חוק לתיקון פקודת סדר הדין הפלילי (מעצר וחיפוש) (מס' 17), התשפ"ד–2024Law to Amend the Criminal Procedure (Arrest and Search) Ordinance (No. 17), 2024 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

Under the Law for Combating Illegal Weapons (Legislative Amendment and Temporary Provision), 2023, an amendment was made to the Criminal Procedure Ordinance (Arrest and Search) [New Version], 1969 (hereinafter – the Ordinance), under which two new grounds were added for conducting a search without a judicial warrant, in order to provide the police with effective enforcement tools to eradicate the phenomenon of illegal weapons. The first ground added allows a police officer to conduct a search without a judicial warrant if there is a reasonable suspicion that a weapon or a substantial part of a weapon, which may serve as evidence of an offense, is located at a place, and if, due to the immediate need to conduct the search, a warrant cannot be obtained. The second ground added allows the police to conduct a search of recordings or a camera that may serve as evidence of an offense punishable by at least ten years' imprisonment, including a weapons offense, an offense of shooting at a residential area, or an offense of extortion by threats. Regarding both of these grounds, it was determined that the search will only be conducted with written authorization from a police officer with the rank of chief superintendent or higher, which will include the circumstances and reasons for the need for an immediate search without a warrant. It was further determined that if, during the search, an item unrelated to the offense for which the authorization to conduct the search was given is discovered, the police officer may seize the item and bring it before a judge, who will decide what is to be done with it. These arrangements were established as a temporary provision for a period of one year, commencing 15 May 2023, in order to allow for an examination of the proposed arrangements. Under Amendment No. 17 to the Ordinance, it was determined that the aforementioned temporary provision would be extended by one additional year, until 30 June 2025.

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What was said in the plenum

The bill seeks to extend a temporary provision granting the police (and military police) the authority to conduct a search of a home without a judge's warrant on suspicion of illegal weapons or documentation/a camera related to a serious crime, with the aim of combating crime and illegal weapons, primarily in Arab society. The debate focused on the actual effectiveness of the authority versus concerns about harm to individual rights and its use without judicial review, and the committee decided to extend the arrangement for only one year instead of the two years requested, with enhanced reporting requirements.

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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 · write to the author

Reservations to the second reading

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

The reservations submitted by the Yesh Atid group are intended to change the start dates set in the law and to set earlier dates than those proposed.

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By faction

• Yesh Atid opposition · 2 reservations · 24 members

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

Asked to speak: 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), Aryeh Machluf Deri (Shas), Yinon Azoulay (Shas), Yosef Taieb (Shas), Avraham Bezalel (Shas), Yonatan Mashriki (Shas), Erez Malul (Shas), Simon Moshiashvili (Shas), 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) · write to the author