It is a bike. People have already paid for it. People ride their bikes all the time on Yom Kippur. I never, ever, am tempted to use rude language but the author is so divorced from reality that I am tempted. You don't have to rent it if you don't want to, don't tell everyone else what to do.

The quietness of Israeli streets on Yom Kippur is due to public choice, not state law: it's legal to drive if you wish. The same may happen with bikes, and if not, so be it. Let Israelis decide how religious or secular they wish to be. Religious people are welcome to walk.

If we place identity on a bicycle, it's really the end of all. Such an opinion is worse than Ayatollahs.... Iran- Israel, same thinking... Sad.

Enough of the rrligiois fanatics imposing their will on the rest of us. We are not telling you to adopt our life style and we do not to adapt yours. If i want to walk on yon kippur is my decision not yours. Next you will come to inspect my kitchen see if i am fasting? SEPARATE RELIGION FROM STATE NOW!

How on earth can you construe the use of a bike on Yom Kippur as secular fanaticism. Israel is a nation that encompasses all Jews of all degrees of Jewishness. How dare you dictate how one should behave just to conform to your intolerant religious fanaticism. Democracy in its simplest form enables the freedom to live ones life as you wish providing that you do not harm another. Anyone who dares to disagree is either classified as a liberal (as if that is an insult)or a denier of the the authority of Hashem. So be it; I do not accept the concept of this God and yet I am as Jewish as the next.

Once again secular people are being forced to live by religious rules that they do not belive in. People should have a choice not be dictated to, The fact is in Tel Aviv thousands of people ride their bikes on Yom kippur and theres no reason what so ever that people shouldnt be able to rent bikes that day. Attempting to force such ridiculous rules on secular people will only have the opposite affect.

are inventions of Man, figments of his imagination. My imagination does not go that far. I have no use for symbols in order to express the meaning of my life or to show loyalty to my country.

The normal people who do not believe in voodoo are now termed fanatics.

If you want to worship some random day of the year, go ahead and do it, I will be barbequing and listening to music in my balcony. That's what I want to do.

...two evils. see... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law

Just allow the use from before Yom Kippur till after the fast is over as one day. There is no need to do more. Cars are rented to Heredi's in brookyn on Friday at 12PM and they are returned on Sunday before 12 and are charged for one day. Is that what was suggested? so what is the problem. Just4wheels is the company that rents that way. Brooklyn, Lakewood, etc… The special.

if you don't like it, don't ride it. Your opinion is one of many.

Judaism "including the removal of Chabad members from the Ramat Aviv Mall to prevent them from 'attacking' innocent civilians and spreading their faith" say everything we need to know about those who will not allow for the florid richness of Jews to express themselves in reflection or action at any given moment and for any given inspiration. For me, I do believe that I will ride my Trek into the hills and reflect--I never eat much anyway.

Giving powers to enforcers who threaten a moving vehicle with curses and are throwing stones at it is ridiculous. Hooligan behavior like this is an expression by Israeli citizens that the country remains retarded, that fanaticism is still the rule. If Israel brought such policies to a vote and saw how soundly the current Yom Kipur policies were defeated, the madness would end. Police would be stationed on each street corner and hooligans arrested on Yom Kippur. Halevai. But the government will not dare because Israel is dominated by religious parties which sit in the coalition. Time to end this retardation, this hooliganism, this shameful madness.

if the author believes that this is what the people want, he needs not worry-no one will rent any of the bikes, if he is right. if he is wrong , than maybe, just maybe, the Israelis might be sick of working to sustain an ever growing population that does not work and does not serve in the army. By the way, even religious Jews much smarter than the small rabbis in Bnei Barak worked. The Rambam was a doctor..

It will threaten Israel's identity?! Give us a break.

Nobody's suggesting that he EAT the bicycles. What could be more Jewish \ Israeli that bicycling after Kol Nidre?

So I am not Israeli because I eat on Yom Kippur? I am not Israeli because I don't see Yom Kippur any differently than I do any other day? I was still Israeli enough to serve in the army. I am still Israeli enough to do myluim.I am still Israeli enough to pay taxes. Why do you get to decide how I should live my life. What about nonJewish Israelis? Are they not Israeli either? And than you wonder why the world says this is a racist country. The writer of this article should be ashamed of himself and his lack of respect for liberty of the individual.

freedom on the roads,,,,its a sin not to take advantage of it.,,,and lets not forget FREEDOM

Make any bike checked out in the evening before yom kippur not needed to be returned for an entire day for some discounted rate. However, then when yom kippur starts, any still locked up stay locked.

Unfortunately it will take a barrage of rockets to teach Tel Avivians to respect Yom Kippur

whatever they want in their quarters, why should the seculars not have the same right?

But not in the Israeli theocracy that once was considered the Jewel of Democracy in the Middle East.

The streets and autostradas in Israel are filled with biking kids and their parents on Yom Kippur. This is as much an Israeli experience as people walking to the synagogue on that day, and this has co-existed for decades. Seculars respect the no-driving rule (including private cars) everywhere. But don't force your faked 'identity' on us. It is ok for a private biker to use his bike, but if he takes it a day before at a public station he is loosing his Israeli identity? Give me a break! I suggest the orthodox try to get out of the shtetl and pick up a bit if Israeli identity by serving in the army!

A nation that truly belongs in the MidEast. Too bad the 'arab Spring' won't ever reach your borders. Perhaps it would modernise you.

The widespread riding of bicycles on Yom Kippur is an established phenomenon. I think it is disgusting as it is an open sign of disrespect of the day and endangers people trying to walk to synagogue, but it is also a fact of life. The question of the rental bikes is simply a diversion. It would be better to open all roads to vehicular traffic as on any Saturday as it would be safer for both pedestrians and would give the MDA a bit of rest on Yom Kippur

Israel was founded in order for Jews to have a normal life away from the obscurantism of orthodox religion. Nobody knows if the religious are right or the secular about g-d - I suppose that we only know whne we die - it is a question of belief. Bicycle riding is an integral and beautiful part of the Yom Kippur experience in Israel - and no threat to anyone. Religious extremism on the other hand is an existential threat to the future of the country and is a problem that has to be tackled by the government before it is too late and the Jewish Ayatollahs take over, forcing us secular donkeys out of the country and leading to its financial ruin and military defeat.