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Government bill · 24th Knesset · published as law 28 December 2021

חוק שירות ביטחון (הצבת יוצאי צבא במשטרת ישראל ובשירות בתי הסוהר) (תיקוני חקיקה) (הוראות שעה), התשפ"ב–2021Law on Security Service (Placement of Military Veterans in the Israel Police and in the Prison Service) (legislative amendments) (temporary provisions), 2021 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Status: התקבלה בקריאה שלישית

Topics: Military and defense*, Police and internal security · * from the Knesset's official law classification · no asterisk — automatically from words in the title

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The Defense Service Law (Assignment of Military Discharged Personnel to the Israel Police and the Prison Service) (Legislative Amendments) (Temporary Provision) Law, 2021 was approved in second and third reading on 28 December 2021. The Law extends two temporary provisions for an additional year, until 31 December 2022: One temporary provision regulates the assignment and service of soldiers in units of the Israel Police ("Shaham") whose main activity relates to the security of the state and its residents. This is in addition to the service of soldiers in the Border Police, which is regulated as a permanent provision in the Defense Service Law. The second temporary provision regulates the assignment and service of soldiers in prisons and in wings where security prisoners are held.

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Hebrew original

חוק שירות ביטחון (הצבת יוצאי צבא במשטרת ישראל ובשירות בתי הסוהר) (תיקוני חקיקה) (הוראת שעה), התשפ"ב-2021 אושר בקריאה השנייה והשלישית ביום 28/12/2021. החוק מאריך בשנה נוספת, עד ה-31/12/2022 שתי הוראות שעה: הוראת שעה אחת מסדירה את הצבתם ואת שירותם של חיילים ביחידות של משטרת ישראל ("שח"ם") שעיקר פעילותן קשור לביטחון המדינה ותושביה. זאת, בנוסף לשירותם של חיילים במשמר הגבול, המוסדר כהוראה קבועה בחוק שירות ביטחון. הוראת השעה השנייה מסדירה את הצבתם ואת שירותם של חיילים בבתי סוהר ובאגפים בהם מוחזקים אסירים ביטחוניים.

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What was said in the plenum

The law extends temporary provisions allowing the deployment of soldiers required for mandatory service in units of the Israel Police and the Prison Service, instead of service in regular IDF units. The discussion focused on the approved extension period (one year only, instead of the three years requested), and on fundamental questions regarding the deployment of conscripted soldiers outside the IDF and the framework for their care, against the backdrop of the sexual harassment affair at Gilboa Prison.

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Hebrew original

החוק מאריך הוראות שעה המאפשרות הצבת חיילים הנדרשים לשירות חובה ביחידות של משטרת ישראל ושירות בתי הסוהר, במקום שירות ביחידות צה״ל רגילות. הדיון התמקד בתקופת ההארכה שאושרה (שנה אחת בלבד במקום שלוש שנים שהתבקשו), ובשאלות עקרוניות בדבר הצבת חיילים מגויסים מחוץ לצה״ל ומעטפת הטיפול בהם, על רקע פרשת ההטרדות המיניות בכלא גלבוע.

Arguments for

  • There is a practical need to urgently extend the temporary provisions so as not to leave the Police and the Prison Service understaffed when the existing arrangement expires.
    Ram Ben Barak (Yesh Atid)
  • The Israel Police, the Prison Service, the Mossad and the Shin Bet are bodies of a security nature in essence, which there is justification and even need to reinforce with military manpower, similar to the existing model in the Border Police.
    Ram Ben Barak (Yesh Atid)
  • The shortened extension to one year only, combined with a commitment to continue examining the issues raised and to build an orderly response (such as a contact and care framework for soldiers deployed outside the IDF) within a fixed timetable, makes it possible to resolve the problems that were revealed without harming the ongoing functioning of the bodies.
    Ram Ben Barak (Yesh Atid), Yakov Margi (Shas)

Arguments against

  • There is no justification for deploying soldiers who enlisted in the IDF to units external to it that are not under its responsibility, such as the police and the Prison Service.
    Ram Ben Barak (Yesh Atid)
  • Soldiers deployed outside the IDF remain without a full military support framework, including the ability to approach the Soldiers' Complaints Commissioner on issues such as commanders' treatment, payments, and sexual harassment.
    Ram Ben Barak (Yesh Atid)
  • The systemic failure revealed in the sexual harassment affair at Gilboa Prison should be thoroughly investigated before continuing to operate the arrangement, rather than settling for an investigation of the individual prisoner.
    Yakov Margi (Shas)
  • The law serves improper purposes, such as using soldiers to act against settlers or placing them in prisons before the investigation into the events at Gilboa Prison has been exhausted.
    Avi Maoz (Religious Zionism)
  • The induction of IDF soldiers into the police and the Israel Prison Service effectively serves to suppress Palestinian prisoners and Arab populations in mixed cities such as Lod, and therefore the law should be opposed and voted down.
    Ahmad Tibi (Joint List)
Who spoke (9)
MemberFactionReadingsSpeechesIn the final vote
Ram Ben BarakYesh Atid coalitionThird reading2for
Yakov MargiShas oppositionThird reading1against
Avi MaozReligious Zionism oppositionThird reading1against
May GolanLikud oppositionThird reading1against
David AmsalemLikud oppositionThird reading1against
Ofir KatzLikud oppositionThird reading1against
Meir PorushUnited Torah Judaism oppositionThird reading1against
Ahmad TibiJoint List oppositionThird reading1against
Chili Tropper—Third reading1no record

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. Transcripts of the sittings: 1, 2

Reservations to the second reading

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

The reservations were intended to change the law's period of validity, to set restrictions, conditions and committee approvals for the deployment of military conscripts in the police and the Prison Service, and to define differently the purpose of the law and the roles of the deployed conscripts.

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Hebrew original

ההסתייגויות נועדו לשנות את תקופת תוקפו של החוק, לקבוע הגבלות, תנאים ואישורי ועדות להצבת יוצאי צבא במשטרה ובשירות בתי הסוהר, ולהגדיר באופן שונה את מטרת החוק ואת תפקידי יוצאי הצבא המוצבים.

By faction

A joint reservation counts for every faction whose members filed it. 2 proposers were not matched to a member: listed under the groups, not counted by faction.

Who proposed what
  • שלמה קרעי · 40
    The reservations sought to shorten the validity of the law, to limit and condition the placement of military discharged personnel in positions within the Police and prisons, numerical limits, committee approvals, and conditions relating to separation between genders and between security prisoners. Some of the proposals overlap with those of other groups.
    Sections: לפני סעיף 1, לסעיף 1, לאחרי סעיף 1, לסעיף 2, לאחרי סעיף 2
  • אורית מלכה סטרוק · 40
    Reservations sought to shorten the validity period of the law, and to restrict and condition the deployment of military conscripts in the police and prisons by roles, numerical limits, committee approvals and conditions related to separation between the sexes and between security prisoners.
    Sections: לפני סעיף 1, לסעיף 1, לאחרי סעיף 1, לסעיף 2, לאחרי סעיף 2
  • שמחה רוטמן · 40
    Reservations sought to shorten the validity period of the law, and to restrict and condition the deployment of military conscripts in the police and prisons by roles, numerical limits, committee approvals and conditions related to separation between the sexes and between security prisoners.
    Sections: לפני סעיף 1, לסעיף 1, לאחרי סעיף 1, לסעיף 2, לאחרי סעיף 2
  • יואב קיש · 40
    Reservations sought to shorten the validity period of the law, and to restrict and condition the deployment of military conscripts in the police and prisons by roles, numerical limits, committee approvals and conditions related to separation between the sexes and between security prisoners.
    Sections: לפני סעיף 1, לסעיף 1, לאחרי סעיף 1, לסעיף 2, לאחרי סעיף 2
  • דוד אמסלם · 40
    Reservations sought to shorten the validity period of the law, and to restrict and condition the deployment of military conscripts in the police and prisons by roles, numerical limits, committee approvals and conditions related to separation between the sexes and between security prisoners.
    Sections: לפני סעיף 1, לסעיף 1, לאחרי סעיף 1, לסעיף 2, לאחרי סעיף 2
  • קבוצת ש״ס · 12
    The reservations sought to extend the validity of the law until 2027 and to limit further extensions to a special majority, and to define the purpose of the sections as correcting failures of the Police and the Prison Service.
    Sections: לפני סעיף 1, לסעיף 1, לאחרי סעיף 1, לסעיף 2, לאחרי סעיף 2
    Aryeh Machluf Deri, Yakov Margi, Yoav Ben Tzur, Michael Malkieli, Haim Biton, Moshe Arbel, Yinon Azoulay, Moshe Abutbul, Uriel Busso
  • קבוצת יהדות התורה · 12
    The reservations sought to extend the validity of the law until 2027 and to limit further extensions to a special majority, and to define the purpose of the sections as correcting failures of the Police and the Prison Service.
    Sections: לפני סעיף 1, לסעיף 1, לאחרי סעיף 1, לסעיף 2, לאחרי סעיף 2
    Moshe Gafni, Yakov Litzman, Uri Maklev, Meir Porush, Yaakov Asher, Israel Eichler, Yitzhak Ze'ev Pindrus
  • קבוצת הליכוד · 7
    Reservations criticized the purpose of the law and sought to declare that its role is to disguise a failed handling of crime and the prison guards scandal and to exploit IDF soldiers.
    Sections: לפני סעיף 1, לאחרי סעיף 1
    Benjamin Netanyahu, Yuli Yoel Edelstein, Israel Katz, Miri Miriam Regev, Yariv Levin, Yoav Gallant, Nir Barkat, Gila Gamliel, Avi Dicter, Galit Distel Atbaryan, Haim Katz, Eli Cohen, Tzachi Hanegbi, Ofir Akunis, Yuval Steinitz, David Amsalem, Desta Gadi Yevarkan, Amir Ohana, Ofir Katz, חווה אתי עטייה, Yoav Kisch, David Bitan, Keren Barak, Shlomo Karhi, Makhluf Miki Zohar, Orly Levi-Abekasis, Kathrin Shitrit, Fateen Mulla, May Golan
  • קבוצת הציונות הדתית · 7
    Reservations sought to declare that the purpose of the law is to establish an inflammatory theory of the Minister of Public Security and to disguise a failed handling of crime and the prison guards scandal.
    Sections: לפני סעיף 1, לאחרי סעיף 1
    Bezalel Smotrich, מיכל וולדיגר, Itamar Ben Gvir, Simcha Rothman, Orit Malka Strock, Avi Maoz, Ofir Sofer

Asked to speak: Ayman Odeh (Joint List), Ahmad Tibi (Joint List), Samy Abu Shahadeh (Joint List), Aida Touma Sliman (Joint List), Osama Saadi (Joint List), Ofer Cassif (Joint List), Yossi Shain (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)

Reservations, sections and other votes (71)

In order. Votes on reservations and individual sections are shown separately from the vote on the bill as a whole.

Source: bill page in the Knesset legislation database ↗