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Cabinet okays more jail time for rock throwers
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleMinisters have given the green light to a proposed bill that would make it easier to put stone throwers behind bars.
Under the new bill, originally proposed by former justice minister Tzipi Livni and taken up by her successor Ayelet Shaked, prosecutors will no longer have to prove intent to harm in order to jail those who throw rocks at vehicles.
The ministers okayed the measure unanimously, to send it to the Knesset for a full vote.
Under the current law, prosecutors have to prove intent to harm, making it nearly impossible to convict and forcing them to use a looser law that carries lighter sentences.
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