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What's the problem? As far as I understood, the system generally works like most pedestrian traffic lights I know:
Pedestrians who want to cross the road need to press a button so they get green.

Because of the many orthodox jews in that area, they decided to slightly change the traffic light's control logic:
On Sabbath, the pedestrian traffic light will periodically turn green even if the button hasn't been pressed.

This should really only be slight changes in software that comes at no additional cost, so what's the big deal?

Anyway, I must say that strict orthodox judaism has by far the weirdest and most restricting religious rules I've ever heard of. I think I will never understand how some people can possibly voluntarily obey them. Some of their religious rules seem so bizarre and antiquated that in comparison, even the Amish look like people from the 22nd century...