The boycott was successful: MDA folded and will return 'Ab' and 'Em' to the forms"

November 16, 2021   

MDA will stop using the medical questionnaire forms with the definitions "Parent 1" and "Parent 2" and will return the definitions "Father's name" and "Mother's name.". It's unimaginable: injury, hunger, and thirst • So how should mice be caught? Employers can receive a financial incentive of up to NIS 22,250. How? Enter Everyone adopts one vaccinated person: Have you already convinced a friend, neighbor, or relative? This was after the organized boycott, following which mass blood donations were canceled in religious Zionist and Haredi yeshivahs, along with Haredi citizens. According to a report in Haaretz, the MDA will allow those who wish to do so to manually change the gender division between father and mother, but the starting point on the forms will be the definition of "father" and "mother." "We want everyone to donate," said MDA officials. "Just as we consider the needs of one population, we also consider the needs of another population - we need everyone and it is important for us to remove all existing barriers so that no one is prevented from donating blood." The boycott began three weeks ago, when hundreds of yeshiva students – as well as many Haredim – refused to donate blood, due to a change in the MDA medical questionnaire forms, when instead of 'father’s name" and "mother’s name" "Parent 1" and "Parent 2" began to appear, as an act of support for the LGBT community. This is a move that was made in several government offices and the IDF even earlier, and is defined as controversial because it legitimizes the values ​​of the LGBT community. As reported at the time, several yeshivahs, including Beit El, Har HaMor, Mitzpe Ramon, Ramat Gan and others, announced that they would stop donating blood to MDA mobile units that come to them every three months. Sources at the yeshivahs told Israel Hayom at the time: "Yeshivahs have regular blood donations. This is a procedure that is done regularly, once or twice a month in the yeshivah, and everyone comes to donate – 300-400 people a day. During the coronavirus, special blood donations were also made." According to them, everything went wrong: "People came to do a good deed and discovered right in front of their faces that they were being put on an agenda for blood tests. While donating, they discovered the change in the forms at one of the meetings, and approached a well-known rabbi with a question. He said that anyone who wanted to donate would not have to, provided they sent a letter of protest explaining why.” Yitzhak, an ultra-Orthodox who is meticulous about blood donations, told 10 Haredim at the time: “This is crazy. I donate heavily at least twice a year. For many years. There is no way I will donate in this situation, and I told them too.” Dvir Amar, a writer for Besheva, who first published the protest, tweeted this evening about the decision: ”I am happy that what started in the meetings of the national religious public and was published here on Twitter for the first time, has trickled down to the highest echelons.”.