Posters Try to Ban Colour Cell Phones

Posters have been appearing in walls in Jerusalem calling on "Torah fearing Jews" not to buy or sell mobile phones that have colour screens. The posters are signed by orthodox Rabbis Pinhas Sheinberg, Shmuel Auerbach, Nissim Karelitz, Eliyahu Abu-Shaul and Naftali Nussbaum.

It is thought that the campaign is based on the fact that the handsets have access to the internet, which is frowned upon by selected Jewish sects.

The influential Belz Hasidic sect imposed a ban on internet access to its members in October 2000 due to the existence of pornography on the internet."

Posted to the site on 10th November 2003