Prime minister: Segregating genders against democratic, Jewish values; president: If a man doesn’t want to get on a bus, then he shouldn’t get on.

Both Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres championed a woman’s right to sit or appear in public spaces freely during a human trafficking conference at the Presindent’s Residence in Jerusalem Friday.

Israel is no place “to exclude anyone, certainly not half the population,” the prime minister said.

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