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Under the radar, two important events happened yesterday (Tuesday) that got lost in the night of news and the incessant noise we are all subjected to.
These two events are an attempt by the government to restrict freedom of expression and strategic events in the eyes of the ombudsman Gali Behara Miara in defending it. The
first event is the counsel's position in the petition filed against her by Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf to the High Court, alleging that the counsel favorably discriminates in law enforcement against the protesters against the legal revolution .
Before the petition was submitted, a government meeting was held in July where the ministers "washed" the advisor on the grounds that she discriminates against other protesters, while she allegedly discriminates favorably against the protesters of the legal revolution.
In an unusual way, the adviser even stated this in her position to the Supreme Court: "The style of the statements against the Legal Adviser to the Government and the heads of the law enforcement system at this meeting was apparently intended to put pressure on the Legal Adviser to the Government and law enforcement officials to change the scope of enforcement against participants in protests against the government. The petition This lawsuit, which was submitted at the beginning of August 2023, shortly after the government meeting and the response of the legal counsel to the government following it, echoes the same claims."
Spokesperson Gali Beharev Mara/Reuters
At the same time, in her position to the High Court, the consultant repeated what she said at that meeting according to which: "The law enforcement system is indeed a part of the executive authority, but it cannot in any way be used as a tool by the government to suppress protests against it and God forbid that it be perceived by the public as being influenced The government's position in making decisions on the prosecution of protesters against the government."
Those around her made it clear that the petition was intended to try to put pressure on it to intervene in the considerations of prosecuting protesters against this legal revolution, even though there have been no demonstrations against the legal reform since the outbreak of the Iron Swords War. Despite this, Minister Wasserlauf did not withdrew his petition despite the request of the counselor that he do so.
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Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf/Reuven Castro
The second incident is related to the abducted attempt by the chairman of the National Security Committee, MK Zvika Vogel, to change the law called the "Al Jazeera Law", as reported by Tal Shelov.
According to the amendments to the new bill, Vogel wants to transfer the authority to close a TV channel from the hands of the Minister of Defense to the hands of the Ministers of National Security and Communications.
But worse than that, the change in the law introduces additional grounds for closing foreign media that are not only related to harming state security.
From a check we conducted with the spokeswomen of the Knesset, it appears that the legal counsel of the Knesset has not yet formulated an opinion regarding the proposed changes in the law, this is in contrast to the position of the ombudsman who opposes changing the wording of the law. From what she sees as a dangerous precedent that will give power to silence foreign media, a power that can later be directed to Israeli media.
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