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High Court discusses GSS high school: "400,000 people went into false isolation"

An expanded panel of 7 judges will decide on the petitions against the law that allows patients and isolates to be located using the technological tool.

The use permit will expire in 3 days, but state representatives are interested in extending it following the dissolution of the Knesset.

Justice Amit: 60% of the appeals found were accepted, that is 1.2 million working days

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Daniel Dolev

Sunday, 17 January 2021, 10:02

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Live broadcast from the High Court hearing (Photo: Judge of the Judiciary)

The High Court today (Sunday) heard an expanded panel of seven judges in petitions against the law that authorizes the government to use the GSS 'surveillance surveillance in Corona.

At the beginning of the hearing, Judge Hanan Meltzer informed the parties that about three weeks ago, his wife received a notice due to delays that she should enter solitary confinement, but after she filed an objection, the order was revoked.

Currently, the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee has approved extending its use only until January 20.

On that day, the law giving the government the power to decide on the use of the GSS should expire. However, state representatives informed the High Court that they intend to use a section in the Basic Law of Government that allows for the extension of a law that should expire in case the Knesset dissolves.

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Two months ago, High Court judges issued a conditional order instructing the state to explain why the use of GSS surveillance would not be limited only to cases where patients do not cooperate with the human epidemiological investigation.

In addition, the state was required to explain why it does not comply, ostensibly, with the section of the law that stipulates that it must promote a civil alternative to the GSS. Last month, the state announced that it was considering reducing the use of placements only in cases where the patient did not cooperate. "But in the end the use continued in its full format.

" It may be that in view of all the developments that have taken place, "President Esther Hayut asked the government representative, Insulating received and the idler is all necessary to extend the entire law? "

" there's a picture of complementary tools, "said a representative of the state attorney Shosh Shmueli from the Petitions Department." humane interrogation, protective and interrogators. an expanded very human investigations "It is not that the Ministry of Health is letting go of other tools because it has the service. The human investigations system has been enlarged with the help of the Home Front Command and the local authorities, as well as the testing system."

Judge Anat Baron said that "the very reference to it as a complementary tool, and not as a tool of last resort, is in itself difficult," and Judge Yitzhak Amit added: "We want to understand the benefit. We looked at the Knesset document, which is an amazing and eye-catching document. We dropped significantly to only 9% of those detected only by the GSS.

We were about 20-30 percent, and we went down to 9%.

"" Another thing, "Amit continued," we talked here in total about almost 900,000 contacts that the GSS and everyone located together. Out of 600,000 who submitted objections, 60% were canceled. Doing the calculation of the objections received, if we also look at those who did not submit objections, and suppose 15% of them entered just by chance, we are talking about almost 400,000 people who entered into false isolation.If each took three days to be released, it is 1.2 million working days for the economy. the other side".

Shmueli: "In my opinion, when we talk about ten percent of the verified patients, who were exclusively located by the service, it is a significant number. The absolute numbers are high, it is about 9,000 patients. It is not a small number."

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