Supreme Court: No bread for Muslim inmates over Passover

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal from an Arab prison inmate who asked to receive bread instead of matzah with his meals during the upcoming Passover holiday.

Mudabbah Mahmoud Rayik, who is serving time for a criminal offense, is jailed in a prison that houses both Arab and Jewish inmates.

His appeal to the Supreme Court, after his case was heard in the district court, claims that he is being forced to eat matzah despite the fact that he is Muslim.

The Israel Prison Service claimed that facilities with mixed populations are kosher, and that his request cannot be ranked above that of Jewish inmates who wish to follow the rules of their faith, which forbids the consumption of leavened beard over the holiday, which begins at sunset on Monday.

The prison service also claimed that Passover lasts only eight days, and that it would be imprudent to create tension between the inmates over such a short period of time.

Justice Elyakim Rubinstein said in his ruling that no one disagrees about the importance of bread, but that the state is only obligated to provide inmates with food, not a specific type of food and that there is no harm in substituting one food for another for a matter of days.

"Therefore, there is no legal offense in not providing bread during Passover to wings in which non-Jews reside with Jews in a Jewish and democratic state, especially when a suitable food is being provided," Rubinstein said.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1158706.html

He... he... israeli rabbis warn about 7-ton stockpile of fake 'Passover Bread'
Why not give it to the Palestinian Prisoners?

UN Human Rights Council passes 3 resolutions condemning Israel
(Resolution after Resolution, after Resolution... So what? This is like watching live a murderer killing women, children etc... and saying to yourself: "Oh my, that guy is bad" and going about your business until the next time you meet him again killing in front your very eyes half a dozen individuals and you continue to say- repeat after after me- "Oh my, that guy is mad..." ad vomitum...) The only thing that the UN ever did was vote for the antisemitic Khazar tribes to "exist" and develop like a cancer in the heart of Muslim lands, and giving it the power to plunge the whole world into global war... The U.N.O. was brought into being and set up in New York, without prior consultation. Once 'legal' by a tiny majority with an openly bought couple of votes, the Organization was then basically irrelevant since it would endanger the Zionist programme by voting against its illegal expansion.