The Knesset plenum approved the Electricity Law on first reading Live television

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The Knesset Plenum will convene today (Monday) to discuss a variety of issues and bills. The first of these is the Knesset bill by MK Walid Taha, which was approved in the first reading by a majority of 61 supporters against 48 opponents and one abstaining party – MK Patin Mula. .

According to the proposal, the Minister of the Interior will be entitled to stipulate in the order that it will be possible to connect a residential building located in a certain area, defined in the order, to electricity, water or telephone even without the existence of a building permit and certificate of completion for that building. The conditions for issuing the order are: A plan was submitted by one of the parties listed in the bill, the structure for which the connection was requested was established by January 1, 2018 and no construction was added to them after that date.

In addition, it is proposed to set a timetable for consultation with the district committee and for the decision of the Minister of the Interior, as well as to determine the conditions required of those seeking to connect these structures such as an undertaking to apply for a permit within the time limit set in the bill and attaching a bank guarantee.

The explanatory memorandum to the proposal reads: “In many localities in Israel, mostly Arab localities, the residents suffered for years from lack of planning, and therefore residents of these localities were unable to issue building permits and connect to electricity, water or telephone. Illegal.

The bill is primarily intended to ensure that the said connections are made legally and safely, among other things because connecting a building to electricity illegally may be done unsafely and greatly endanger those who live in the same building and those who are in its vicinity. As proposed, the connection to electricity will be made legally and safely and in accordance with the safety requirements of the IEC.

In addition, the purpose of the bill is to enable an adequate standard of living for tens of thousands of people who live in houses built without a building permit and are not connected to a suitable infrastructure suitable for Israel at this time. “

MK Walid Taha Presented the proposal and explained: “I am coming up here to introduce a law that will finally do justice to tens of thousands of citizens who were forced to build their homes without permits because it was simply impossible to get permits. They were not allowed to access to get permits, simply because they did not plan So they neither planned nor punished them for not connecting them to electricity, hence adding sin to crime. “They are planning for him, this era is over.”

While MK Taha came up to the podium and introduced the bill, MK Dudi Amsalem You confronted him. In response, Taha slammed Amsalem: “Arabs are going to connect to electricity, is that a crime?”, And Amsalem replied, “Aren’t you ashamed?”.

“Does it upset you that Arabs will be connected to electricity? You are inon, locked in advance, a crime has been committed here against tens of thousands of houses,” Taha shouted at the Knesset member Yinon Azulai. “Tens of thousands of homes that the state has nothing against, are not initiating proceedings against, nothing, but also do not want to connect them to electricity.”

Taha added: “Why? Because there are complications of lack of permit, hence lack of electricity. I propose an amendment to the law based on amendment logic. A. This is a comprehensive plan for the locality, B. It is enough to have a comprehensive and detailed plan and a commitment to pay the levies, I am talking about levies that every citizen pays when he comes to issue a building permit. “

He added: “It is not a punishment, it is a civic duty, every citizen pays for a building permit and hence he supports planning. This money that came to the authority and the planning committees will be used by them to accelerate plans, as has not been done so far, there was a lack of planning policy, it did not happen Just like that. “

Taha concluded: “The era of oppressing the citizen because it is not planned for him – is over. We give the Arab citizen the basic right, which feels Yinon and Amsalem, the citizen will get electricity if his approval meets the three criteria. And everyone it upsets him – you are worthless ! “.

Walid Taha in the Knesset Plenum (Photo: Noam Moskowitz, Knesset Spokeswoman)

Later, Knesset members from the opposition came up to oppose the law. MK Dudi Amsalem Accused: “Since the establishment of the state until today there has not been a dangerous move for the State of Israel like this law. The Bedouin took over the entire Negev, state lands, set up huts and took over everything. Today in the Negev there is chaos and you know it, and you say let the criminals get electricity and water “It’s like the one who murdered his parents and came to court and said he was an orphan.”

“In any reformed country, tomorrow all the state forces are mobilized to take out the invaders who took over state lands some of which are responsible for all protection and what is happening in the Negev, we are losing the Negev. This is the most serious national event I know. Zionism in the State of Israel. “

MK Joy Rotman He also went up to the podium and slammed: “A government captured by Hamas that operates in the interests of the Islamic Movement, the sister movement of Hamas,” he accused. “The people who preach early in the morning and tonight for against the regulation law did so on the grounds that they give a reward to criminals, prepare the robbery. What turns out? Connect tens of thousands of homes to electricity, even if they were built illegally. “

Dudi Amsalem (Photo: Noam Moskowitz, Knesset Spokeswoman)Dudi Amsalem (Photo: Noam Moskowitz, Knesset Spokeswoman)

MK Yariv Levin Attacked the face server Ayelet Shaked: “The bill is a complete elimination of the rule of law and the laundering of many hundreds of illegal houses built on land that invaded it, whose owner is the State of Israel. They are doing this with deliberate motives for nationalist reasons, and Shaked is doing this in her dubious and shameful deal with MK Taha.

He continued: “At the time we are approving this law Shaked is not promoting or doing anything to connect the young settlement to electricity. There the children are still freezing cold. The Zionist Jewish pioneers are left without electricity and the nationalist invaders who are destroying state lands are connected to electricity. “She’s Ayelet Shaked. Shame on you.”

Also MK Miri Regev Attacked the interior minister: “How Mrs. Shaked is not ashamed. Approves and launders tens of thousands of criminals in the Negev. Makes a liquidation sale of the Negev so that Abbas does not undermine their chair.”

MK Meir Purush He said: “As someone who was in the Jerusalem municipality and a member of the municipality for 13 years, I can tell you that more than once I encountered very, very serious problems for people who had an anomaly in construction, and they asked to find a way to connect this construction to electricity, water, this phone was already luxurious. “And the law is not possible. I was told that the attorney general objects, that I must not train something like this that was built without a permit.”

He added: “I say that when MK Walid Taha comes up with such a bill, we should encourage it, we should support it, we should vote for this bill. There is no such thing as the law being implemented only among the Arabs. This law will work with the help of the name in the Jewish population as well. “Why not? After all, the poor are everywhere.”

MK Bezalel Smutrich: “This is a program that encourages chaos, gives a boost to all construction criminals in the Arab sector who are deliberately building illegally and will continue to build illegally to take over land, and not to pay property taxes. Ayelet Shaked has completely surrendered. This is the law of anarchy and criminality To the supporters of anti-Zionist terrorism in the Islamic Movement. “

MK Shlomo Krai He added: “Trumpeldor drowned the trial.” Instead of let it pass, let the Jewish plow pass to the last furrow where our border will cross, “the Bennett Abbas government coined a new trial – where the last illegal Muslim hut will be established, where our sovereignty will end. I can not understand how the Israeli government “Did the aunt fall among this sovereignty? Does not the young settlement built in authority and authority deserve at least equal treatment as those who took over the lands of the Land of Israel?”

Ayelet Shaked, Zeev Elkin and Avigdor Lieberman (Photo: Mark Israel Salem)Ayelet Shaked, Zeev Elkin and Avigdor Lieberman (Photo: Mark Israel Salem)

Members of the joint list also commented on the bill. MK Ahmed Tibi He said: “Electricity is an essential commodity. There is no situation in which in one of the European countries they punish people by not connecting to electricity, because there is no occupancy permit, what is called Form 4. Only here decades ago this amendment was introduced as a punishment, and this sanction has the opposite effect. Connect or buy a generator, or connect a pirated connection through the neighbors, sometimes these two options cause disasters, one in Beit Safafa and one in Isfahan, people were killed.

“I brought a bill, a temporary order, the Electricity Law, which connected thousands of houses. What was the purpose of the law? To sever the connection between Form 4 and the Planning and Building Law, which is a discriminatory ideological law against the Arab public. Unfortunately, my law was blocked. This one, which restores the connection between Form 4 and the Planning and Building Law. “

MK Ayman Odeh He added: “I turn to the members of RAAM, and tell them, ask them: Why did you vote against the Electricity Law that we brought? Why did you hurt 90% of the Arab citizens who need, so much need to connect houses to electricity. You said you would bring your own bill. A week ago we said that your bill would solve a problem of less than 5%. “I now want to correct and say that your proposal will solve no more than 3% of homes that do not have electricity.”

The Bedouin diaspora in the Negev (Photo: Flash 90)The Bedouin diaspora in the Negev (Photo: Flash 90)

Later, the Knesset will vote on the opposition’s motion of no confidence in the government. In addition, the following bills will be put to the vote: a bill to amend the Criminal Procedure Ordinance (arrest and search) (grounds for search without a court order), an explosives bill, a planning and construction bill (a plan for earthquake resistance and a plan that includes a section Public), Execution Bill (repeal of driver’s license restriction).

Later on, the Knesset will discuss the closure of the Ministry of Community Strengthening and Advancement and the transfer of the Community Security Authority to the Ministry of Internal Security.

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