Knesset passes abuser monitoring law ‘rebalanced’ by Ben Gvir

The Knesset has passed a law introducing a system for electronically enforcing restraining orders on domestic abuse suspects, after the coalition torpedoed a similar bill to introduce on of its own.

The law, presented by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, authorizes electronically monitored restraining orders, but requires more preconditions for them than the previous version that was narrowly voted down in the Knesset in March.

Ben Gvir had said he wanted a version of the bill that was more “balanced” and addressed false accusations against abuse suspects.

The law is officially an emergency order and will expire in three years. It only goes into affect next year.

“After several years of legislating, we are finally putting cuffs on anyone who causes harm, or is clearly liable to cause harm, to allow families to have a normal life,” says Otzma Yehudit MK Tzvika Fogel, a Ben Gvir apparatchik who heads the Knesset committee that oversees his boss.