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2023-02-13T12:40:24.701Z


This is a proposal by a member of the Otzma Yehudit party, and it is being promoted to fight the phenomenon of illegal weapons in the Arab sector. However, it gives almost sweeping authority to the police to search homes without a court order with the approval of a police officer at the rank of superintendent


Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir arrives at the scene of the rape in Gadara (spokesperson of the Ministry of National Security)

Under the pressure of the Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gabir, the coalition is rapidly promoting a bill that would allow the police to search homes without a search warrant.

This is a proposal by a member of the Otzma Yehudit party, MK Yitzhak Kreuzer, and Ben Gvir demanded that the committee be convened exceptionally tomorrow even though it convened yesterday. The proposal is being promoted to fight the phenomenon of illegal weapons in the Arab sector, but in this way it gives almost blanket authority to the police to search homes without A court order, this with the approval of a police officer with the rank of superintendent.



The proposal will go up for approval in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation and it will be advanced on Wednesday for approval in a preliminary reading in the plenary, despite the fact that during his time in the opposition, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sharply criticized it and said that it was a "North Korea-style" law The Likud's Twitter account claimed at the time that this was one of the laws "that do not exist in any democracy in the world".

Lahav 433 investigators raid a house of money laundering suspects (Photo: Israel Police spokeswoman, Israel Police spokeswoman)

MK Kreuzer (photo: official website, Yossi Logsi Fleshman)

The text of the bill stipulates that it will apply as a temporary provision for 12 months, and in the explanatory notes it is stated that "the State of Israel is facing a wave of violence and crime, in Israeli society as a whole and in Arab society in particular", and its purpose "is to allow the law enforcement system the tools to fight the rising crime and in the process the proliferation The illegal weapon used by criminals and terrorists and results in the loss of human life."



The bill also provides for the possibility of searching for documentation or a camera that may be used as evidence for the commission of a serious crime or misdemeanor, a high financial fine for one or more people who keep the illegal weapon in the place where the illegal weapon was caught up to NIS 80,000 and not less than NIS 20,000.

In addition, according to the proposal, the prison sentence for firing a firearm will be increased and it will be possible under certain conditions to confiscate property for the crime of arms trafficking, if it is property that came as a result of committing the crime.

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The explanatory notes also state that "in recent years, crime has intensified in Arab society and it exacts the price of loss of human life, both of those involved in the crime and of the innocent. This crime is characterized, among other things, by the possession of illegal weapons, the collection of sponsorship fees, and shooting at residences." , and therefore it is necessary to promote the proposal in order to address the phenomenon.

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