Israel’s Religious Affairs Ministry plans to arrange separate walking paths for men and women expected to take part in the traditional pilgrimage to Mount Miron during Friday’s Lag B’Omer festival. Legislator Naomi Hazan of the secular Meretz Party protested the move, which was prompted by the spiritual leader of the fervently Orthodox Shas Party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Israeli daily Ma’ariv reported.
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