11.01.2013                      29.Tewet. 5773

Wahlen am 22. Januar:

NGO requests subsidized vans for disabled to vote

Yad Sarah asks chairman of the Central Elections Committee to subsidize vans taking disabled people in wheelchairs to and from voting stations.

Moshe Cohen, director of the voluntary organization’s services and branches department, complained about “discrimination” against the those that will transport the disabled on January 22. Firms that take healthy voters to distant polling stations such as the Israel Railways and the bus companies are subsidized by the state, but not Yad Sarah’s van services, which have been operating at low cost to help the disabled for 25 years….