Back in April the Supreme Court decided that hospitals do not have the authority to stop people from bringing chametz in during the Pesach holiday, and the security guards do not have the right or authority to search people's bags for chametz.
The decision was appealed by the Chief Rabbinate. Today the Supreme Court rejected the appeal and also agreed to the decision that preventing chametz form being brought in and using the security guards to search visitors for chametz is a breach in the freedom of religion for patients and their privacy.
According to Ynet, this ends the case in the court system and there can be no more appeals. If anyone wants to change this ruling, it will have to be done by legislation in the Knesset.
The regular players are all either celebrating or attacking the decision. The secular groups are celebrating and the Haredi MKs are blasting the court for overreaching, for being against the Torah, etc.
Personally I still fail to see what the big deal is. Why should it disturb me if an Arab patient has his family come and they bring pita in to the hospital to eat? It isn't getting into my food. If the hospital is worried about dishes that they might put their pita on, the hospitals can use disposables for the week of Pesach.
To me this doesn't seem to be a big deal either way. It seemed clear what the court was going to decide, considering what they already had decided on the matter. If the players opposed to allowing chametz in were going to go for all or nothing and just bang theirs heads against a wall instead of looking for a practical solution, some sort of compromise, of maybe designated areas for chametz or some other compromise, it is no surprise that they end up with nothing.
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