Israel Museum to introduce sex-segregated visiting hours for Haredi exhibit

The Israel Museum does not discriminate, nor does it segregate, based on gender. The Museum is not changing its admissions policy; the entire Museum remains open to everyone during normal visiting hours. We regularly make arrangements for private groups to visit the Museum after hours, and give special consideration to the requests of private groups whose cultural practices are on view.

Is why I left Israel, is not my country anymore, and is getting worse. Shame, that we are going backwards instead to look for the future.

Good of you to notify the general public when this will occur because I have no wish to witness such a disgrace with my own eyes. By the way, I advise the museum to be more occupied by the behavior of the Haredi visitors than by segregation, Last time I was in the museum during a holiday when admission was free, the museum was full with Haredi families touching oil paintings with their fingers, making fun of impressionistic paintings and their artistic value compared to Jewish art, sitting on Chinese furniture from centuries ago which were on exhibition. It was truly a site to remember. The Haredim seem to lack any education of how one should behave in a museum of art.

Shame to us... It's far a way the only democratic country in Middle East!

pathetic... if this is the future of our state, then we might as well pack up and leave now

For the museum to give the Hasidic, the right to separate hours is despicable.It gives any people the right to discriminate. The museum, board should bow their heads in shame

Am I the only one who finds this disturbing? If we keep catering to ultra orthodox "religious" sensitivities like the segregation between men and women we are asking for our own doom and will very soon find ourselves no different from Iran or former Taliban led Afghanistan.

Wheee. Back to the 7th century.