Jerusalem Post reports that yesterday Israel's High Court of Justice, in a 2-1 decision, invalidated the Chief Rabbinate's ban on patients and visitors bringing food that is not kosher for Passover (
chametz) into patients' hospital rooms. It also invalidated the order to search those entering hospitals during Passover for
chametz. According to the paper's report:
In a majority ruling, judges Uzi Vogelman and Ofer Grosskopf wrote that the ban harms the fundamental rights for the autonomy of the individual and freedom of religion.
They wrote that it also harms the dignity of patients and their right to self-determination and the exercise of their own choices and preferences.
