Amid rising death tolls from violent crime in Arab communities, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich calls for the use of “unusual tools,” such as administrative detentions and Shin Bet involvement.
“Yes, we need to bring in the Shin Bet and the tools that it has” and “we need to enable administrative detentions,” Smotrich says in response to reporter questions at the outset of his Religious Zionism party’s Knesset faction meeting.
“There needs to be a set of tools to enable the government to work,” including “unusual tools.”
“People are afraid to leave their homes today, and justifiably,” he adds.
Administrative detention is a controversial practice whereby individuals can be held without charge practically indefinitely, and are not granted access to the evidence against them.
Israel currently only employs it for terror suspects.
While it is rarely used against Jewish suspects, nearly 1,000 Palestinians are currently held in custody under the practice.
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