The attorneys' organization, which represents approximately 1,100 attorneys' offices and attorneys in the public sector, announced today (Wednesday), in continuation of the announced labor dispute, a two-hour warning strike tomorrow (Thursday) - after the Public Prosecutor's Law passed a preliminary reading earlier today.
According to the plan, the attorneys will report to work tomorrow only at 10:00 - this is due to the transfer today in a preliminary reading of the bill that was first published in "Israel Today".
The law was drafted by MK Moshe Saada (Likud), who was nominated on the party list by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and who served as deputy head of the National Security Agency.
This is an initiative that shakes the law enforcement system.
In the new bill, a move is planned to remove the State Attorney's Office from the hands of the Attorney General's Office, subordinate it directly to the Minister of Justice, and add authority to the State Attorney's Office to investigate attorneys, including the investigation of the State Attorney.
The opponents claim that this is a recipe for the dissolution of the National Security Agency, so that it will be subject to political factors.
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MK Moshe Saada, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
The time has come for an effective and independent audit body for the prosecutor's office as well.
It's time for governance.
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"Severe and one-sided injury"
The chairman of the attorneys' organization, attorney Orit Korin: "The law passed today in Trumit means removing an entire department and all its employees from the attorney's office and transferring it to an administrative and non-professional authority. In addition, the bill works to create a body that will investigate attorneys in criminal investigations and not by the Israel Police when This unit will be subordinate to the minister. This is a serious and unilateral attack on prosecutors and a desire to threaten them while fulfilling their public duties."
Korin also added and said that "the state's intention to unilaterally make organizational changes is in a way that will severely damage the employment security of the attorneys as civil servants, their status, their promotion and their conditions. This is an offensive and rolling move that was made in bad faith and in a way that is not acceptable in labor relations in general, and in collective labor relations In the public service in particular."
Attorney Korin points out that if the moves continue unilaterally, as they have been done so far,
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