The Labor and Welfare Committee, headed by MK Yisrael Eichler, has begun discussing a bill proposed by MK Ofir Katz, according to which all social rights would be automatically permanently deprived of anyone convicted of murder or attempted murder on nationalist grounds.
The bill relates both to and after the period of imprisonment and to the lifetime of the person, and also includes benefits granted to the family of the person convicted for him or his children, except for the benefit for a disabled child.
At the beginning of the discussion, MK Ofir Katz said: "The State of Israel pays those who come to harm and murder its citizens with the tax money of those citizens. A terrorist who murdered a Jew can receive today: a disability pension, a long-term care benefit, a survivor's allowance, survivors' allowance, a child education grant, a maternity allowance, a maternity allowance, a child allowance, a pregnancy benefit benefit, savings for each child, income support, and much more. It's madness. What country in the world behaves like this in the face of those who seek to murder its citizens? I am very determined to enact this law and other additions, with the main goal being that they will not receive a shekel – during the incarceration, after the incarceration, whether he died in a terror attack or not. I will pass this law even if there are objections, because it is justice and it is the right thing to do."
Committee Chair MK Yisrael Eichler expressed support for the bill and said, "I don't think there is any other country in the world that would accept such a situation, in which Supreme Court justices come to examine the conditions of those who tried to murder its citizens and not other prisoners, and that the state continues to pay them pensions afterwards."
At the hearing, it was reported that according to the existing law, anyone who is imprisoned for more than 3 months for any offense is already deprived of all benefits for the duration of the prison term, with the exception of the child allowance and the disabled child benefit. As for the period after imprisonment, the existing law denies 50% of the benefits paid to someone who has been convicted of terrorist offenses since 2007 and sentenced to more than 10 years in prison.
In light of this, MK Katz clarified that the purpose of the current proposal is to extend the revocation to all benefits, with the exception of the Disabled Child Benefit, and to revoke 100% of them, not 50%.
* Kikar Hashabbat contributed to this article.
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