A portable synagogue has been established on the trans-Israel Route 6 for the benefit of the pious. Religious travelers often have difficulty during longer trips -- they pull over on the wayside to pray, and that is not always allowed, or safe. Migdal Haemek Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Dovid Grossman took it upon himself to help religious travelers on the road. Grossman asked Derech Eretz, the road operator for Route 6 -- a toll road -- to erect a mobile structure that could function as a synagogue between the Baqa and Iron Interchanges. "The synagogue will safeguard and protect the highway and its travelers," said Grossman this week after the synagogue became operational. Derech Eretz CEO Ehud (Udi) Savion said he was pleased with his "humble" contribution to Israeli drivers and passengers. "I assured Rabbi Grossman that we would establish the same kind of synagogue on the southbound side of the highway, and we will try and do that as soon as possible," he added. Derech Eretz also pledged to signpost directions to the synagogue.
Godspeed: Portable synagogue established on national toll road
Religious travelers will be able to pull over safely to pray in a new mobile synagogue, erected by request of the Migdal Haemek chief rabbi • Derech Eretz, operator of trans-Israel Route 6, vows to build another synagogue on highway's opposite side too.
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