{"id":778,"date":"2010-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"778"},"modified":"2011-02-13T15:38:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T15:38:03","slug":"mk-rivlins-response-to-acri-anti-democratic-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2010\/10\/05\/mk-rivlins-response-to-acri-anti-democratic-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"MK Rivlin&#8217;s Response to ACRI: Anti-Democratic Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div lcass='pre'><\/div>\n<p>[stamp] Received by ACRI on 4 August, 2010 <\/p>\n<p>Knesset Speaker&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>Jerusalem &#8211; 3 August 2010<br \/>\nRef:  02859010<br \/>\nAttn:\tMr. Hagai Elad<br \/>\n\tExecutive Director &#8211; ACRI<\/p>\n<p>Dear Sir,<br \/>\n<stroing><u>Re: Your Letter to the Knesset Speaker, Dated 21 July, 2010<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is no secret that I am very uneasy with several of the proposed laws that you address in your letter.  I believe that the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people &#8211; a Jewish and democratic state &#8211; is sufficiently strong and does not require the \u201creinforcements\u201d offered in some of the proposed laws that you mention, which may unintentionally weaken Israel rather than strengthen her.   <\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, from an examination of the proposed laws listed in your letter, we find that some of these proposals were tabled in the Knesset and were not advanced, amongst other reasons, because of government opposition.  Others of these proposed laws are currently in various Knesset committees, and I trust that the legislative process will give expression to all the various legal and constitutional aspects that are involved in approving and advancing such legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I would like to note that I do not count the Cessation of Legal Proceedings and Clearing of Criminal Records Regarding the Disengagement Plan Law 5770-2010 &#8211; legislation which I helped initiate &#8211; among those laws \u201charming democracy\u201d which you enumerate in your letter. In my opinion, this law will stand up to every constitutional test, and its purpose is to deal with the crisis that Israeli society experienced in the wake of the Disengagement Plan.  In any event, the constitutionality of this legislation is currently being clarified in the Supreme Court.      <\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Reuven Rivlin<br \/>\nSpeaker of the Knesset<\/p>\n<div class='footnote'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[stamp] Received by ACRI on 4 August, 2010 Knesset Speaker&#8217;s Office Jerusalem &#8211; 3 August 2010 Ref: 02859010 Attn: Mr. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2010\/10\/05\/mk-rivlins-response-to-acri-anti-democratic-trends\/\">Read more<span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,1,3],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-democratic-legislation","category-democracy-and-civil-liberties","category-freedom-of-expression","tag-in-the-knesset"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}