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Lennox Kalifungwa

Israeli Health Minister Files Injunction Against Medical Association’s 24-Hour Strike

A picture shows the maternity center at the Sheba Medical Centre in Israel's Ramat Gan city on July 15, 2023. The IMA, which represents 97% of the country’s doctors, announced the strike after the Knesset voted into law an amendment to Basic Law: The Judiciary that limits the Supreme Court’s use of the so-called reasonableness standard.AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES.

Israeli Health Minister Moshe Arbel has filed an injunction against a 24-hour strike by the Israeli Medical Association, claiming that it could harm patients and does not meet the criteria for protest strikes. A labor court received the appeal on Tuesday.

Arbel and Health Ministry Director-General Moshe Bar Siman Tov held a meeting on Monday night with Deputy Attorney General Avital Sompolinsky and representatives from the State Attorney General’s Office regarding the strike.

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