חוק התכנון והבנייה (תיקון מס' 151), התשפ"ד-2024Law on Planning and Construction (Amendment No. 151), 2024 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

Amendment No. 151 established several changes in the composition of the planning institutions: in the National Council for Planning and Building, a government representative was added, as well as two public representatives – one from the Arab population, including the Druze and Circassian communities, and the other from the Haredi population. In addition, it was determined that the alternate for the representative of engineers and architects will be from among an organization representing contractors. It is also proposed to broaden the possibility of appointing a representative from institutions of higher education so that a representative from higher education institutions other than the Technion may also be appointed. In the National Infrastructure Committee, a representative of the Minister of the Negev, Galilee and National Resilience was added, as well as a representative of an organization dealing with social and welfare issues, and an observer from the Nature and Parks Authority. In the district committees, a representative of the Ministry of the Negev, Galilee and National Resilience and a representative of an organization dealing with social welfare were added. In the local committees, representatives with advisory opinions were added. In the Committee for the Protection of Agricultural Land, representatives of the Ministry of the Negev, Galilee and National Resilience and a representative of higher education institutions were added, and in the Committee for the Protection of the Coastal Environment, a representative of the Ministry of the Negev, Galilee and National Resilience and a representative of local authorities were added. It was further determined that in all planning institutions, the term of office of members of the planning institution (except for certain officeholders) may be extended for two additional terms instead of just one, as was previously the case.

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What was said in the plenum

The law deals with changing the composition of the planning institutions (the National Council, the Committee for National Infrastructure, and the district and local committees), adding to them new government representatives – of the Minister for the Negev, Galilee and National Resilience and of the Minister of Settlement and National Missions – alongside additional public and civil society representatives added as a balancing step. The debate mainly concerned the question of whether the addition serves professional planning and a balance between interests or constitutes a politicization of the planning institutions in favor of sectoral and demographic interests, while a large part of the speeches were devoted to topics not directly related to the law, such as the war, the hostages, and economic and security criticism of the government.

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An automatic summary of the plenum transcripts: the debate on the bill at every reading it was voted on. Arguments are given as the speakers made them; this is not an assessment. The list of speakers comes from the transcript, without a model. A very long debate: every speech was shortened to the same length before summarising. Transcripts of the sittings: 1, 2

Reservations to the second reading

26 reservations were filed: proposed changes to the text the committee brought to the second and third reading.

The reservations mainly seek to change the composition of the planning institutions referred to in the law, among other things by adding representatives on behalf of the Jewish National Fund, the Nature and Parks Authority, academic institutions in the field of ecology and environment, civil society organizations and local government, as well as increasing the representation of the Arab population in local authorities.

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By faction

• Yesh Atid opposition · 10 reservations · 24 members
• New Hope coalition · 8 reservations · 2 members
• National Unity coalition · 8 reservations · 5 members
• Labor opposition · 7 reservations · 4 members
• Hadash–Ta'al opposition · 2 reservations · 5 members

A joint reservation counts for every faction whose members filed it.

Asked to speak: Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu), Oded Forer (Yisrael Beytenu), Evgeny Sova (Yisrael Beytenu), Sharon Nir (Yisrael Beytenu), Yulia Malinovsky (Yisrael Beytenu), Hamad Amar (Yisrael Beytenu)

Proposers and reservation numbers are extracted automatically from the committee version, and the count is checked against the numbers printed in it. The descriptions are an automatic summary. Committee version for the second and third reading (PDF)