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NEWS
New Amendment Requires Bathing Facilities to Provide
Separate Hours
by Eliezer Rauchberger
The Knesset plenum unanimously passed an amendment requiring
all therapeutic bathing facilities that receive state funding
in any form to arrange men-only and women-only hours.
Until now, only health spas directly funded by the state,
based on the Budget Foundations Law and recognized as
officially funded bodies, had to establish hours for separate
bathing. Similar facilities that received funding assistance
from local authorities or other sources were not included in
the law.
MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni, who initiated the amendment, claimed
that the existing law discriminated against religious
citizens in need of these places for medicinal purposes.
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