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Health Ministry says 90% of ritual baths don’t meet water quality standards
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Illustrative: A luxury mikveh (ritual bath) for women, in the Israeli settlement of Alon Shvut on August 25, 2015. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)
The Health Ministry says that 90% of mikvehs, or ritual baths, in Israel do not meet the legal business standards set for such bodies of water.
A study of 121 ritual baths — which observant Jewish women immerse in monthly, and some observant Jewish men use regularly — found that 44% of them had too much chlorine in the water while 20% did not have enough chlorine, according to regulatory standards.
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