The head of the public health services, Dr. Sharon Elrai-Price, responded to a discussion in the Constitution Committee this week, during which a curse was heard from one of the participants while she was speaking. News Friday's Studio 12.
During the panel, which dealt with the expansion of vaccines for those aged 50 and over, a move that Dr. Elrai-Price opposes at this stage, she also referred to a post published by a doctor at Shaare Zedek Hospital against vaccine opponents, which was published in Israel Today and caused a stir. Opponents of vaccines, and wrote: "Why should we treat those who have not treated themselves?"
"This is a poignant post," Dr. Elrai-Price said of the doctor. "The medical staff will do anything to help everyone.
These are people who work around the clock, not only in hospitals but also in health funds and health bureaus. "
A curse was heard during the remarks of Dr. Sharon Elrai Price in the Constitution Committee // Photo: Knesset Channel
During the broadcast, the head of the public health services emphasized that despite the rumors, she did not intend to resign, and shared: "I am a public servant and receive threats. I have a distress button. This is not normal in a democracy. "Why do people who gather near my house call me a 'child killer' - it's hard. I think the discourse has gone down in an abusive, violent and degrading way."
It will be recalled that during the debate in the Knesset, the curse "Bat Z ** E" was said twice while Dr. Elrai-Price was speaking. Gilad Karib, to silence the participants in the committee through the zoom software. Afterwards, MK Karib contacted the Knesset officer and the Knesset director general and asked for an investigation to locate the person who said the curse. .
After that meeting, the husband of the head of public health services, Dr. Meir Price, posted a tweet on Twitter in which he came out against the Knesset and the committee chairman. "Zero cowardly cursed my late wife and mother-in-law," wrote Dr. Price. I would like to address the head of the committee, who did not find it appropriate to stop the hearing, find the speaker, remove him from the hearing and protect a public servant. A certificate of poverty and shame for the Knesset, the Constitution Committee and the Labor Party. "
