The Knesset Internal Affairs and Environment Committee held a stormy meeting Tuesday over the proposed Recommendations Law which would prevent police from providing a recommendation on criminal investigations.
House committee chairman David Amsalem said that the proposed law would "rectify the injustice done to 14,000 people annually, people whose cases were opened and no indictment was issued against them but in the meantime their lives were ruined. These are the 14,000 people a year about which the police claims to have a body of evidence and their names are published."
State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan who also attended the meeting said that if the matter of publication of the recommendations was the issue it could be legislated "but your law states that every case, including the most sensitive and complex ones, we won't be able to receive the police recommendation."