Correspondent in Jerusalem
Even before the new government led by Binyamin Netanyahu was formalized, the deputies of his coalition examined, in the Knesset, a series of provisions guaranteeing future ministers tailor-made posts.
These bills give a fairly clear idea of the policy they intend to apply.
The first is an amendment to a fundamental law.
It plans to reduce the time after which a person sentenced to prison can receive a ministerial office.
It allows Aryé Dery, a member of the ultra-Orthodox Shass party, who was given a suspended sentence for a tax offence, to become Minister of Health, then of Finance, replacing Bezalel Smotrich.
A second text, introduced by Otzma Yehudit, the party of Itamar Ben Gvir, future Minister of National Security, clearly increases his power over the police.
A third offers Bezalel Smotrich, the leader of the Religious Zionist Party, control of the Civil Administration…
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