Word: yerushalmi
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...would sanctify Jerusalem, but many Israelis envisioned the city becoming a ghost town on the Sabbath, with all restaurants shut and cars banned from many neighborhoods. They also feared that Porush would have pushed for the segregation of men and women on buses and in municipal offices. Shalom Yerushalmi, a columnist for the daily Maariv, wrote, "I know many people who returned the suitcases to the closets, after promising to pack up and leave the city ... Now everyone is waiting for a miracle...