Heavy Security Set for Smotrich Panel at Tel Aviv University

Special security arrangements have been completed ahead of a public panel at Tel Aviv University featuring MK Simcha Rothman, chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee. The event is taking place today amid threats and incitement on social media, along with calls from protest groups to disrupt it.

Rothman is scheduled to take part in a discussion in the Law Faculty’s Heichal HaMishpat auditorium with Dr. Ronit Levin-Shnur. The topic is the bill to split the role of the attorney general, one of Rothman’s central legislative initiatives.

The bill has already passed its first reading with support from 68 Knesset members and is expected to come before the plenum for second and third readings in the coming weeks. The panel is expected to address the attorney general’s authority, relations between the branches of government, separation of powers, and Israel’s system of checks and balances.

Hundreds of students, academics, and other participants are expected to attend. Because of the threats and the planned protests, organizers decided on heightened security for the event, which is drawing public attention both for the legal debate and for the tension surrounding whether it will proceed normally.