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Following Zulat’s Exposure: Discussion in National Security Committee on Police Manpower Crisis

On Tuesday, June 10, 2025, a discussion was held in the National Security Committee at the initiative of Knesset members Merav Ben-Ari, Gilad Kariv, Hamad Amar, Naor Shiri, Moshe Sa’ada and Simon Moshiashvili, on the police manpower crisis, following a freedom of information request submitted on behalf of Zulat by Attorney Itai Mack, and with the participation of Zulat CEO Einat Ovadia.

We exposed that there is a significant decline in the quality of manpower that the police recruits. The lowering of criteria was implemented because the police failed to meet recruitment targets.

At the committee meeting, Ovadia said that the data proves not only that the police is recruiting lower-quality personnel, but that the problem is further exacerbated by shorter and less thorough training. Over time, this process will make it even more difficult to recruit quality candidates to the organization, which appears less and less professional and ever more political.

As police representatives claimed with full confidence that there has been an improvement in the data, we confronted them with the fact that even if more police officers are recruited, in the encounter between the citizen and the police officer – in demonstrations, in actions to prevent murder of women and murder in general – citizens encounter unprofessional police officers, more violent, with less of an understanding of their role and the need to protect the right to demonstrate, and mainly – police officers who understand that to advance, one doesn’t need to excel professionally, but only to excel in flattering the minister and senior ranks.

We all see the decline in police performance in face of raging violence in the streets and the police Ineffectiveness in handling it. The politicization of the police is witnessed by protesters, who encounter less professional and more violent police officers – because that’s the message coming from above. We also see this in the police’s idling in dealing with violence against Arabs, families of hostages, bereaved families and anyone the appointed minister sees as a political rival.

Zulat thanks Knesset member Merav Ben-Ari for putting the issue to the agenda.

To view Zulat CEO’s remarks (Hebrew, without English subtitles):

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Dr. Maha Sabbah Karkabi

 

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Tel Aviv University (2015), a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London (2015-2016), a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Sociology at Tel Aviv University (2016-2017), and a postdoctoral fellowship Ph.D. at the Humphrey Institute for Social Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2018-2020).
Dr. Maha Karbahi’s areas of interest focus on the connection between social change, family behavior, and gender inequality in societies in the process of change and specifically in Palestinian Arab society in Israel. Her research draws attention to the study of family life and employment, using a combined “ethnic lens” and “gender lens” and paying attention to the perspective of Palestinian Arab women, a group characterized by intersections between multiple marginal locations, which over the years has remained hidden from the research eye. Dr. Karkabi-Sabah’s research is published in professional journals and chapters in scientific books that are considered pioneers in family research, work, and gender equality.

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Prof. Frances Raday

Professor Emeritus in the Lieberman Chair in Labor Law, in the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University and serves as a full professor in the College of Management’s academic track, where she also serves as chair of the graduate program and as honorary president of the Concord Center for International Law Absorption. Radai was a member of a working group of the UN Human Rights Council on discrimination against women. In addition, she is a prominent and feminist human rights activist.

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Dr. Rawia Aburabia 

Faculty member of Sapir Academic College’s School of Law, received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research deals with the interface between law, gender, minorities, and human rights. Has published in leading journals on the subject of the matrimonial laws pertaining to Muslim women in Israel. Her book Under the Law, Outside Justice: Polygamy, Gendered Citizenship, and Colonialism in Israeli Law is expected to be published as part of the Gender Series of Kibbutz Meuhad Publishing House.

Dr. Aburabia has extensive experience in international human rights and public law. She has worked as a jurist for the Association for Civil Right and has been invited as a specialist to address such international forums as the United Nations and the European Parliament on the subject of indigenous communities and minority rights. She has interned with Human Rights Watch in Washington DC, and has been a member of the executive board of Amnesty International. In 2018, she was selected by the magazine Globes as one of the 40 most promising young persons in Israel under the age of 40.

 

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Ron Kessler

With over two decades of experience in the field of digital content, Ron has participated in numerous political and social campaigns. He helped run the digital activity of senior public officials, and worked in various NGOs. Ron is a fundamentally optimistic man, who believes that Israel can be changed and so can people. Lives in Tel Aviv.