A new party under the leadership of a doctor who opposes vaccines and who has had his medical license suspended at least once is gearing up to run for the Knesset in the March election, on a platform that focuses on healthcare and increasing the national healthcare budget.
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Party head Dr. Arieh Avni opposes western medicine, including vaccines, and has published material attacking members of the medical profession and the medical establishment in Israel.
The Rapeh party platform states that its members intend to "work to change the priorities of the healthcare system for the good of the citizens of Israel, and end the monopoly on medical treatments by integrating alternative medicine into the Israeli healthcare system."
On his Facebook page, Avni discusses his new party, writing: "And this is the third point of our platform: the mission of Rapeh is to heal the long-term ills of the Health Ministry, which reached new heights in 2020-2021 and were seen in insufferable medical coercion and harm to human rights – lockdown, social distancing, electronic tracking, 'green passports,' mandatory masks, the destruction of the economy, and the public being misled."
Avni writes, "The crimes that they, the top officials in the Health Ministry over the years, have committed since the founding of the state against the residents of this country are an atrocity. They, the senior officials, have made the residents of Israel into slaves of the vaccine manufacturers, and chemotherapy and a sea of medications, without teaching them anything about ways of maintaining their health."
Avni's views are not limited to vaccines. In 2015 the Health Ministry suspended his license for a month after he published articles on a website accusing oncologists of killing cancer patients through conventional cancer treatments.
Some of his quotes cited in the ministry's decision to suspend his license include an assertion by Avni that "If cancer patients refused on masse to take poison, oncologists would be out of work," and "Oncologists are the main factor in digging the graves of 10,000 cancer patients in Israel every year."
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