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High Court: Chametz can be admitted to Passover hospitals | Israel today

2020-04-30T11:05:37.568Z


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According to the ruling, the Knesset will be allowed food of any kind and must not search the files on the hospital island to check its service. • Petitioners: "The End of Religious Coercion" • The Rabbinate: "Will Dispute"

  • The introduction of chametz is not prohibited

Supreme Court justices ruled Thursday that Israeli hospitals do not have the authority to prohibit entering their gates to enter food into the hospital compound during Passover, other than fresh vegetables and fruits or packaged food bearing a Passover kosher label.

It was also determined that security guards were not allowed to search for food on the hospital island's tools or to contact the hospital's counsel with any comment, guidance or attention regarding food intake during Passover. The Chief Rabbinate is opposed to the decision.

MK Tamar Zandberg, of the petition to the Beggz initiative: "Beggz did justice to religious coercion and arrested a disgraceful practice in hospitals. The Chametz police have no place either in hospitals or anywhere else. The next will be the abolition of the Chametz Law. "In contrast, the Chief Rabbinate argued that the introduction of such food would fall into the focus of controversy among hospital Islanders.

Prof. Aviad HaCohen, Advocate for the Chief Rabbinate of Israel: "Unfortunately, the court made a decision that the last place in Israel where they stayed together - patient and visiting staff - Jews and Arabs, secular and religious ultra-Orthodox will become a focus of controversy. The verdict will have broad implications. For all the training courses in the many authorities in the State of Israel that go far beyond the question of chametz in the Passover hospitals. "

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The B'Tselem organization said in response to the HCJ decision: "The HCJ again harms the rights of most Israeli residents for a vocal and extreme minority composed of terrorists. There is no doubt that traditionally observant Jews will be banned from eating in hospitals. But when has the HCJ taken care of their human rights? He is busy looking after the human rights of infiltrators and boycotters. "

Free Israel and Torah and Labor trustees, my friends of the court, said: The High Court has unequivocally stated that hospitals do not have the authority to prohibit the introduction of food by individuals into the area of ​​the Passover hospital. There is a clear statement here by the High Court - the solution cannot come by coercion, but by regulation and dialogue, while reaching consensus. 

They also called on the hospitals to adopt the proposed outline as a possible solution, which has a wide halakhic back, in which the public will be asked not to consume private food in the hospital's utensils and anyone who wants to receive their food in the hospital with disposable tools during the holiday can do so. "We are sorry that such an issue has led us all to two years of deliberations, again putting a spotlight on the public's frustration and disconnection from it, as well as consuming the time of the High Court judges. The High Court, like most of the Israeli public, said it."

Source: israelhayom

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