A series of articles published in the main edition of Channel 2 news and on the Mako website regarding the High Court of Justice's petition regarding an internal procedure of the Ministry of Defense's Rehabilitation Division that denies the rights of IDF disabled veterans.
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Haim Rivlin: Employees of the Ministry of Defense's Rehabilitation Division have experienced violence from the past
Yonit Levy: Rehabilitation workers at the Ministry of Defense have experienced cases of violence during their work in the past. But trying to prevent more cases may go a few steps too far. An internal procedure of the division stipulates that an IDF disabled person who keeps a voice on an employee will not be allowed to come to the scene for five months. And in extreme cases will even be denied his pension. The procedure infuriates many disabled people who are now appealing to the High Court in an attempt to cancel it, the story is brought tonight by Haim Rivlin. Haim Rivlin: In recent years, there has been an increase in cases of violence
Towards public employees, doctors, social workers and so on. In the background, the Ministry of Defense issued this document. A procedure for dealing with violence against employees of the Rehabilitation Division who treat tens of thousands of IDF disabled people is required, but the procedure also imposes severe sanctions even in cases where an IDF disabled person uses blunt speech, even raising his voice.
A shout on the phone will be considered a case of violence that will confirm the removal of a disabled person from the wing's facilities for a period of between one and three months. Adv. Doron Afik - Advocate for an IDF disabled person who received a restraining order: We have a clerk who is not a judge but a clerk who makes a decision to remove a person who also has financial significance, very very great sometimes even the meaning of life a person needs an urgent medical committee is not Will get it,
Haim Rivlin: This is how the procedure states, benefits provided at the clinic or requiring summons to various committees will not be given during this period and those who are in the process of being placed at work will consider it as if their job application has been terminated. Nevertheless, we will also remind you in the event that an IDF invalid raised his voice or spoke blatantly. Adv. Idan Kalman - Director of the Legal Division of the IDF Disabled People's Organization: We all condemn acts of violence, both verbal and physical. The problem is that I have been working for an IDF disabled organization for over a decade. I have come across quite a few cases in which, in my opinion, IDF invalids were expelled for no injustice. There are many other things that can be done before IDF disabled people, especially people who are particularly traumatized, who come to receive treatment due to distress.
Haim Rivlin: This is exactly what happened to R., a combat soldier who was seriously wounded
During training and the other son suffers from battle shock. He said that in a meeting with the department's doctors, offensive remarks were directed at him in order to push him into a corner.
R. - Disabled IDF: At a certain point, after I ran into a wall and was pushed into a corner, I told him that he was behaving like a son of a bitch ... Haim Rivlin: Following the curse, R. received this letter, "In the face of
The severity of your remarks It was decided to keep you away from the wing facilities for five months' longer than the procedure allows by the way and without hearing R.'s version at all.
R. - IDF disabled person: It has become a tool to take revenge on IDF disabled people who actually came without allowing me to say his words and decided his fate. Haim Rivlin: This procedure was hidden from IDF disabled people until Rish Atar
To the court to accept it, tomorrow he will file a petition to the High Court demanding that it be annulled on the grounds that the power of removal and denial of benefits is vested in a judge and not an official.
Yonit Levy: This is the response of the Ministry of Defense. At the same time, the division condemns and does not intend to thicken the agenda for acts of violence against its employees. The procedure established following exceptional violent incidents is intended to ensure the safety and security of workers and allow them to continue to provide service without fear for their safety.
Published in Afik News 152 14.05.2014