The "National Shabbos Goy" trend is not just coming to the rails authority for the purpose of performing line upgrades on Shabbos. Now the Rabbanut will be jumping on that train as well and using the National Shabbos Goyim for the purpose of body removal on Shabbos.
During the week if someone dies, the Chevra Kadisha takes care of the body removal as part of the free package every citizen is entitled to upon death. If the same person dies on Shabbos, body removal is no longer free (though the same person can't die on Shabbos if he already died during the week, nyuk nyuk). Someone who dies on Sahbbos, let's say at home during Friday night dinner, will have to either stay there until after Shabbos, despite the discomfort and mental trauma and sadness it might cause the family members, or the family will have to pay a lot of money for someone to remove the body.
The Rabbanut has decided that the Chevra Kadisha will begin using non-Jews to do body removal on Shabbos, and will provide this as part of the free service it always provides. They will open a hotline, also operated by non-Jews, for this purpose.
The Chevra Kadisha says that this is a situation that repeats itself every Shabbos in places around the country. The situation until now has forced people to call private ambulances to remove the bodies, only to later find themselves strapped with bills of thousands of shekels, along with other "macherim" that got involved and took advantage of the affected families and charged a lot of money.
source: Kipa
Soon we are going to run out of shabbos goyim, between all the ones employed by private organizations and people around the country and between the ones soon to be employed by the government to run the country on Shabbos... soon we might even see the argument over public transportation on Shabbos resolved by making use of Shabbos Goyim as bus and train drivers, and then all those markets in Tel Aviv and elsewhere that want to stay open will also start doing so by hiring Shabbos Goyim to get away with it. We are on our way to having a 7-day "active" week - 6 days by Jews and 1 day by goyim.
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