On the 1st November the Knesset Labor, Social Affairs and Health Committee approved a bill allowing that state licensing exams for the paramedical profession to be taken also in English.
Previously, these exams have only been available in Hebrew and Arabic.
The change is applicable to exams for physiotherapists, clinical communications specialists (hearing and speech), occupational therapists and clinical dieticians.
Deputy Health Minister Ya’acov Litzman asked the committee to approve the regulations for paramedical professionals in order to ease the process of licensing for new immigrants. For this reason, licensing exams for doctors have long been available in a variety of languages, and those for nurses have been produced in English and Spanish for a number of years.
Representatives of Nefesh B’ Nefesh have asked the chair of the committee MK Haim Katz to add further optional languages for state licensing exams. MK Katz said he was willing to do so.
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