Democrats party whip MK Efrat Rayten said the bill that passed its first Knesset reading Monday establishes a sham mechanism that lets those under investigation appoint the investigators, calling it a ploy to evade accountability and erase memory, according to Daphna Liel (N12).
MK Efrat Rayten (Democrats), whose party has led opposition to the coalition's proposed commission of inquiry into the October 7 massacre, offered her most pointed critique after the bill cleared its first Knesset reading Monday evening. Rayten said the mechanism lets those under investigation appoint their own investigators, and called the vote in a near-empty chamber symbolic of disconnect and abandonment. She is the senior opposition whip to comment since the vote; earlier reactions came from party chair Yair Golan, who vowed the families would get the truth, and from Avigdor Liberman, who labeled it a 'whitewash committee.' The bill's next legislative stage is not yet scheduled.
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