Contempt Claim in Court: Tel Aviv does not enforce the law of the Sabbath

Grocers in Tel - Aviv and Small Merchants Association filed today (Wednesday) District Court of Tel - Aviv application for contempt of court against the city of Tel - Aviv, claiming that the municipality and the mayor, Ron Huldai, do not obey the ruling requiring them to enforce the bylaw prohibiting urban retail chains to open on Saturday.

Application for contempt of court accompanied by criticism of the conduct of the municipality has set the judgments against it. According to the applicants, starting from 30 May 2014 the municipality was supposed to do everything to the bylaw will be maintained in practice - in every business in the city, and retail chains stores were to be closed according to him.

According to the grocers, court decisions violated crudely on - by the city and - by retail chains ignoring it: "Anyone who went to the streets of Tel - Aviv weekends since the judgment, could see with his own - eyes how the bylaw is broken all across the city's streets, and the court despised every week and proudly for all to see, "stated please.

According to the petitioners, a week after the start of operation "Preventive Edge" Tel - Aviv announced that the verdict will not enforce the bylaw on the weekends, "due to the" security situation ".
Please read this: "This is of course absurd pretext, who cover the municipality will suspend its belligerent campaign against the decisions of the courts and the interior minister a more convenient time for public speaking and media ... as far as Tel - Aviv does not suffer from serious security in relation to local authorities other, but it only uses the situation as an excuse for not fulfilling legal obligations., and was there to ask - what is the connection between security and non-compliance verdict? "

Grocery store owners and small traders argue, even this procedure, the conduct of retail chains and lack of enforcement of the municipality violates property rights and livelihoods in difficult and every week, while retail chains continue to get rich on the backs of breach of the law.

Applicants claim that they are entitled to a weekly day off, like any other employee in the Israeli economy. According to them, it is a primary social element, and right livelihood fair and equal competition conditions are the soul of a sophisticated economy.

Application highlights the motives of chain stores on the island - the compliance of the judgment, when it comes to profits - the next copy them from another trading day of the week.

Applicants indicate the same cynical campaign leading retail chains, supposedly designed to keep the "surroundings" of Tel - Aviv, when in fact it came to obscure the economic motivations of those retail chains.

Recall that a judgment given a few months ago the District Court prohibited the city of Tel - Aviv settle fines for supermarkets opened on Saturday (which Tiv networking and AM: PM) and to the municipality to order the closure.

Following the ruling the municipality asked to amend the bylaw to enable it to opening shops on Saturdays. At the end of last June Interior Minister Gideon Saar sparked a storm when prevented from the City of Tel - Aviv to pass the amendment and new sections of the statue.

Saar even quoted Chaim Bialik when hewrote a letter in 1933 about the Sabbath: "Eretz Israel without a Sabbath would be built but will be destroyed, and all your works will be chaos. Am Yisrael will never give up the Sabbath, which is not only the basis of Israel's existence, those of human existence. Without Saturday there is no image of - God and humanity to the world. "

Attorneys David Shub and Ivri Feingold, legal advisors to the struggle of the groceries, said that "In recent months we have witnessed an escalation of the most alarming contempt for the rule of law in Tel - Aviv., After years of violations constant of law on the part of the municipality of Tel - Aviv and networks 24 / 7, and the courts ordered them to obey the law, violate the municipality and the supermarket chains than two months the court orders and continue to operate not only against the law, but also contrary to explicit judgments. "

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