Chametz in hospitals on Passover: News 12 political commentator Amit Segal suggests today (Sunday) that we take seriously the threats made by coalition chairwoman Idit Silman against Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz.
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Segal wrote on his Telegram account: "I suggest taking this change in direction seriously. Issues of religion and state are the explosive material of this coalition, and if the chairman of the coalition that is supposed to maintain it signals a red line, it is worth continuing to follow." Shas chairman Aryeh Deri was not impressed by the threats: "Beware of the hypocrites. Those who established the most anti-Jewish government, working with the voices of the national camp, which is working to introduce leaven on Passover in hospitals, are trying to soothe their consciences with empty lip service. "They are drowning and Meretz is in their hands." Media figure Yinon Magal tweeted: "Idit Silman is threatening the coalition, it's like Abu Mazen is strongly condemning." Then he added sarcastically: "If Silman had added an explicit statement and signed a paper to the threat live on Channel 14, I would have believed it." Yaki Adamker, a Knesset and ultra-Orthodox correspondent in Walla, wrote: "I pledge to eat a whole year of matzah if Idit Silman carries out the threat against Nitzan Horwitz. Do me a favor." Following Silman's words, MK Moshe Arbel of Shas turned to MK Nir Orbach, chairman of the Knesset committee, and asked to convene the Knesset committee for a discussion: "In light of the comments of the coalition chairman MK Silman regarding the need to ensure that leaven is not brought into hospitals on Passover, I ask that the Knesset committee urgently convene to discuss legal solutions to prevent harm to the kosher status of hospitals on Passover," said Arbel. MK Uriel Bosso of Shas: ""
After Idit's statement Silman"Either Hurwitz is no longer the Minister of Health. Or there is no chametz in the hospitals. Or there is no government. Or there is no fear.".
As reported earlier today, the coalition chairwoman told the Knesset Health Committee that "on her watch" leaven would not be allowed into hospitals on Passover. She threatened that if Minister Horwitz continues his insistence on ordering hospitals to allow leaven on Passover - "We and our fingers cannot allow such a person to continue to be minister, if he comes and continues to make these statements." According to her, "I owe him some kind of thanks because he dropped the coin for me. Sometimes we get lost in all the hard work, and the people of Israel have flags, and flags that for generations people have killed themselves for – and we, certainly in the current government, will not be a part of bringing them down, and we must respect the public and I must say from here that we will not be able to take part in a place where this is the statement." Silman added: "I hope that the Minister of Health – and I expect him to respect the public and respect the coalition in which he is in and the places where we also have a veto on issues of religion and state – will take into account the feelings of the traditional and religious public in Israel. "I call on the Minister from here to issue a well-organized directive for the hospitals, which know how to conduct themselves in this manner and have conducted themselves this way for years without directives, because here there is some kind of crossing of a red line, and I am announcing here from the podium of the Health Committee that on my watch this will not happen and this is in my mind. We will not be able to take part in such a reality.".
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