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The Knesset Joint Committee on the Nationality Bill voted on Tuesday to approve the controversy of the draft law
Article 7, which was rewritten as a result of an agreement between
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Education Naftali Bennett Sunday.
Article 7 authorizes the establishment of "separate communities" that critics consider racist. The new version of the bill states that Israel "considers the development of the Jewish colony as a national value and will act to encourage and promote its establishment".
MPs Ohana and Slomiansky vote on the bill (Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg)
The current version of the bill Bill was agreed by various legal bodies and by Bayit Yehudi and Likud parties. Some sections were approved by the Joint Committee on the Nationality Bill on Monday before the vote in the Knesset Plenary.
The committee, led by MK Amir Ohana (Likud), concluded the vote on all the reservations that were raised and the revisions will now be submitted before the final vote on the article.
Joint Committee on the Nationality Bill (Photo: Yoav Dudkevitch)
the committee voted to approve all other sections of the bill. Article 5 states that the state will be open to Jewish immigration. Article 6 concerns the link between the state and the Jewish diaspora as well as the importance of preserving Jewish culture and history.
The first four articles were approved last Tuesday, including Article 4 which aimed to eliminate the status accorded to Arabic as the official language of the state.
The bill was originally scheduled to be pbaded by the Knesset Plenum on Monday, but because of the reservations of Haredi deputies who wish to consult with their rabbinical advisers on several sections of the bill, and the fact that the reservations on L & # 39, Article 7 is only treated Tuesday, the bill is now scheduled for a vote in the Knesset on Wednesday.
The coalition is eager to move
the legislation this week because it is the last week of the Knesset's summer session.
Smotrich; Nizri (Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg)
Regarding the tension created by the bill, "There are many democratic countries in the world, but no other country is democratic at the same time. and Jewish. We are unique in this sense. Tensions are arising, "said Deputy Attorney General Raz Nizri.
Nizri rejected criticism of the bill by the Arab deputies of the joint list, telling them: "When you said that" the Jewish establishment does not mean the Arabs, "we do not say it absolutely I believe in this as a lawyer and as a citizen, and as it is written in Article 1 c-it is unique to the Jewish people. "19659002]
" But I can not argue with the fact that it creates discrimination. I do not say this apologetically, "said Nizri.
Earlier, Nizri said that as a lawyer, he sees some sections of the bill as discriminatory, angering Bayit Yehudi MK Bezalel Smotrich.
"Your words do not mean anything," said Smotrich before apologizing to Nizri for his explosion.
MK Yariv Levin (Likud), the main defender of the law, told Ynet: "There has been no intervention regarding the basic laws to date," said Levin, referring to the next law Project. of Justice.
"There is no court standing above what it calls the constitution, and it decides that it also determines what are the basic values and laws," said Levin.
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