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25th Knesset · outgoing

Patient's Rights Law (Amendment – Preventing Medical Treatment for Terrorists in the Public Health System) Bill

Translated from Hebrew: הצעת חוק זכויות החולה (תיקון - מניעת טיפול רפואי למחבלים במערכת הבריאות הציבורית)

TL;DRThe bill restricts the right to medical treatment in the public health system for people charged with or convicted of terrorism offenses and unlawful combatants.

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What does the bill do?

The bill changes the Patient's Rights Law (1996) so that the law's provisions on the equal right to medical treatment will not apply to: unlawful combatants as defined in the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law, people in detention on a charge of a terrorism offense, and people convicted of a terrorism offense. The bill states that the restriction includes cases that are not life-saving or in which there are waiting lists, such as expensive MRI and CT scans.

Rejected at preliminary readingFirst plenum vote: May 14, 2025

The votes on this bill

Rejected16 for · 50 against · 0 abstained · 54 did not vote
Source: the Knesset's vote record ↗

Coalition 68 seats

LikudAgainst 21 · Absent 11
ShasAgainst 9 · Absent 2
United Torah JudaismAgainst 6 · Absent 1
Otzma YehuditAgainst 2 · Absent 4
New Hope – The United RightAgainst 1 · Absent 3
NoamFor 1

Left the coalition 8 seats

Opposition 44 seats

Yesh AtidFor 6 · Absent 18
Ra'amAgainst 1 · Absent 4
Hadash–Ta'alAgainst 1 · Absent 4
LaborAgainst 2 · Absent 2

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