“A gigantic fraction of the public is strict with no longer utilizing water that comes from the Kinneret during Passover… as is it uncovered and might maybe believe hametz,” MK Moshe Gafni stated.
SAMARIA REGIONAL COUNCIL head Yossi Dagan (left), Infrastructure Minister Yuval Steinitz (center) and Civil Administration officer Benny Elbaz inaugurate a 13-km. water pipeline in Samaria on Monday.
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Israel’s Water Authority will present the nation with underground water between Wednesday and till after Passover in expose to steer clear of residue of hametz (leavened food, which is no longer kosher for the Passover vacation) in the nation’s water supply, Maariv, The Jerusalem Post‘s sister newsletter, reported Sunday.
The resolution used to be made following a quiz of made by MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ).
“A gigantic fraction of the public is strict with no longer utilizing water that comes from the Kinneret during Passover… as is it uncovered and might maybe believe hametz,” Gafni stated.
“The proposed resolution is to employ water that comes from drilling underground,” he added.
The trouble of hametz and attempts to ban hametz products in public areas during Passover have come up up to now.
Final April, the Excessive Court of Justice ruled that hospitals can no longer ban patients and visitors from bringing in food products which might maybe be no longer kosher for Passover during the vacation.
In January, the Excessive Court denied a quiz of by the Chief Rabbinate to aid every other hearing with an expanded panel of justices on the trouble.
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Gafni stated on the time that his birthday celebration would inquire that the Excessive Court reverse the resolution and that UTJ would pass override guidelines in any new coalition it might maybe maybe be half of.
The trouble has reached the IDF as successfully.
Following the Excessive Court’s resolution in January, the Secular Forum and the Hiddush Association for Non secular Freedom and Equality appealed to IDF Chief of Group Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi, soliciting for that the IDF amend its orders as to allow hametz into IDF bases during Passover.
In a letter addressed to Kohavi, the organizations argued that “it is obvious that stopping the ingesting of food in IDF camps, whether kosher for Passover or no longer – is a violation of the liberty of resolution, freedom of action and freedom of religion of non-observant Jews.”
Halacha strictly prohibits the consumption of hametz for the seven days (eight outside of Israel) of Passover, a restriction that many Jews adhere to, including those no longer strictly observant.
Jeremy Sharon and Gadi Zaig contributed to this file.
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Water Authority to supply Israel with underground water during Passover
