The Knesset plenum convened today (Sunday) for a plenary session and voted in the second and third readings in favor of passing the Income Law. The plenum will also discuss proposals for the agenda by Knesset members on the issue of “government failures in operating Ben Gurion Airport during the Corona period.
Speaker of the Knesset, Yariv Levin, Opened the discussion and criticized Defense Minister Gantz: “I have in my heart the hope in which we are convening today. Since Benny Gantz intends to come to the plenum and speak in law I prefer to say things before him. The discussion takes place after the consent of all House factions and I want to thank all the heads “The House factions and in particular the heads of the opposition factions, and in particular the heads of the joint list faction, for finding it appropriate to give their consent and thus allow us all to be rescued from the situation that unfortunately the alternative prime minister put the entire Knesset into.”
Levin later attacked Gantz in his face: “It was not like this that during a break an ultimatum was placed on my desk as you did, with my lord holding the throats of the citizens of Israel and the throats of both the Knesset. And preserving the right of the minority who opposes the law and wants to be present in the plenum. “
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Ganz He replied to Levin: “I expected from you except stateliness, but in life there are disappointments. I know what was here before I entered the speech. I understand the inaugural speech. How did it happen that a party you are a senior for months and a half blocks this process, and we have to act as it stops. “For months and a half, this bill has been ready in the government. And you did not worry that it would come up in time and as required, and that is a pity.”
“MKs who say it is a law against the ultra-Orthodox or Arabs – it is not against the ultra-Orthodox or against the Arabs. It is a law designed to save human lives. Most of the ultra-Orthodox citizens and most of the Arab citizens are law-abiding and we are fighting for the health of the residents of Bnei Brak just like the residents of Jaffa, Ramla and Lod. Everywhere dead are buried. We’ll have to go back to the traffic light layout“, Gantz added.
Yariv Levin, Bnei Gantz (Photo: Shmulik Grossman, Knesset Spokeswoman)the minister of Health, July Edelstein, He said: “This law is directed against criminals who violate health guidelines. The fact that they are harming themselves, I want to say it is their business. Disrupting them. But unfortunately it is not suicide. You say ‘I beep’ and harm all the people around. In the disease state there is no such animal Differential management. As of this morning, 9 percent of the localities in the country are green. It turns out that 91 percent are red, orange and yellow. I heard proposals to open education in green localities. An interesting proposal, only I have news. Most green localities do not even have a school because of their size. “There are almost no green cities.”
“As for leaving the quarantine – there will be. Every day we store or add, we will be with hundreds of thousands more vaccinated with two vaccines as required. As of today, the government will have two proposals – to extend the quarantine, or open it all. I say with full responsibility: I will not play any games We’re in this whole situation because before that we asked for a closure for two weeks. We went through a hell of uncertainty, yes opening not opening, because it was necessary to cut the proposal of the Ministry of Health by three or four days. Why? I do not know. I announce that there will be two proposals. “Or opening the whole economy. I don’t like anyone – they will take responsibility once. Whoever wants to play and open will take responsibility. If we open the whole economy, we will see the results. Let’s see ourselves without closure.”
MK Ahmed Tibi, Chairman of the joint list faction, spoke and asked at the end of his speech to set up a commission of inquiry to examine the “racist over-enforcement” on the subject of the corona being carried out against the Arab population. He read data showing that the number of fines in Arab localities .
MK Shlomo Krai He also attacked Gantz from the Likud: “Bnei Gantz causes the deaths of the citizens of Israel. Blue and white have already been commemorated and she wants to drag hundreds more people to the grave with her.”
“Bnei Gantz causes the deaths of Israeli citizens,” the MK accused @shlomo_karhi: “Blue and white have already been erected and she wants to drag hundreds more people to the grave with her”@gantzbe @ Kachollavan19 pic.twitter.com/EnEiuDPHbW
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As you may recall, on Wednesday the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee convened to discuss the Fines Law, following the explosion that took place the day before in contacts with “Blue and White”. A new wording was presented to the committee members, according to the outline presented by the coalition’s chairman, MK Miki Zohar, to which Blue and White strongly opposes. The wording in question was agreed upon during a consultation between Minister Yaakov Litzman and MKs Moshe Gafni and Yaakov Asher with Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin and the Prime Minister’s Office.
Last week, the Knesset plenum approved the bill to increase fines and close businesses and educational institutions that operate in violation of the closure restrictions on first reading, by a majority of 52 supporters against 23 opponents. Among other things, the proposal includes increasing the amount of fines from NIS 5,000 to NIS 10,000, as well as giving authority to police officers or a district doctor to close institutions that operate in violation of the guidelines.
Meanwhile, MK Ilan Gilon (Meretz) returned to office at the Mishkan today and was sworn in, after entering the Knesset following the resignation of former Labor chairman Amir Peretz, in memory of the parties’ slumped run.