The Government's role in initiating bills and regulations and passing them to the Knesset to discuss them seriously • The new emergency legislation is a dangerous precedent • Opinion

• Knesset plenary // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon

Difficult to understand how not to tremble reach of 29 MKs vote is supported by second and third readings of the bill for validity of emergency regulations. Marched they abused their offices as members of the legislature, creating a dangerous precedent.



The role of the government to initiate legislation and regulations and to transfer them to the Knesset to discuss them seriously Head, with discretion, and decide whether they should be approved as a text and whether or not they should be amended and may be completely redundant.

This is how the government and the Knesset have been operating for 72 years. Thus, about 7,000 laws were enacted in the State of Israel. Even during wars and between them, even during difficult economic crises such as the recession of the 1960s, there was never a government that shunned, disregarded and ignored its existence. It is true that we are in the midst of difficult test days due to the damage of the Corona virus, but even during a state crisis it does not break free from all the rules and laws and invent new patents.

It is not for no reason that Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin expressed his protest. He said that "the Knesset is not a rubber stamp of the government. The fact that the government does not have all the tools necessary to act to stop the Corona is largely to blame, because the laws are brought to the Knesset at the last minute and sometimes after the emergency regulations have expired. "