High Court to Rule Today if Tel Aviv Supermarkets Will Operate on Shabbat

The leftist courts in Israel are pushing further and further from the Torah:

A ruling Thursday by the High Court of Justice is expected to end the long-running saga of grocery stores in Tel Aviv opening on Shabbat.

For more than a decade, the Association of Tradesmen and Independent Business Owners has fought a campaign to force large grocery chains such as AM:PM and others to close on Shabbat because opening contravened the law and represented unfair competition for independent stores that elect to close on the Sabbath.

In 2013, the High Court ruled in favor of a petition by the association based on the prohibitions in Tel Aviv municipal law, but the Tel Aviv Municipal Council then approved a municipal bylaw in 2014 that specifically allowed 165 grocery stores around the city to open on Shabbat.

However, the bylaw never received the required approval of an interior minister and, eventually, the Tel Aviv Municipal Council petitioned the High Court to force the government to make a decision on its bylaw.

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