The government wants to use the Shin Bet, Israel's Preventive Security Service, with draconian measures aimed at fighting terrorism. The longstanding neglect of the government and law enforcement authorities has given rise to a crisis of governance in Arab society.
The High Court of Justice established a test: "the test of grave and immediate danger to the citizens and residents of the state or to its regime orders" In secret debates on the law in 1998, Knesset members from both the right and the left warned that the law could be used by governments to violate civil rights.