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The electronic bracelets in Corona show how indifferent the country is to violence against women

The Corona has proven that when the government wants something it achieves it, for example when it tramples on individual protection laws to save immigrants from abroad isolation in a hotel. The electronic restraint law against violent men is buried between Knesset committees, it is time to adopt it and the stricter criteria

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Aliza Lavie

Monday, 08 March 2021, 22:19 Updated: 22:20

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In the name of the raging epidemic, we put everything aside and act with all our might.

Electronic Bracelet Distribution Stations at Ben Gurion Airport, March 1, 2021 (Photo: Keinan Cohen)

International Women's Day is designed to highlight the economic, political, cultural and social achievements of women, but more importantly, it is meant to give prominence to the challenges and failures that still remain.

Inequality and disparities are particularly pronounced when examining the place of women in the political, economic, security, and labor market forces of all shades.

This time it was the Corona that proved once again, that the achievements that have been built for years, tier after tier for women and for the promotion of social equality, are unstable in times of crisis and very vulnerable.

But the Corona has sharpened something else: while the government really “wants something” and decides that this is very important to it, it does.

It works in every way possible.

Decisions concerning the same "thing" win even in days of political and systemic paralysis.

So far we have become accustomed to the fact that the state decides and wants only when the issue is related to national security.

The Corona came and reminded us that the state decides and wants, even if not on security issues, it succeeds.

For example, the decision to require the wearing of an electronic bracelet for returnees from abroad, thus saving them the time of isolation in a motel. In the name of the raging epidemic, we put everything aside and act with all our might. An action against it years ago was violated. The professionals who oppose it, or claim that they have no power to enforce it, are politely pushed aside and become transparent. The media, as a reflection of public sentiment, makes the decision with understanding. Everyone nods indifferently.

If everyone is indifferent, why am I called out? So I tried to enact the "electronic restraint law." According to this bill, men who have received a restraining order from their spouses will wear the bracelet and thus the law enforcement authorities will have enforcement and supervision tools if the spouse violated. The order and approached.A lot of suffering and pain would have been spared for very many families, women would have been saved from death if the state had decided then, that the issue of harming women really matters to them.You guessed right.This

bill passed in advance as early as 2017, Away from the King's Road, befitting a negligible issue in the order of priority of decision makers and heads of state.

The government proposal that passed a year later, with a commitment to pass it in "Bezeq legislation" - did not succeed.

Some will say, we are indeed a "start-up nation", but we fail in bureaucracy.

Such a statement may be based on a correct assumption, but it makes a significant assumption for the real reason why important issues are not addressed: setting priorities fails.

This is a recurring pattern that requires a fundamental change in our thinking as a nation.

Our thought, of all of us, must be based on the understanding that public space must be safe for everyone, both women and men, equally.

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Prisoner with electronic restraint by the IPS, November 27, 2019 (Photo: Niv Aharonson)

On Women's Day, we, as a society, must adopt at least one major national goal a year, which we will promote in favor of gender equality.

Not to let Women's Day celebrations obscure the lofty goal of promoting all women and bringing them to a proper position of equality in modern society and a moral state.

The corona presented us with a mirror and sharpened for us how flawed the decision-making processes are.

Sponsored by the same epidemic, this is a great time for change and repair.

Change can start today: start adopting the model of electronic restraint even against beating men against whom a restraining order has been issued.

We as a society are backing the country that is mobilizing huge resources and fighting a violent virus that is raging and harming the innocent.

All that is needed is to adopt the same stringent criteria against the virus of violence against women.

Dr. Aliza Lavie is a former MK and chair of the Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality

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