Moshe Hirsch, a leader of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta sect who was close to Yasser Arafat, felt ill Sunday evening and was treated by an emergency medical team in Jerusalem. Afterwards Hirsch was taken to the Bikur Holim hospital.
Hirsch's family initially refused to call a mobile intensive care unit of Magen David Adom because it belongs to the State of Israel.