The woman's brother, fearing for peace after failing to reach her and summoning police who transported her to Abarbanel Hospital • It was decided to hospitalize her because she had previously tried to end her life

• Abarbanel Hospital // Photo: Joshua Yosef

How easy is the hand on the trigger when it comes to forced hospitalization? This can be learned from the following story. Specializing in the office in her 30s, she had a straight year in her home and did not answer the phone. Due to a psychiatric past, her brother, fearing she was trying to hurt herself, alerted police who transferred her to forced hospitalization. Five days later, District Court Judge Zion Kafah ordered her to be released immediately.

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It all began last week when a woman did not answer her friend's phone, he reported it to her brother, who also tried to get her that morning. For police officers who came to the scene and knocked on the door, she opened it, and no matter how hard she tried to explain to the police because she didn't answer the phone because she felt bad, they transferred her to Abarbanel Hospital. There, it was decided to hospitalize her forcibly, since a few years ago she tried to end her life.

The woman filed an appeal against the first hospitalization instruction and she was denied, as was the appeal on the second hospitalization instruction. Yesterday, after five days of hospitalization at Abarbanel Hospital, she was already being represented by Attorney General Tamar Nevo, a legal assistant in the Justice Department, who appealed her decision to Tel Aviv District Court. The district court found that the woman had simply fallen asleep in the same Morning, after spending the night, she was awake because she felt bad and did not answer the phone.

Photo: Gideon Markowitz

It also emerged that her brother thought the friend had contacted him when he told him she did not answer the phone, but then it became clear that he was in the middle of driving his car and therefore sounded stressed. "I wanted sick leave, my body hurt and I needed to rest. I was awake at night, I slept during the day and when they arrived I was at the peak of sleep. I can't wake me up when I sleep, I sleep tight," the woman said in court.

Ultimately, the district court judge, Zion Kafah, who ordered her release, ruled that this was a case of a "broken phone" and confusion that led to hospitalization, and it was appropriate for someone to ascertain the facts, and in particular, to find out the facts before forcing a person. "The circumstances of this case demonstrate most of all the need to create a hospital role that will properly examine the factual infrastructure in the first 24 hours of hospitalization," Judge Kafah wrote in his decision.

According to Attorney Daniel Raz, a national supervisor in the field of forced hospitalization in the Justice Department: "This case clearly sharpens the need for a factual and accurate examination of the case or else we will deprive people unnecessarily and the hand will be too easy for a person in a closed ward."