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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Steven Scheer

Israeli businesses decry calls to revise anti-discrimination law

Calls by far-right members of Israel's incoming government to revise anti-discrimination laws have triggered criticism from some of the country's leading businesses and prompted them to announce new policies of their own to combat discrimination.

On Sunday, a member of the far-right Religious Zionism party - one of the parties in the new coalition - told public radio that hotels and doctors should be allowed to refuse services to people on religious grounds, provided others are available.

Leading hospitals and healthcare providers, apparently in response to that suggestion, then put out a video declaring: "We treat everyone."

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