their legal battles against the government and the courts. As the attorney for the Association (Secular) for Saturday Free of Commerce Abuhav will battle to reverse the Supreme Court’s recent precedent-setting decision to grant permits to 160 Tel Aviv businesses to breach the prohibition against work on the holiest day of the week.
What are your major legal objections to the Supreme Court ruling?
First of all I want to avoid placing the entire blame on the Supreme Court. Two successive governments have avoided making any decisions or passing any legislation to clear this matter up. So we can’t exactly complain about the courts when the legislative body of the Jewish state faltered in embarrassing fashion on such a core Jewish issue.
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