Published 2 November 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b4524
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b4524

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Two Israeli women are barred from entering Egypt to attend breast cancer conference

Judy Siegel-Itzkovich

1 Jerusalem

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The foreign ministry in Jerusalem has protested against a decision by Egypt to bar two Israeli women from entering the country to take part in a conference on breast cancer.

The women—one a family therapist with expertise in serious illness and bereavement and the other a physician who has survived breast cancer—had planned to travel to Egypt on US and Canadian passports to minimise red tape. However, just before their planned departure they were told by the organisation running the conference, Susan G Komen for the Cure, that Egypt’s health minister had prohibited their entry into the country.

The news led to wide publicity in the US media after the Anti-Defamation League, a US based organisation founded in 1913 to fight antisemitism, issued a strong protest against the boycott. The conference was held in the third week of October under the patronage of Suzanne Mubarak, wife of Egypt’s president.

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