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Miriam Shear (b. c. 1956) is an American-Israeli
American Jews

American Jews, or Jewish Americans, are Jews who are United States citizens or resident aliens. The United States is home to the second largest Jewish community in the world depending on religious definitions and varying population data....
 woman who, on November 24, 2006, on a five-week vacation to Israel, was allegedly attacked and beaten by a group of Haredi Jewish men (an ad hoc "modesty patrol") on her way to pray at the Western Wall
Western Wall

The Western Wall , sometimes referred to as the Wailing Wall or simply the Kotel , and as al-Buraq Wall by Muslims, is an important Jewish religious site located in the Old City ....
 while riding a bus in Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
. She refused to give up her seat and move to the back of the bus, after a disagreement as to whether she should sit separate from the men.






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Miriam Shear (b. c. 1956) is an American-Israeli
American Jews

American Jews, or Jewish Americans, are Jews who are United States citizens or resident aliens. The United States is home to the second largest Jewish community in the world depending on religious definitions and varying population data....
 woman who, on November 24, 2006, on a five-week vacation to Israel, was allegedly attacked and beaten by a group of Haredi Jewish men (an ad hoc "modesty patrol") on her way to pray at the Western Wall
Western Wall

The Western Wall , sometimes referred to as the Wailing Wall or simply the Kotel , and as al-Buraq Wall by Muslims, is an important Jewish religious site located in the Old City ....
 while riding a bus in Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
. She refused to give up her seat and move to the back of the bus, after a disagreement as to whether she should sit separate from the men. The case is still being investigated.

While Egged Bus Cooperative
Egged Bus Cooperative

Egged Israel Transport Cooperative Society Ltd is the largest bus company in Israel, and the second largest in the world . A cooperative owned by its members, Egged employs 6227 workers and has 3105 buses for more than 1038 service routes and 3984 alternative routes all over Israel....
 does operate sex-segregated
Sex segregation

Sex segregation is the separation of people according to their gender.The derogatory term gender apartheid has been applied to segregation of people by gender, implying that it is sexual discrimination....
 "Mehadrin" bus lines within Israel, the route Shear rode was a publicly-funded non-segregated line. The bus driver contends there was no violence, but that he did see a crowd around Shear and stopped the bus to inform passengers that his line was not sex-segregated. Egged's Mehadrin routes have come under heavy criticism since the incident, being compared to former racial segregation in the United States
Racial segregation in the United States

Racial segregation in the United States, as a general term, included the racial segregation of facilities, services, and opportunities such as housing, education, employment, and transportation along race in the United States lines....
. Shear has been compared to African-American icons Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African American civil rights activism whom the Congress of the United States later called the "Mother of the Modern-Day African-American Civil Rights Movement ."...
 and Sammy Davis Jr. since the incident, for refusing to give up her bus seat.

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