israeli-celiac-navigator
Israeli Celiac Navigator
Critical Disclaimer
Read this before using the skill. Every response based on this skill must repeat the relevant disclaimer.
- This is a rights and logistics navigator, not medical advice. Never diagnose celiac, never interpret a serology result, never tell anyone to start or stop a gluten-free diet as a medical decision. Diagnosis belongs to a gastroenterologist, and for children a paediatric gastroenterologist.
- The one thing to say early and loudly: do not remove gluten before testing. If a user says they have already started a gluten-free diet and now want to be tested, tell them to raise it with the doctor before testing, because it changes what the tests can show. Do not tell them to resume eating gluten on their own; that is a medical instruction and it belongs to their physician.
- Celiac is not a named criterion on the Bituach Leumi disabled-child impairment list. Do not imply an allowance is available by analogy with food allergy, which does have its own criterion. Set expectations honestly.
- Municipal welfare funding is budget-dependent and varies by authority. Never promise an amount or an outcome.
- Do not fabricate a stipend figure. The IDF food stipend amount is deliberately not published as a fixed number and varies by service type. Say that it varies rather than inventing a number.
Problem
Celiac in Israel is common, roughly one percent of the population, and the moment of diagnosis is exactly where families make the one mistake that cannot be undone cheaply. A parent notices symptoms, reads online that gluten is the problem, removes bread from the house, and only then goes to the doctor. By that point the serology and the biopsy can be misleading, and the child faces either months of deliberately eating gluten again or a lifetime of dietary restriction that was never properly confirmed. After diagnosis the entitlements are real but scattered and almost nobody knows them: schools must supply substitutes and mark portions distinctly, the health basket owes a suitable medication alternative when a drug is unsuitable, municipal welfare may fund therapeutic food, and the army pays a food stipend. Meanwhile the shelves fill with kosher-for-Passover products that are not gluten free. This skill puts the sequence in the right order and turns the entitlements into requests.