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Religious freedom group files High Court petition against ‘hametz law’ in hospitals

4 April 2023, 2:16 pm 3 Edit
Bread for sale, some of which is subsidized by the government, at a Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem on July 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Bread for sale, some of which is subsidized by the government, at a Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem on July 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

An organization dedicated to religious freedom and pluralism petitions the High Court against a new law allowing hospitals to ban leavened products during Passover, days after a hospital guard confiscated cookies that were not kosher for Passover from a pregnant woman.

The petition by the Israel Hofshit–Be Free Israel organization calls for the court to immediately intervene and stop the potential searches at entrances to hospitals, and prevent the possibility that patients and visitors may be denied entry to medical centers, Channel 12 news reports.

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