Chametz Law News Today

In ToI interview, Eli Cohen talks up Israel’s recent diplomatic achievements, defends Azerbaijan arms sales, and says he wants another year in office despite deal with Israel Katz

Political affairs: The new Knesset’s first session was dominated by the judicial overhaul controversy. What should we expect when it resumes its activity on April 30?

The appeal came despite the Knesset passing the "Hametz Law" which enables hospital directors to ban or limit the entry of hametz into the hospital building.

SOCIAL AFFAIRS: Why are hospitals being targeted with a new law banning Hametz over Passover? How will it affect staff, and is there a halachic basis for it?

Opposition leader MK Yair Lapid lambasted the legislation, accusing the coalition of having dismantled the Passover holiday.

Almost half of Israeli Jews oppose barring hametz from hospitals during Passover, though most don't eat any during the holiday, a new Israel Democracy Institute poll found.

Justice minister says nationwide rallies will be organized 'to show what the majority of the public wants,' and bills will pass after Passover, even as Netanyahu talks of consensus

The Legislation Is the Brainchild of Finance Committee Chairman MK Moshe Gafni, Whose ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism Party Has Moved to Reverse Many of the Reforms to Israel's Religious Status Quo Championed by the Previous Government

The issue of hametz in hospitals has come up every year in recent years, even serving as the official trigger for then Yamina MK Silman to quit the previous coalition.

Law does not allow searches of visitors' belongings; opposition leader Lapid warns legislation will only push more secular people to resist what they see as religious coercion