חוק הביטוח הלאומי (תיקון מס' 251), התשפ"ה–2024Law National Insurance (Amendment No. 251), 2024 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

It was established that during the period in which a child convicted of a security offense under Section 326(c) of the National Insurance Law, namely a severe terrorism offense under the Counter-Terrorism Law, is imprisoned due to his conviction, his parents will not be paid benefits under Chapter C of the National Insurance Law, including child allowance and a study grant, as well as dependent supplements for the child – regarding work injury victims' allowance, disability allowance, senior citizen allowance and survivors' allowance, and supplements for the child for income support benefit or payment under the Alimony (Guarantee of Payment) Law. In addition, during the imprisonment period, the child will not be counted among the parent's children for the purpose of calculating such benefits. The provisions of this Law will apply to a person who is imprisoned on or after the date this Law comes into effect.

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Sponsors

Ariel Kallner

What was said in the plenum

The bill stipulates that during the imprisonment of a minor convicted of a severe terrorism offense, child allowance and benefit supplements will not be paid to his parents for him, as an attempt to reinstate an arrangement legislated in 2015 and struck down by the Supreme Court in 2021 by a majority of five to four on the grounds of a violation of equality; the House discussion focused mainly on the question of whether there is a substantive difference between criminal offenses and nationalist terrorism that justifies discrimination in National Insurance payments, and on criticism of the Supreme Court's intervention in such laws, alongside reservations that distinguishing between types of offenders violates equality and that the bill is one-sided and ignores Jewish terrorism.

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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. Transcripts of the sittings: 1, 2, 3 · write to the author

Reservations to the second reading

1 reservation was filed: proposed changes to the text the committee brought to the second and third reading.

The only reservation filed to Section 1 sought to require the National Insurance Institute to report to the Labor and Welfare Committee, once a month (or alternatively once every three months), on the amounts of benefits that were not paid in the period preceding the report.

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By faction

• National Unity opposition · 1 reservation · 8 members
• Labor opposition · 1 reservation · 4 members
• Yesh Atid opposition · 1 reservation · 24 members

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

Asked to speak: Ariel Kallner (Likud), Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionism), Ayman Odeh (Hadash–Ta'al), Ahmad Tibi (Hadash–Ta'al), Aida Touma Sliman (Hadash–Ta'al), Ofer Cassif (Hadash–Ta'al), Youssef Atauna (Hadash–Ta'al)

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) · write to the author