Israel's Sephardi chief rabbi has weighed into the ongoing issue of gender segregation in public areas.
In recent months there have been reports of Orthodox passengers enforcing a de facto segregation system on buses in Jerusalem and other areas, with woman who board told to sit at the back.
In January, the Supreme Court outlawed buses with enforced segregation along gender lines, and, earlier this year Israel's High Court of Justice ruled against the gender segregation of streets and pavements in the Orthodox district of Mea She'arim.
Today Rabbi Shlomo Amar delivered an unequivocal warning to those who support it, cautioning that the practice is "not Jewish law".
