Haredim Still Try To Block Hospital Construction

Even though experts have again shown the bones found at the hospital's construction site are not remains of Jews, haredim continue to obstruct construction and endanger lives.

Yahadut HaTorah Remains Firm Regarding Kevarim in Ashkelon
Yechiel Spira • Yeshiva World

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman met on Tuesday with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is what is described as a 40-minute meeting “down to business” meeting.

The deputy minister informed the prime minister that his party is opposed to any change in the government’s position regarding the decision for a change of venue for the new fortified emergency room of Ashkelon’s Barzilai Hospital.

While Litzman has signaled the matter is a serious one, there is no indication that he indicated a change in the prime minister’s decision regarding the kevarim will trigger a coalition crisis. Party colleagues have indicated that if the prime minister adopts a change in the cabinet decision, they will convene to discuss possible responses, but only if and when such a move is relevant.

It is appearing increasingly likely that the prime minister is going to shift towards accepting the opinion of his bureau chief, in line with most of the medical community, that the new fortified building should be constructed at the original site, basing their decision on the ruling of Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar Shlita and Israel Antiquities Authority experts who state the bones are not those of Jews.

Haredim Choose Death Over Life: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

Comments

[who knows]

Rabbi Amar shita is pumping up anti-semitism around the world by going around and making the argument for moving the graves based on the fact the the graves are not Jewish. Instead of making an argument that regardless whether or not these graves are Jewish we have to move them to save lives.

Amar has never failed to make a morally questionable move.

[R]

Why can't they just move them?
Also can people get voted out of government in israel? It seems this health minister needs to be out.

[Reuven]

@R
No, there is no impeachment process in the Knesset.