Gett: Israeli taxi app sued for service used to avoid Arab drivers
Summary
Human rights lawyers in Jerusalem have sued Gett, an Israeli taxi-hailing app, for providing a service they allege was designed to give customers the option to practically guarantee they would not get an Arab driver. Before submitting the case, Pink and a local rights group, the Israel Religious Action Center, commissioned a private investigation that they said proved the service was tailored to be discriminatory. In October 2018, two people posing as aspiring drivers met Gett’s Jerusalem representative, Herzl Moshe, according to the investigation’s report. She doesn’t care if the driver is religious or not because what she wants is a Jewish driver.” The private investigation firm later sent an Arab man to ask if he could join the service, and he was refused, it said in the report. Anat Hoffman, executive director of the Israel Religious Action Center, said Gett Mehadrin masked racial discrimination with Jewish practice.