Knesset to Vote on Immunity for MK Tally Gotliv as Haredi Parties Signal Support

The Knesset plenum is set to vote today, Wednesday, on granting criminal immunity to MK Tally Gotliv, who is accused of revealing the identity of a Shin Bet officer who is the partner of Shikma Bressler. The Knesset House Committee approved the immunity request two days ago, and today is the last day the plenum can endorse it, 30 days after the indictment was filed against her.

Shas and United Torah Judaism view the vote as a confrontation with the attorney general and the justice system, and are expected to support the immunity measure. Gotliv earlier published the Shin Bet officer’s identity and claimed he had engaged in treason on October 7.

In a morning interview with Kan News radio program "Habetekha" on Reshet Bet, Gotliv said, "The vote on my substantive immunity is not a vote for me personally, but for Knesset members as such." She argued that "persecution and an attempt to silence a Knesset member is something that should not happen in a proper country."

Gotliv added that immunity has "a basic value for proper parliamentary work," and said she expects the authorities to rule that exposing Bressler’s partner as a Shin Bet man was done in the course of her duties and is therefore protected by substantive immunity.