The Knesset approved on first reading: The fines for violators of the Corona regulations will be increased

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The bill proposes to aggravate the punishment imposed on those who violate certain restrictions established by the Special Powers Act or by the Public Health Ordinance. It is also proposed to expand the basket of means available to law enforcement agencies in the act of enforcing restrictions under the Special Powers Act.

Documentation of enforcement throughout the country in the tight closure // Archive photo: Moshe Bo Simhon, Gil Kramer, Yoni Rickner, Newsenders and Shmuel Buharis

It is proposed to increase the maximum amounts of administrative fines that can be determined for administrative offenses from NIS 5,000 to NIS 10,000. Among other things, it is proposed to increase the fines for operating a place open to the public or a business, by way of opening it to the public, in violation of the prohibition on operating as stated in regulations, and for violating restrictions on party, conference, ceremony (including religious ceremony), festival, organized trip, sporting event , An entertainment show or an art show.

It is also proposed to increase the fines for the operation of an institution that conducts educational activities, by way of opening it to students, trainees or patients in violation of the ban on its operation. It should be noted that the intention is to set different fines in the regulations according to the extent of the violation and the intensity of the danger posed by it, so that an institution that opens its gates and conducts study activities for a larger number of students will receive a higher fine from institutions with a relatively low number of students.

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, who presented the proposal, said he expects MKs from the coalition and the opposition on this issue to overwhelmingly support the bill. “It amazes me to see people disobeying, endangering themselves and the health of those around them. “Therefore, we need to pass the law that increases the fines and helps us in deterrence,” he explained at the end of the hearing.

“We shouted in real time”

The deputy prime minister, Defense Minister Bnei Gantz, said at the hearing: “I do not demand equal enforcement because I am against the ultra-Orthodox, but because I am for them. Unfortunately, Netanyahu’s political campaign is costing us lives.”

MK Naftali Bennett said: “I turn to Miri Regev and Netanyahu, how for God’s sake did you allow a highway of all the mutations in the world into the State of Israel? We warned in real time, we shouted in real time, we said: ‘Take control of Ben Gurion Airport’. In real time, not in retrospect. We said: ‘Take control, check people before they board the plane, upon landing in the country’. In Dubai they did it, in the Seychelles they did it , And all over the world have done it. And since then, another 1,000 have died, and you dare to stand here and say, ‘Oh, how wonderful everything is, let’s learn from us.’ What will we learn from you? Shame and disgrace. “A thousand killed because of your failure. Go home. The State of Israel deserves serious leadership that cares about the citizens.”

“Police sow fear and terror in the streets”

MK Yaakov Tessler referred to the difficult clashes between police officers and members of the ultra-Orthodox sector: “The vast majority of the ultra-Orthodox public is a law-abiding person, who adheres to health guidelines. The harsh images we have witnessed in recent days are of fringe boys, a minority of the camp fringe. A minority we have been warning about for months. These are the consequences of closing the education system. What we now see in the streets is a direct result of leaving boys at home for long periods of idleness and boredom. But instead of the police ruling the order on the street, and dealing with the riotous handful, they punish the entire public, whose routine of life has been destroyed and replaced with life in a battlefield.

A bus was stoned and sofas were set on fire in the streets: the riots in Bnei Brak // Photo: Shimon Baruch, information from the Telegram area

“Police are sowing fear and terror in the streets with live ammunition, stun grenades and severe violence,” Tessler said. “Some children face fears in recent nights. Instead of standing up and apologizing to the great men of Israel, who have been expressing their pain for many months, what might happen in the absence of educational institutions. Politicians, who scratch the blocking percentage, allow themselves to be rude and bold against the great leaders of Israel. “Carrying day by day, hour by hour, the burden of the generation on the tablet of their hearts. Where is the impudence? Where is the strength?”

MK Avigdor Lieberman: “The one who rules the State of Israel is extremist clerics and activists of Shas and Torah Judaism. The current prime minister is Yanki Kanievsky, Rabbi Kanievsky’s grandson, and the prime minister is barely a reserve prime minister, Yanki Kanievsky, so the reality we are experiencing today, the same outbreak of violence and the same rampage – those responsible for these riots are Prime Minister Netanyahu and Shas activists and Torah Judaism, who not only do not bother to condemn the violence but on the contrary, back up the rioters. “If the prime minister had exercised all the powers, issued a closure order to those institutions and cut them off from the state budget, these things would have worked better than all the police.”

Participated in the preparation of the article: Meital Yasur Beit-Or

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