חוק שירות לאומי-אזרחי (תיקון מס' 6), התשפ"ד-2024Law on Civic National Service (Amendment No. 6), 2024 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The National-Civic Service Law, 2014, is a temporary provision that regulates the service of those liable for security service who are graduates of yeshivas and Haredi educational institutions who have reached the age of 21, to serve in national-civic service as an alternative to their service in the Israel Defense Forces. Service under the Law is carried out on the basis of two tracks: the first, civic-social service under one of the fields or positions specified in the Law, including homeland security and home front defense, health, welfare and education; the second, civic-security service in one of the specified bodies, including the Israel Police, the Prisons Service and the National Fire and Rescue Authority. The Law also includes provisions regarding the performance of the service, the duration and scope of the service, service conditions, and the regulation of the service within the operating body, including its obligations. In addition, the Law established the Authority for National-Civic Service, which is responsible for operating the national-civic service in accordance with the provisions of the Law, alongside enabling the minister, who is a member of the government authorized to do so, to authorize, from among the authority's employees, inspectors to supervise the implementation of the Law's provisions, including regarding the nature and quality of the national-civic service. Since the validity of the arrangement enabling the deferral of service for yeshiva students expired on 30 June 2023, and with it the validity of the National-Civic Service Law also expired, and in order to continue to enable those whose service had already been deferred to integrate into national-civic service, the validity of the National-Civic Service Law was extended until 30 June 2024. Under Amendment No. 6, its validity was extended until 30 June 2025.

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What was said in the plenum

The bill extends by one additional year, until 30 June 2025, the validity of the temporary provision regulating the service of yeshiva students and graduates of Haredi educational institutions within the framework of the National-Civic Service, after the arrangement set in law expired following a Supreme Court ruling. The discussion in practice included little direct reference to the amendment itself, and most speeches dealt with the war, the hostages, the issue of Haredi conscription into the IDF, and criticism of the government, with only some speakers addressing the substance of the law and the role of the National-Civic Service.

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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

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

The reservations to Section 1 seek to move up the law's effective date and make it conditional on progress in legislation regarding the conscription of yeshiva students, as well as to transfer responsibility and oversight of the national-civic service to the Ministry of Defense and to make its start conditional on various approvals from security officials.

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By faction

• Yisrael Beytenu opposition · 5 reservations · 6 members
• 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)

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