The Ministerial Committee on Legislative Affairs has approved the bill proposed by MK Idit Silman (Yamina), which expands the court's authority to impose restrictions on a minor sex offender.
Today under the existing law the court can impose various restrictions on a sex offender who has been convicted in order to prevent an encounter between him and the victim of the offense, but only when it is an adult offender or a minor who has been in a locked treatment home or prison. The court is otherwise not allowed to impose restrictions at all.
The purpose of the bill is to expand the powers of the court so that even in these cases it can determine that the suspect meets the definition of a "sex offender" under the Restrictions Act, and allow the court to impose restrictions regardless.