The next hearing is set for March 16 with an expanded bench of seven judges.
The court ruling came in response to petitions against the law by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Physicians for Human Rights–Israel. Opposition lawmakers, the Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians, and others have also expressed opposition to the legislation, on privacy grounds.
An Israeli receives a COVID-19 vaccine shot at a Leumit vaccination center in Tel Aviv, March 8, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Also Tuesday, a labor court in Tel Aviv allowed a town in central Israel to furlough an assistant at a special education school who has refused to be vaccinated.
Hadassah hospital said to furlough 80 workers who haven t taken COVID shots
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Eighty Hadassah hospital workers furloughed for refusing COVID vaccine
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Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital team members wearing safety gear as they work in a coronavirus ward, on February 01, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center on Tuesday decreed that unvaccinated medical staff can no longer treat patients.
The hospital told workers that as of Sunday, doctors and nurses who haven’t taken COVID-19 shots or acquired some level of immunity by recovering from the virus will find themselves resigned to administrative roles or any other position that the hospital sees fit.
“We can turn nurses and doctors into administrators or put them in any other jobs we find around the hospital,” a Hadassah spokeswoman told The Times of Israel, adding that they will continue to be paid their regular salaries.