The Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved this evening (Tuesday) the compromise proposed by the committee's chairman, Minister Avi Nissenkorn, according to which fines for violating the Corona guidelines will be raised uniformly from 5,000 NIS to 10,000 NIS.
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The discussion on the fines law took place in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation, without a prior meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the leaders of the United Torah Judaism party, Yaakov Litzman and Moshe Gafni.
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Sources in the Haredi factions said that the prime minister is angry with the Haredi members of Knesset because Litzman said that Yamina Chairman Naftali Bennett could be an alternative to Netanyahu.
During the discussion, Raz Nizri, the Deputy Attorney General, said: "The law currently does not have the authority to close educational institutions. We will have to decide on this. We are not singling this out for one sector or another, but for educational institutions in general.".
At the end of the discussion, the committee, as mentioned, decided on a compromise: increasing the flat fine to 10,000 NIS.
Two ministers opposed it: Minister of Religious Affairs Yaakov Avitan, and Minister of Water Resources Ze'ev Elkin, who claimed that the amount was too low.
However, even after reaching a compromise, the United Torah Judaism faction is preparing to vote against the law when it comes to the Knesset plenum for approval - if prior coordination is not made with the faction.
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Deputy Minister of Transportation Uri Maklev said of the ministerial committee's decision: "The public is currently in a difficult situation, businesses are collapsing and the fines are already high by any standard. Making such a decision today, precisely when the public is striving to get out of the crisis and morbidity is decreasing, is inappropriate and we will oppose it.".
""Unfortunately, the language between the government and the citizen is done through fines and not through information. The store owners and merchants bring a plan and the government doesn't listen to them, the educational institutions bring a plan and the government doesn't listen to them.
""The public is especially fed up when many of the fines given by the police are in the 'gray' area of the law. The government should start dealing with the important things that are not in dispute before imposing such draconian fines on the public.".
