A bus driver of Egged transport company was fined for hanging an Israeli flag in his bus.

“Thirty years this flag is placed in the bus, and now they removed it,” the driver said. “It’s like tearing my heart away.”

A supervisor of the Ministry of Transportation noticed the flag when entering the bus, reprimanded the driver and handed him a fine for placing an object that could obstruct the field of sight.

However, the bus driver claimed that he placed the flag in a location that does not violate the ministry’s instructions. He further uploaded a video in which he called on Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli to interfere as the flags are “our lives, our hearts.”