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Bill expanding police powers to probe incitement heads for final votes
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Lawmakers in the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee vote to advance a controversial bill allowing police greater discretion in probing suspected incitement, while chipping away at state attorneys’ oversight of investigations into such cases.
The bill, which will now go to the Knesset plenum for the final two votes needed for it to pass into law, would allow police to open investigations into possible incitement offenses without approval from the State Attorney’s Office.
The bill, which received backing from the ultra-Orthodox Shas party despite coalition tensions, also calls for stricter legal penalties for incitement.
In a tweet, Otzma Yehudit MK Yitzhak Kroizer, one of the bill’s sponsors, calls its advancement “a critical step that strengthens the law enforcement system and provides it with the tools to act immediately.”
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