On video: Hospital managers welcome the new hametz law (Knesset Channel)
The "Free Israel" movement petitioned the High Court today (Tuesday) against the sourdough law approved by the government, according to which a hospital can prohibit the introduction of sourdough food, ahead of Passover. According to them, the petition follows the case in which last Sunday at the Laniado Hospital in Netanya, they refused to admit a pregnant woman because she was holding in a package of waffles that are not kosher for Passover.
The request of the Laniado hospital, in which the guard at the entrance searched for chametz in the woman's bag, contradicts the chametz law, which does not grant any of the hospital employees enforcement powers or the possibility to search patients' files. The law's powers only allow the hospital to know about the manager's decision , and it is not possible to prevent citizens from consuming certain foods or prevent entry with them.
Also, on the hospital's website and on its Facebook page - we did not inform about the prohibition of bringing chametz into the hospital's premises. However, the hospital, which is declared to be managed according to the rules of Jewish Halacha, posted a sign at the entrance to its premises There it is written about the ban.
The boxes in which the patients were asked to leave the sour cream.
Laniado Hospital, Rishon (photo: official website, no)
The CEO of the "Free Israel Movement", Uri Kidar, claimed that "we must not accept a situation in which Laniado Hospital continues to blatantly ignore the law and harm its patients.
The hospital receives hundreds of millions of shekels from public funds per year, it is subject to the law even if its managers think otherwise, and we intend to make sure that both in Leniado and in any other hospital they do not prevent people who are already in an uncomfortable situation that brought them to the hospital in the first place from having to suffer an aggressive search of their bags and the confiscation of their food.
There will be no religious police in Israel, even if there are some confused people who think otherwise."
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