Following the publication of Knesset member Orit Stuck’s comments that doctors should be allowed to refuse care to the LGBTQ+ community, Prof. Zion Hagay issued the following statement.

Prof. Zion Hagay, President of the Israeli Medical Association: "Doctors in Israel are bound by the Physician’s Oath and will not allow any person or any law to change this fact. We will not allow anyone to introduce foreign or political considerations into the relationship between doctors and patients: "The health system has always been an island of sanity, a symbol of coexistence, a place where Jews and Arabs work shoulder to shoulder, with the value of equality as a guiding principal. In the Hebrew Physicians’ Oath it is explicitly stated ‘You shall help the sick whomever they may be, whether stranger, foreigner, or citizen, whether base or respected.' Similarly, in the Rambam's physician's prayer it is written: ‘I shall always see in my patient only the human being’. This is how it has always been, and this is how it shall always be."