For the kids, there are non-electrical devices made to look like hand-held video games.[2]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdbkvJznmwU [2] http://www.kosherimage.com/watergame.html
For the kids, there are non-electrical devices made to look like hand-held video games.[2]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdbkvJznmwU [2] http://www.kosherimage.com/watergame.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activities_prohibited_on_Shabb...
"Many poskim ground their prohibition of operating electrical appliances in this melakha."
There was one of those at a hotel I stayed at by the Dead Sea, but in general their elevator situation was different than the ones I've seen in the US and Europe: I encountered multiple elevators in Israel where you selected a floor at a central panel outside the elevator, then the elevator itself would arrive and take you to the floor, rather than having the buttons on the inside. I wasn't able to figure out (nor can I find online) whether that design was related to not doing something on the sabbath.
Never in Israel though.
It's apparently more efficient.