Eight MKs from the designated opposition parties, at the initiative of MK Naama Lazimi, sent a letter to the chairman of the special committee on the Ben Gabir Law, MK Ofir Katz, claiming that the law that subordinates the commissioner to the designated minister is expected to harm women in Israel.
"The potential harm to women stems from 3 reasons," the MKs wrote in their letter, "from the nature of the coalition and the future government, from the nature of the party of the designated minister, and from historical reason.
First, the coalition formed is one of the darkest coalitions that Israel has known.
This is a coalition with only 14% of women, among whom there is even a member of the Knesset who was called "the angel of the rapists", the MKs wrote.
MK Naama Lazimi. Initiative of the letter, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Chairman of the committee MK Ofir Katz.
Will he refer to the letter?, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
It is also written that "the coalition negotiations were mediated by Natan Eshel, who was banned from working in the civil service because he photographed one of his employees under her skirt."
The expected coalition does not include a single faction that would balance the misogynistic reforms that the designated minister would promote.
The law de facto harms Israeli women.
This is a law that will harm all the steps we have taken forward to eradicate sexual and domestic violence."
The signatories to the letter claim that Ben Gabir, who is a partner in the religious Zionist party and a partner of Finance Minister-designate Bezalel Smotrich, supported the promotion of a law that would require sexual harassment complaints to sign an affidavit that it was not a false complaint.
We note that Ben Gvir belongs to the Otzma Yehudit party which is a different and independent party that ran in a technical block with religious Zionism in the last elections.
"What will guarantee that he (Ben Gabir) will not devote more resources to investigating allegedly false complaints than to the treatment of sex offenders? What will guarantee that he will not take care to sweep under the table complaints about pedophile rabbis associated with his sect or men's organizations associated with his party? Does a minister who comes from such a party really deserve All the authority over the prosecution of sex offenders? Or the authority over operative decisions for false complaints?"
the MKs wrote in the letter.
Shabtai and Ben Gvir in the committee to discuss the bill to amend the police ordinance, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Signed on the letter:
MK Naama Lazimi
Minister of Social Equality MK Merav Cohen
Minister of Energy MK Karin Elharer
MK Efrat Raiten
MK Debi Biton
MK Iman Khativ-Yasin
MK Yasmin Sachs-Friedman
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