Hadassah Hospital has taken 80 workers on leave without pay because they avoided getting vaccinated

Hadassah Hospital has taken 80 workers on leave without pay, including doctors and nurses, because they avoided getting vaccinated against corona. Hadassah's management said that the workers had not received approval from the Exceptions Committee set up at the hospital, and that no alternative position had been found for them.
Hadassah's director, Prof. Zeev Rothstein, has adopted a zero-tolerance policy toward employees who choose not to be vaccinated since the vaccination campaign began. In early January he announced that unvaccinated workers would not be able to come to work on quarantine days, and that these days would be deducted from their quota of days off. "Due to the suspicion of the spread of the British mutation and the increase in the number of patients among the staff, and out of concern for the well-being of patients and workers, it was decided that only workers vaccinated, recovering or participating in the Israeli vaccine could reach work," the workers said in a letter. It was further stated that the directive applies only to non-essential workers.
Last week, Rothstein announced that starting Sunday, employees who have not been vaccinated for non-medical reasons will be banned from coming into contact with patients. He added that the hospital management would consider transferring these employees to a position that does not include contact with an audience or their spending on leave, and would even consider continuing to employ them. "It is the duty of management to inform each and every one of you that management cannot provide the unvaccinated public with a work environment protected from the virus," Rothstein wrote. He clarified that the hospital “will not provide legal or insurance protection against future claims against a staff member, who has caused in his decision not to vaccinate direct or indirect harm to any person