Bentzi Robin, knitted news16.12.22 08:10 22 in Kislo Tishpeg
The Knesset plenum approved in first reading the bill that would allow Aryeh Deri to serve as a kosher minister, and the bill that would allow the appointment of a second minister in a government ministry.
This is a merger between two private bills – one by Knesset member Moshe Arbel dealing with the qualifications of ministers, and the other by Knesset members Simcha Rotman and Nissim Vatori, which concerns the appointment of another minister in a government ministry. 63 members of the Knesset supported the proposal, compared to 52 who opposed it, and it will be returned for further consideration by the special committee established to discuss it.
According to the first proposed law known as the “Deri Law” and the “Smotrich Law”, the limitation of eligibility to appoint a person to a minister due to his conviction for a crime will only exist if that person has been sentenced to actual imprisonment. The second bill states that in addition to the minister in charge of a government ministry, it will be possible to appoint another minister in the ministry, so that two ministers will serve in the same ministry at the same time. The additional minister will be the minister in charge of certain areas within areas of activity, subject to the minister in charge of the ministry.
MK Simcha Rothman, one of the initiators of the Smotrich Law, said: “The bill seeks to return Atra to its former glory – there was a structure of an additional minister in the ministry as part of a temporary order during the term of the 23rd Knesset. There was a government bill on behalf of the Ministry of Justice that was placed on the Knesset table and wanted to make the same arrangement in the 24th Knesset as well. What we wanted to do was make the structure of an additional minister in the ministry a permanent structure.”
MK Moshe Arbel, one of the initiators of the Deri Law, said: “The wording of Section 6(c)1 of the Basic Law applies to the best of our interpretation and our understanding only applies to those who have been convicted and sentenced to prison in practice. In our view, this is not a request to amend a law, but rather the adoption of a wording that will clarify the original intention of the legislator and thereby promote important constitutional rights that may be harmed by a wrong interpretation – the right to choose and be elected – from the basic rights in our democratic regime.”
MK Gadi Eisenkot from the state camp attacked the transfer of the laws and said: “The decision to transfer responsibility for the civil administration to the additional minister is a decision of the weakening and fragmentation of the systems which causes concern and bodes ill. On the assumption that we all share the desire that the IDF will continue to operate effectively in Israel and fulfill the mission given to it – I call on the future government to avoid short-sighted political measures and to enslave the security of the State of Israel.”
The Minister of Justice, Gideon Sa’ar, said: “I am sorry that you chose the Defamation Bypass Law as the first flagship law you bring to this Knesset. This is legislation that carries with it defamation. You chose to waste the significant public credit you received in the elections on this despicable legislation. You unfortunately decided to follow a destructive and unrestrained path. You chose a quick and hasty discussion in order to lower the bar required of members of the government in regards to the purity of character for the purpose of qualifying a certain person for the position of minister.”
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