Legislation gives flexibility to hospital administrators to set kosher-for-Passover rules; 2020 High Court order blocked hospital guards from checking visitors’ bags for hametz
TOI reports that a bill enabling public hospital administrators to ban leavened goods, or hametz, for the upcoming Passover holiday cleared its first reading in the Knesset late Sunday, passing in a 51-46 vote during a special session organized to push the legislation through despite the upcoming Purim holiday.
Backed by ultra-Orthodox MKs the bill grants hospital administrators flexibility to determine “the special arrangements needed to ensure the patients hospitalized there can keep kosher for Passover.”
“Among other things, this includes — once other alternatives have been considered — establishing protocols banning or limiting the entrance of hametz,” or leavened food, “into the hospital building, in full or part, during the Passover holiday,” the bill states.
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