News brief Doctors threaten to strike in case of a constitutional crisis

The "White Coats," an organization of doctors who stand in opposition to the Israeli government's judicial reform, said on Monday that it would cripple the health system if the government ignores the High Court's ruling against a Basic Law.

"This is a constitutional crisis, in a case like that we will be forced not to come to work," the organization stated. "We call on the Medical Association and the General Labor Union... to declare preemptively, that in a case of a constitutional crisis, the economy will strike until the Prime Minister and his ministers will return to obey the law."

On Sunday, the High Court issued a temporary injunction against the amendment to the Incapacitation Law that was passed by the Knesset in March.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to state outright that he would obey a court decision to cancel the law, and some ministers actively called to disobey such a ruling.