To the sound of protests in the plenum, the Ben Gabir law passed in the first reading (Knesset Channel)
The Knesset plenum approved this evening (Monday) the splitting of the bill that will grant powers to the designated Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gabir, this in accordance with the recommendation of the Knesset's legal advice and with the consent of Ben Gabir.
Thus, the subordination of the Commissioner of Police to the Minister as well as the section concerning the duration of the processing of cases after the formation of the government will be postponed to another date and will be enacted only after the formation of the government.
The bill itself will allow Ben Gabir to outline police policy, among other things: priorities, work plans, general instructions, instructions The police and the exercise of its powers in regards to the police budget - will be approved by Wednesday evening, at the latest, according to the legislative plan of the future coalition.
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The chairman of the special committee that prepared the law, MK Ofir Katz (Likud), presented the split and attacked the legal advice to the government.
"Because it was Itamar Ben Gabir, so they decided to resist from the first moment, from the first second," he claimed.
"At no point did we feel a willingness on their part to come to compromises. Not only our compromises and not the proposer's, they did not even want to come to compromises on the part of the committee's legal advice, because the one who submits the bill is the one who determines for them whether to support the law or not," the Knesset member added.
"It was very disappointing to see the conduct of the legal advice to the government, which does not look like clean legal advice."
MK Merav Ben Ari Mish Atid claimed, "The law is still bad at such a level that anyone with an iota of understanding understands that this is not how a law should be conducted, neither in terms of a democratic process, nor in terms of substance." Deputy Minister of Internal Security Yoav Seglovitz Mish Atid summarized the The discussion and said, "The police have never been painted in political colors and this law that was put here,
He continued, "This law paints a political color and it gives powers that have no connection between policy, the only connection is power, 'because I can and it is possible.' It remains, and the more you erase it, the more its remains will remain."
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Smotrich and Deri (Photo: Reuven Castro)
After that, the plenum began the debate on a basic law proposal: the government, known as the "Deri-Smotrich law" in preparation for its final approval in a second and third reading during the night.
This is a proposal that will allow Shas chairman Aryeh Deri to be appointed to the position of minister despite his conviction for tax offenses, as well as the appointment of religious Zionism chairman MK Bezalel Smotrich to the position of minister in the Ministry of Defense, in addition to the minister of defense himself, and this includes powers concerning settlements in Judea and Samaria.
The designated opposition is holding a night filibuster during which it will try to delay the vote as much as possible, even though the legislative blitz is expected to end even before the government is sworn in this Thursday.
The heads of the opposition parties met today in the Knesset and announced at the end of the meeting that "when we return to power we undertake to repeal all extreme legislation that harms democracy, security, the economy and Israeli society".
The statement was signed by Yair Lapid, Benny Gantz, Avigdor Lieberman, Merav Michaeli and Mansor Abbas.
Joint list chairman Ayman Odeh was not invited to the meeting.
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