The cracks in the coalition: Meretz's move to halt the Citizenship Law

Meretz filed an appeal with the aim of blocking the bill from reaching the plenum without agreement with the Meretz and Ra'am factions, after the outline agreed upon was not implemented.

Yaki Adamkar and his Tal

19/01/2022

Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 19:23 Updated: 19:42

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Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz at a meeting of the Meretz faction, January 3, 2022 (Photo: screenshot, Knesset channel)

Tonight (Wednesday), the Meretz party filed an appeal with the Cabinet Secretariat over the Citizenship Bill, with the aim of blocking the bill reaching the plenum without agreement with the Meretz and Ra'am factions, after the outline agreed upon was not implemented

. The party has explained in recent days that Shaked has committed to a series of summaries around the unification of Palestinian families even before the law was approved but did not abide by them, so they refuse to support her proposal. Appealed against the decision of the Ministerial Committee on Legislation to support the citizenship law of MK Simcha Rotman of Religious Zionism. This is the wording of a stricter law in terms of Meretz and RAAM, and Lapid claimed that he supports the law in principle but does not want it to be promoted because the person who submitted it is an "anti-Zionist" party when referring to MK Bezalel Smutrich's party.

The committee, led by Justice Minister Gideon Saar, approved Rothman's proposal, as part of a move designed to mobilize opposition support for a law promoted by Shaked.

During the hearing held on Sunday, a confrontation broke out between Saar, Shaked and Minister Tamar Zandberg (Meretz) in the face of Meretz's opposition to advancing the law.

After the vote, Lapid submitted an appeal to the government secretariat, which means that the proposal will not be advanced in the Knesset until another discussion in the government plenum.

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The Citizenship Law has been in force by virtue of a temporary provision that has been extended every year since 2003, when it was enacted in the background of the second intifada. Its purpose is to impose restrictions on the granting of citizenship or residence permits in Israel to Palestinians who have married Israelis, as well as to citizens of Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq who wish to receive status in the context of family reunification. The temporary order was born under the directive of the then Minister of the Interior, Eli Yishai, at the end of March 2002.

The law was supposed to receive Knesset approval by July 6, but it expired after no majority was obtained to support it. He recently passed a ministerial committee for legislation, but even now he does not have a majority in the Knesset. After the law expired, the director general of the Population and Immigration Authority claimed that Interior Minister Shaked had instructed her to deal with applications for family unification in accordance with the legal situation he was in during the period of validity of the Temporary Order Law.

The Supreme Court ruled last week that the state cannot continue to conduct itself as if the Citizenship Act were in force.

This, following the appeal of the Association for Civil Rights, HaMoked and Physicians for Human Rights.

The Interior Ministry continued to handle inquiries on the subject in accordance with the law, although it was no longer in force.

Coalition officials this week criticized Lapid's decision to appeal Rothman's law, after it had already been approved by the Ministerial Committee on Legislation.

"Once Torch breaks the dam there is a danger that it will become a custom and habit that will make it very difficult for the government to function. Now anyone who wants to earn political points will file an appeal and it will be very difficult to move forward."

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