Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz surprised the plenum today (Wednesday) when he said he was working to promote the opening of buffets in hospitals for the entire week - including Saturdays.
His remarks provoked tensions within the coalition and clashed head-on with the ultra-Orthodox parties.
Horowitz said in the Knesset plenum: "I want to open buffets in hospitals on Saturdays as well. They should be open seven days a week. I also work to lower prices and be open seven days a week, including on Saturdays, because then there are many visitors who come to visit patients and do not. You can even buy something to drink. "
MK Asher, who was the one who asked the minister about buffet prices, attacked: "The question was about the high costs of buffets, but the health minister ran to 'take care' on Saturday.
This is the true face of the Bennett government, to the glory of the State of Israel. "
The chairman of the right-wing faction, a member of the coalition, MK Nir Orbach, responded to the action of his coalition partner, the Minister of Health, and tweeted: "Want - will not happen."
The chairman of Torah Judaism, MK Moshe Gafni, said in response to Horowitz: "I very much hope that the ministers and religious MKs in the coalition will not let this happen, and will not allow Nitzan Horowitz to change the character of the Jewish state and cause the desecration of Shabbat without supervision. A soul in the matter. "
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MK Asher, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Meanwhile, another confrontation was recorded in the plenum against the background of religion and state.
Agriculture Minister Oded Forer claimed that the shortage of milk was due to the cessation of dairy work on Saturday along with the small number of working days in September.
The minister proposed to operate at similar times, a non-kosher production line that also works on Saturdays and holidays.
Forer explained the reasons for the lack of an answer to a query from MK Uri Maklev of Torah Judaism.
Minister of Agriculture Oded Forer, Photo: Reuven Castro
MK Maklev attacked the minister in response to the proposal: "These are solutions of an atheist party that has removed every Jewish symbol from itself."
