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Accepted: 18 February 2025

First Online: 11 March 2025

Declarations

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: Open access funding provided by University of Haifa. This research was funded by the Israel Ministry of Health, Haifa Department of Family Health Stations (Grant number 1234). Its publication is not contingent upon the sponsor’s approval. The authors declare that no funds, grants, or other support were received during the preparation of this article.

: Irit Chudner, Anat Drach-Zahavy, Batia Madjar, Leah Gelman and Sonia Habib have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.

: All procedures followed were in accordance with ethical approval. The study was approved by the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences in Haifa University Ethics Committee on 28/2/24, approval number 041996.

: Informed consent was obtained from all responders included in the study.

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: All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by IC, AD-Z, and LG. BM and SH contributed to the conclusions and recommendations development and facilitated access to key stakeholders and rabbinical authorities in this closed community, enabling the recruitment of participants. The first draft of the manuscript was written by IC, and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.