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25th Knesset · outgoing

Penal Law (Amendment – Breaking into a Security Facility) Bill

Translated from Hebrew: הצעת חוק העונשין (תיקון - פריצה למיתקן ביטחוני)

TL;DRA proposal to add a new offense to the Penal Law: breaking into a security facility and stealing from it, with a prison sentence.

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What does the bill do?

The proposal addresses break-ins at security facilities including IDF bases, police, prisons and other facilities defined as security facilities. The proposal provides that anyone who breaks into such a facility or commits in it a theft offense or a felony-type offense will be liable to a prison sentence, where the minimum penalty will not be less than half of the maximum penalty. The proposal is intended to add a new section (407C) to the Penal Law, 5737-1977.

Rejected at preliminary readingFirst plenum vote: December 25, 2024

The votes on this bill

Rejected32 for · 47 against · 1 abstained · 40 did not vote
Source: the Knesset's vote record ↗

Coalition 68 seats

LikudAgainst 21 · Absent 11
ShasAgainst 8 · Absent 3
United Torah JudaismAgainst 5 · Absent 2
Religious ZionismAgainst 6 · Absent 1
Otzma YehuditAgainst 3 · Absent 3
NoamAbsent 1

Left the coalition 8 seats

Opposition 44 seats

Yesh AtidFor 23 · Absent 1
Yisrael BeytenuFor 4 · Absent 2
Ra'amAbstained 1 · Absent 4
LaborAbsent 4

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