JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Chareidi and right-wing MK’s reacted angrily to the Israeli Supreme Court ruling Thursday stating that hospitals are not authorized to prevent Chametz from entering their premises on Pesach. UTJ officials said that they would support the override clause which would give the Knesset authority to overrule the Supreme Court on matters referring to political and social issues.
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“I suggest that there should be primaries for Supreme Court judges and it should be ruled that any matter concerning the Knesset’s legislation should first pass through the Knesset. The judges are extremely impertinent,” UTJ MK Moshe Gafni said. “What we the legislators accomplish in countless committee sessions and four plenary readings, they cancel with one irrational decision and rule based on their point of view whatever they feel like. If we want democratic and Jewish life we must put a stop to this.”
MK Michael Malkieli (Shas) added that “the court once again shows its total seclusion from the people. The decision causes severe harm to the Israeli public. In most polls over the past few years, the results were that most people are careful not to eat Chametz.”
MK Yaakov Asher (UTJ) claimed that “with a slippery slope remorselessly eroding Jewish values, it is incumbent on public servants to protest and use all legal tools to maintain the Jewish complexion of the country.”
MK Uri Maklev said that “the court with its decision harms and hinders patients who do not eat Chametz on Pesach like most Israeli citizens. The court’s judges did not show respect for the hospital as a public place which must be considerate of all sectors. Recently the court in a number of controversial rulings is leading to an explosion between different sectors of the people and doing everything to replace the government by force.”
MK Yisrael Eichler (UTJ) lashed out at the court, stating that “we all know the dictatorial methods of the Supreme Court. They don’t even hide their anti-Jewish and anti-democratic tyranny. Putin is more of a democrat that the Supreme Court, which tries to nullify the authority of the Knesset and demonstrates its contempt towards public servants who represent the Israeli public. We can close the Knesset, since the court has adopted the anthem of rebels, stating that “we don’t care about the laws of the Knesset.”
Eichler added that “there is no consideration of the Jewish, democratic position of the majority of the people. The Israeli parliament ruled to prohibit Chametz in public places since this is the view of the majority of citizens. The court mocks the Jewish faith and the view of the people and violently tramples the law. For the same reason the court rejected the extension of the professionally appointed state attorney even though he was legitimately appointed by the Justice Minister. The court is against the legislative arm and executive arms of government, against everyone.”
Attorney Aviad Hakohen representing the Chief Rabbinate in court condemned the ruling and said that the decision would lead to “the last place in Israel where people could reside together- patients, staff, visitors, Jews, Arabs, Chareidim and secular people – becoming a focus of contention. The ruling will have wide ramifications for all public Kashrut in the state of Israel far beyond the question of Chametz in hospitals on Pesach.”
Liberal MK’s celebrated the decision. MK Tamar Zandberg (Meretz) welcomed the decision, stating that “the court has done justice with the religious coercion and stopped the disgraceful behavior in hospitals. There is no place for Chametz police in hospitals or in any other place. The next step is to nullify the Chametz law.”
The Secular Forum which submitted the petition to the court said that “the court accepted all of our claims as presented to it by attorney Yair Nehorai. This is a festive day for Israeli democracy and specifically for the secular public in Israel. The court rulled that the policy which was observed until now harmed the right to dignity and privacy and freedom of religion. Moreover the court ruled that the health ministry and Chief Rabbinate acted without authority when they prevented the entry of food to hospitals and ordered guards to supervise the entry of food to the hospitals.”
This just goes to prove that only a brainwashed idiot would make an aliyah. Secular Israel is such an evil corrupt country that is controlled by evil wicked judges, the likes of which we haven’t seen since Sedom in Avraham Avinu’s time! Pheh. It’s moments like these, that gets the world to look at Israel with disgust. Such a low degenerate nation. Yes, and then the goyim hate us.
Israel is goless also
Stupid liberal Israeli s they have iron dome but destroy the country from within
We aren’t supposed to have a Jewish State anyway. I don’t understand these “Haredim” trying to force religion through government, but on the other hand the hospitals should be privatized and the private Haredi hospitals should be given the right to have religious freedom and not allow chometz into their private property. This is the problem with big government in Israel where the government owns everything like a communist country. Same thing with the Egged busses. If the Haredim could have private busses like we do in America, we could have the mechitzos between men and women, as the free market in those neighborhoods would allow and make profitable, but the government has to butt in and take over everything. Israel needs separation of synagogue and state, but it doesn’t need forced secularism like France or Turkey used to have – a good balance has to be found (and it should also stop calling itself a “Jewish State”) – like the American model. Free market is good both for economics and for religion.
Yes, we are in Golus regardless of where we are.
But Yishuv Eretz Yisrael is a special mitzvah. Regardless of what’s happening there.
You are using a story of what happened to slander a very holy land.
The more frumme that live there the more mitzvahs are being performed on the very holy land.
‘Goless’ a new word – please enroll in a Course for Ilitterate Jews
Sodom country.
At least with corona the Tel Aviv gay parade will be cancelled. If they don’t cancel the Jerusalem parade then all those who have tested positive should go demonstrate and they will have to cancel this sodom activity.
To Aliyah, you soon to be airport runners.
Plenty of secularists hate the Supreme Court. Doesn’t mean anything.
Make Aliyah you bigshots…Then vote and become the majority.
Hey…. Hope when you come running yy’all still have a penny in the bank.
You know what I mean??
The whole lot of you shmegegies along with the English and Belgium mob will soon daven mincha in ElAl spaces near the toilets …. lololol
Big shots… Your days here are numbered .
Askonimlach $$$$..
No more power here in galus. Police ticketing chareidim like crazy in Willy today.
Your Dem luver boys did you in but good.
M’get yetzt loifen tzee tzitoineeee land aber schnell. M’heibt oon tzee shtippen de yiddlech….
I’m surprised that the Supreme Court of Israel, in addiction to permitting chometz during Pesach, didn’t also permit visitors or staff to bring in chazzer products, such as ham, pork, and bacon? I’ll bet that if someone brought a lawsuit to the Israeli Supreme Court demanding to eat those products in the hospitals, the court would agree with them!
What you guys missed from the Israeli Supreme Court right before the corona hit. They ruled that gays can adopt babies. Guess what. Corona arrived. They were going to bring in babies from China and Europe but suddenly the airports closed.