The Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, headed by MK Ram Ben-Barak (Yesh Atid), began today (Sunday) to prepare for the call for votes the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Bill, which was initiated by the government, as well as the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Bill initiated by MK Zvi Hauser. Simcha Rotman and 27 Knesset members, as well as the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Bill initiated by MK Avi Dichter.
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Ram Ben Barak, Photo: Yonatan Zindel / Flash 90
Meanwhile, MK Dichter said that "it was right to set an immigration law and nail it seriously, but this is not possible in the current Knesset, so we went for an extra hourly order.
In my bill, I added three components to the government bill.
The first is the quota section, according to which the Minister of the Interior can determine by order, with the approval of the government and with the approval of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, a maximum annual quota of licenses or permits. "
Added three components to the bill, MK Avi Dichter, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
"In the absence of such a determination, the number of approvals to be granted or approved shall not exceed the number granted or approved in the preceding year. The second section stipulates that the Minister of the Interior shall exercise his authority to grant exceptional permits, "Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people, and in another basic law: human dignity and liberty.
MK Dichter later asked that anyone who stays in Israel illegally - his application will not be processed and he will be deported from the country. MK Michal Rosin (Meretz) said that she is willing to condition this, provided that a person staying in Israel with a permit, his application will be processed.
MK Rosin added: "The name of the law is misleading because no one will get citizenship here.
"What I am asking for is what the High Court has been asking for all these years, and that is why we also proposed it on first reading, because the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Interior have promised us the establishment of a committee that will conduct individual inspections and create the balance between maintaining security and maintaining democracy."
"A kind of band-aid", MK Simcha Rotman, Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman - Noam Moskowitz
Meanwhile, MK Rotman (Religious Zionism) said: "The Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order), is from the beginning a kind of band-aid, which we put on the wall of entry into Israel, among other things, because of the High Court ruling. "These are in the Basic Law of Immigration, so that the State of Israel will be a sovereign state that determines for itself who can come through its gates. We demanded a quota, which will be based on the status quo. As long as this coalition exists,
MK Zvi Hauser (New Hope) said that "from 1993 to 2003, 140,000 Palestinians settled in Israel.
Since then, the second intifada has broken out and more than 1,000 civilians have been killed.
When one examines the involvement of Israeli citizens in those riots, one sees a worrying and disproportionate extent of involvement in terrorism among those who immigrated in the previous decade.
Therefore, the State of Israel has decided on a security arrangement, even though it raises great difficulty for the constitutional principles of the State of Israel. "
"The State of Israel took a significant step in completing the Israeli constitution, when in 2018 it also attached the Basic Law of Israel: The Nation State of the Jewish People. Israel, the nation state, are the cornerstones.
The Minister must consider the new constitutional arrangement that has been created, that the Basic Laws of Human Dignity and Nationality are in unison.
The proposed temporary order is complex, but critical to the people who want life, "MK Hauser concluded.
Hagit Tzur, director of the Jerusalem District Bureau of the Population and Immigration Authority, was asked to present data to the committee and said: "From 2017 until the law expired in July 2021, an average of 1,100 applications were submitted per year, for a total of 5,561. 70% of these applications were approved." K (residence permits), which is the first step in the graded process.
"Since the law expired, 2,700-2,800 applications have been submitted, of which about 70 applications have been approved, and the rest are in the process of being examined."
The committee's chairman, MK Ram Ben Barak, concluded: "In our discussion, we are required to separate applications submitted when the law was in force for applications submitted after the law expired, as well as those who have not yet received permits and more than ten thousand people who have been here for temporary permits. "We will continue to discuss the bills this week, and the discussion will begin with additional data from the Ministry of the Interior and then data from the Prime Minister's Office."
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