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The Commissioner will refer to the "Ben Gabir Law" in the Knesset; the chairman of Otzma Yehudit: "This is a historical correction" - voila! news

2022-12-14T10:23:19.023Z


Kobi Shabtai participates in the discussion of the committee that discusses the articles of the law whose purpose is to subordinate the organization to the minister. Ben Gabir in the committee: "Bar-Lev is the one who made the police political"


Live broadcast from the Knesset (photo: Roni Kanfo)

Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai will express his position today (Wednesday) in the Knesset regarding the "Ben Gabir Law", which aims to subordinate the organization to the minister in charge. Shabtai will speak in a speech to the committee that will discuss the law, which convenes after the law was approved last night in a preliminary reading in the plenary.



Today's discussion will be held after yesterday's meeting The chairman of Otzma Yehudit and the designated minister of national security, Itamar Ben Gabir, with the substitutes for the legal advisor to the government, Gali Beharev Miara, in an attempt to convince them to support the law and remove their opposition to it.

Naor Committee to Investigate the Miron Disaster: Testimony of Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, Malcha Technology Garden Jerusalem, April 11, 2022 (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)

The purpose of the bill passed last night is to anchor the subordination of the police and the commissioner to the government and the minister, but without the subject of investigations that the police carry out. Also, the proposal anchors the role of the commissioner as entrusted with the management of the Israel Police, its operation, and the development of its capabilities, as well as establishing that he will fulfill his duties In accordance with the policy outline and general principles of the minister.



The proposal further states that the police instructions determined by the commissioner will be in accordance with the policy outline and the general principles of the police. MK Ben Gabir came up to present the bill.

"We are in a democracy, and the goal of democracy is that we determine the policy. We are the defenders of democracy," he said.

Outgoing Minister of Internal Security Amr Bar Lev responded in plenary and said that "this law will turn Israel into a police state. The bill will endanger democracy in the country."

Ben Gvir responded back to him: "What hypocrisy, what two-facedness. What a shame. Only when we make this proposal, is it wrong? You yourself said that there is a problem with authorities."

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"Awake to Criticism and Public Discourse", Shabtai and Ben Gvir. (Photo: Walla! system, Ihud Hatzla spokespersons)

Outgoing Minister of Internal Security Amr Bar-Lev responded to the bill, the memorandum of which was published about a week ago.

"This is a serious injury to the police, turning the Commissioner into a pawn and trampling on democracy," he wrote on his Twitter account. "The Israel Police will become a political and mediocre police that will be run by inexperienced and irresponsible hands;

You will lose any vestige of public trust.

and will experience professional deterioration, damage to its ability to fight crime and corruption, and the flight of excellent officers who do not want to be judges of politicians." He also added that "behind the empty slogans of 'strengthening the police' - these are measures whose purpose is to further undermine the authority of the senior command and the status of the police, And damn the country.

We will all pay the price."



A short time later, a former senior police officer sent an unusual message in a WhatsApp group of retired commissioners and superintendents - in which he publishes a "mourning notice" for the police. "Shocked and hurt.

We announce with deep sorrow and somber grief the untimely passing of the Israel Police, ztzal," he wrote.

"We will accompany her on her last journey on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, at 2:00 p.m., to the Knesset of Israel cemetery in Jerusalem. Condolence visits by her loved ones will be held at the national headquarters, Derech Bar Lev, Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, Jerusalem. Her sons are her daughters and her loved ones."



Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai responded to the media uproar sparked by the proposed law, in a letter he wrote to police last weekend. "The police are currently in the eye of the storm," he wrote. "The Israel Police is a central and leading body in the law enforcement system, and as such it will remain state-owned.

I am open to criticism and open to public discourse.

Reality is complex and sometimes not fully presented, but I clarify here - my goal is clear:

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