The Knesset Social Guard, which tracks lawmakers’ records on social issues, notes that outgoing Interior Minister Silvan Shalom, who stepped down yesterday amid a pileup of sexual harassment allegations, had a consistent record when it came to votes on bills pertaining to sexual abuse – he avoided them.
Shalom, who the Social Guard notes in a Facebook post was generally active on social issues, shirked a vote on a bill to enlarge the compensation to victims of abuse in the workplace, as well as one extending the application of the law against sexual harassment in the workplace.
He was also absent from several votes on a bill that sought to recognize sexual harassment victims as survivors of accidents in the workplace. When he did attend a vote on the bill, it was to vote against it after the coalition decided to shoot it down, the post says.
(The allegations against Shalom were not substantiated and a police investigation was subsequently closed.)
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