Israel to open Muslim prayer rooms largest hospitals
Jerusalem: six large hospitals Israel opens Muslim prayer rooms in the next 18 months, the Ministry of Health informed the High Court of justice in response to a petition on the issue. Ministry of Health Director General Roni Gamzu assured the court that in the next year and a half, Ichilov (Tel Aviv), Sheba (Tel Hashomer), Beilinson (Petah Tikva), Hadassah-Ein Karem (Jerusalem), Rambam (Haifa ) and Soroka (Be'er Sheva) hospitals will all Muslim prayer rooms. Rambam and Soroka already have such zones, he said. The petition, which was heard by Justice Neal Hendel, was filed by Salim Nasser, an Israeli Muslim who had visited a relative hospitalized at Ichilov Hospital and found that there was no place of worship dedicated to the Muslims. Nasser's lawyer, Yehuda Ressler, "The applicant and his family came from afar and had to say their prayers on the lawn of the hospital, he did not consider it appropriate." Nasser said he felt "embarrassed and discrimination."
the subject of Muslim prayer areas in hospitals was at the center of conflict in the summer of 2011 between the Deputy Minister of Health Yaakov Litzman and the director of the Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya, Dr. Massad Barhoum , the first Arab head of a government hospital in Israel
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