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Arab Israeli buys state’s chametz for $150 billion

At the instruction of Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, the chief rabbis of Israel sold all of the chametz (leavened foods) owned by the state to an Arab Israeli businessman in accordance with the laws of...
Baking shmurah matzah in Jerusalem for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover, April 11, 2022. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.

New law allows Israeli hospitals to ban chametz during Passover

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The Knesset plenum on Tuesday passed into law a bill to allow hospitals to ban chametz, or leavened foods, during the weeklong Passover holiday that begins on the evening of April 5. Forty-eight Knesset members voted...