The Knesset plenum approved in a preliminary reading the bill allowing removal of internet content, by MK Meir Yitzhak-Halevi and a group of MKs. In a vote, the proposal was supported by 58 MKs for it and 46 who opposed it and it will be transferred to the Constitution Committee.
It is proposed to provide that a judge empowered to do so shall be entitled to issue an order requiring a content publisher to remove content from its website if the judge is convinced that a criminal offense has been committed by publishing the content or if in the circumstances the publication is likely to endanger a person's mental well-being.