Arden demanded that the conditions of incarceration be tightened - the directive remained on paper Israel today

In January 2019, former Homeland Security Minister Gilad Ardan decided to adopt the main conclusions of the public committee he set up to examine the conditions of terrorists in prisons.

Arden explained that the State of Israel has never properly defined the distinction between security prisoners and criminal prisoners, and the purpose of imprisonment derived therefrom.

"When it comes to security prisoners, one of the main purposes of imprisonment - rehabilitation - is not fulfilled, as these are prisoners imbued with a terrorist ideology who do not regret their actions at all," he said, instructing the Prisons Service to redefine the prisoners' prisoners. The law and their removal from the public - it will also include creating deterrence in the face of the terrorist organizations to which the terrorists belong.

Former Minister Gilad Ardan, Mark Israel Salem

The main recommendations of the committee were: 1) The cessation of autonomy in prisons - Hamas members will not sit in a separate wing and Fatah in a separate wing.

2) Abolition of the "spokesman" institution for prisoners in its current form - the connection between the prisons and the terrorists will no longer be conducted through the divisional spokesman.

Arden has decided to establish a function of a rotating prisoner representative, who will liaise with the prison authorities solely on general issues and by no means those that concern prisoners individually, and that this prisoner representative will not be a terrorist with blood on his hands.

3) Cuts in the money deposited in the prisons for terrorists - It was proposed to make a significant cut in the money deposited by the families of the terrorists in the prisons, through which they purchase products in the canteen, the cessation of deposits on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, the cessation of group deposits completely.

A police checkpoint on Route 75, designed to locate the fleeing terrorists, Hertz Shapira

4) Cessation of cooking in the incarceration wards - basic food supply by IPS only.

5) Reducing water consumption - In light of the unusual and extreme water waste among security prisoners, Arden decided to take the showers out of the prisoners' wings, set goals to reduce water consumption and install systems to prevent excessive consumption.

The terrorists' use of water will be limited, as will the consumption per prisoner.

In practice, the committee's conclusions remained as recommendations only.

The defense establishment opposed the tightening of the conditions of incarceration of security prisoners, fearing that their implementation would cause riots in prisons and territories.