Director of the Hadassah Medical Center, Prof. Zeev Rotstein, ordered to combine the pediatric and adult hematology-oncology transplant departments. This move was part of an overall financial recovery plan for the hospital. Prof. Mickey Weintraub, head of the department, and the team of physicians, refused to carry out this move, claiming that it would be detrimental to the children. The children’s parents protested and the attempts of the minister of health to bring about a compromise between the parties, failed. Finally, in response to the physicians’ requests, the matter was submitted to the Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the management. Prof. Weintraub and his team resigned from the hospital, and the children were dispersed in various hospitals for treatment.

In the photo, the father of one of the children treated in the department verbally attacks the hospital director, Prof. Rotstein.