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The High Court will hear a petition to make the MDA website accessible to Arabic speakers: "It concerns the matter of life and death" - Walla! news

2021-01-08T18:43:39.039Z


The Legal Center for the Rights of the Arab Minority has petitioned the Minister of Health and MDA, claiming that despite the stipulation in the Nationality Law, Arabic is also an official language in Israel. Will act equally "


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The High Court will hear a petition to make the MDA website accessible to Arabic speakers: "It concerns the matter of life and death"

The Legal Center for the Rights of the Arab Minority has petitioned the Minister of Health and MDA, claiming that despite the stipulation in the Nationality Law, Arabic is also an official language in Israel. Will act equally "

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A petition was filed in the Supreme Court yesterday (Thursday) against Health Minister Yuli Edelstein and the Magen David Adom Association for not making the MDA website accessible to Arabic speakers.



"It is not accessible equally to the entire population, especially since Arabic is the mother tongue of Arab citizens. The population may lead to irreversible consequences and injuries concerning matters of life and death, "the petition filed by Adalah, the legal center for the Arab minority rights in Israel,



claims that despite the Basic Law: Israel - the nation state of the Jewish people (the Nationality Law), It is the language of the state, "the mandatory law that still prevails today, determines the status of the Arabic language as an official language.

"This law, according to Supreme Court rulings, obliges the authorities to make all their services accessible in Arabic."

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"The mother tongue of the Arab citizens who make up one-fifth of the total population."

Paramedic at MDA hotline (Photo: MDA)

Attorneys Sausan Zohar and Aya Haj Odeh are requesting an urgent hearing on the petition, especially in light of the corona epidemic and the need to make information available to the Arabic-speaking public, such as the one available in Hebrew. "And when to get out of isolation, information for parents of children infected in Corona and more.



They claim that "the official MDA website, which is one of the main sources for disseminating information for the population in the country, including regarding ways to contact health services or vital information to deal with the corona virus, does not exist in Arabic at all." , Except for only two basic explanatory leaflets that were translated in March 2020 and have not been updated since and they concern the way of washing hands and maintaining social distance. According to Adalah, repeated inquiries to MDA on the subject, since October, have not been answered.

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This is not the first time during the corona crisis that deficiencies have been found in making information accessible regarding dealing with the epidemic to the Arab public.

In March 2020, the Adalah Center on behalf of MK Sami Abu Shehadeh (joint list) contacted the Ministry of Health because it did not publish all the updates and guidelines for the public in the Arabic language. Following this request, the Ministry of Health worked to correct the deficiencies .



lawyers Zohar and Hajj said that "would be expected that after nearly a year of dealing with the epidemic does not discriminate between people, Magen David Adom, which deals with life-saving act equitably in providing services to all residents including services offered on their official website.

The fact that the information is not accessible in Arabic and is indeed accessible in English even though it is not an official language in the State of Israel, means conveying a message to an entire group of citizens that they are inferior and transparent due to their national affiliation.

It is unfortunate that even on such a basic issue we are forced to go to court to obtain essential service, even when it comes to health and human life. "



In Judge Yosef Elron's decision, the three judges will hear the petition. A date has not yet been set.

The Ministry of Health said in response that the petition has not yet been received, and when it is received, it will be answered as usual.

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