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Law
Penal Law, 5737-1977
חוק העונשין
Section B: Imprisonment
Life Imprisonment
41.
For an offense punishable by life imprisonment where it has not been determined that such is a mandatory sentence, the period of imprisonment imposed by the court shall not exceed twenty years.
Unspecified Imprisonment
42.
For an offense punishable by imprisonment where no period has been specified, the period of imprisonment imposed by the court shall not exceed one year.
Calculation of Imprisonment Period
43.
Where a person has been sentenced to imprisonment, the period of imprisonment shall be calculated from the date of the judgment, unless the court has directed otherwise; if the convicted person was released on bail after the judgment, the days of release shall not be counted toward the period of the sentence.
Deferred Imprisonment
44.
Where a court has imposed a sentence of imprisonment, it may order that the sentence shall commence from a date it has specified.
Concurrent Imprisonment
45.
[Amendment: 5772 | see [XI/11]]
(a)[(Repealed).]
(b)Where a person has been sentenced to imprisonment and, before having served the full sentence, is again sentenced to imprisonment, and the court that last sentenced him has not directed that the sentences of imprisonment, all or in part, shall be served consecutively, he shall serve only one sentence of imprisonment, being the longest period.
(c)Where a person has been sentenced to two or more periods of imprisonment, one of which partly overlaps the other, after having served one period of imprisonment, he shall serve only the remainder of the other period of imprisonment that does not overlap.
Order of Serving Criminal Imprisonment
46.
[Amendment: 5740-4 | see [XI/12]]
A person sentenced to different periods of imprisonment to be served consecutively shall first serve the shorter period, except for imprisonment that he has already begun to serve at the time he was sentenced to additional imprisonment, and subject to the provisions of Section 58; if among the periods of imprisonment there is imprisonment for non-payment of a fine, he shall serve it first, before any other criminal imprisonment, and if he was serving criminal imprisonment at the time imprisonment for non-payment of a fine was imposed upon him, that criminal imprisonment shall be suspended for the purpose of serving the imprisonment for non-payment of the fine and shall resume upon completion of the said imprisonment.
Order of Serving Civil Imprisonment
47.
[Amendment: 2007-2|other=[XI/13]]
(a)A person upon whom civil imprisonment has been imposed shall serve it in addition to any other period of imprisonment he is required to serve, whether that other imprisonment is criminal imprisonment or civil imprisonment.
(b)A person upon whom both civil imprisonment and criminal imprisonment have been imposed shall serve the civil imprisonment first; and if he was serving criminal imprisonment at the time the civil imprisonment was imposed upon him, the criminal imprisonment shall be suspended for the purpose of serving the civil imprisonment and shall resume upon the conclusion of the civil imprisonment.
(c)A person upon whom more than one civil imprisonment has been imposed for a single cause shall serve them consecutively in the order in which they were imposed; if the imprisonments are for different causes, he shall serve them consecutively in the following order:
(1)imprisonment to compel compliance with a court order or to compel proper conduct in court;
(2)imprisonment to compel payment of a maintenance debt;
(3)imprisonment to compel payment of any other civil debt;
(4)imprisonment to compel the granting of a get or the performance of chalitza;
(5)imprisonment for any other cause.
(d)In this Section –
"criminal imprisonment" – imprisonment imposed in criminal proceedings as a punishment for an offence, including imprisonment for non-payment of a Fine imposed as aforesaid;
"civil imprisonment" – imprisonment that is not criminal imprisonment, and for the purposes of subsection (b) – excluding imprisonment imposed by an order under the Enforcement Law, 5727–1967;
"court" – including a tribunal and a commission of inquiry.
Labor During Imprisonment
48.
(a)A prisoner shall be obligated to work in accordance with the Prisons Ordinance [New Version], 5732–1971, and the Regulations made thereunder; such Regulations shall contain provisions regarding wages and regarding the conditions of employment of a prisoner outside the bounds of prison facilities.
(b)A parole board may exempt a prisoner from the obligation to work or restrict it if it finds any of the following:
(1)his state of health requires it;
(2)the exemption or restriction will, in its opinion, assist in his rehabilitation;
(3)any other reasonable cause.
(c)A prisoner shall not be employed in work outside State institutions except with his consent and under customary conditions of employment.
49.
[Amendment: 5761-2, 5761-6 | see [XI/15]]
[(Repealed).]
50.
[Amendment: 5756-3, 5761-6 | see [XI/16]]
[(Repealed).]
51.
[Amendment: 5761-2, 5761-6 | see [XI/17]]
[(Repealed).]
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Definitions
51a.
[Amendment: 1987, 1988, 2010-2]
In this Division –
"the Supervisor" – the Supervisor of Community Service Work appointed pursuant to Section 51ja;
"household work" – [(deleted);]
"public work" – [(deleted);]
"community service work" – work performed outside the walls of a prison, for purposes of public benefit, at an institution of the State's institutions, or at another body or types of bodies designated by the Minister of Public Security;
"community service worker" – a person sentenced to a punishment of imprisonment through community service work, from the date set for the commencement of the community service work.
Serving Imprisonment through Community Service Work
51b.
[Amendment: 5747, 5748, 5770-2, 5771-6, 5778-4, 5781, 5783-3, 5785-5]
(a)A court that has sentenced a defendant to actual imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months may decide, in the judgment, that the convicted person shall serve the imprisonment sentence, in whole or in part, through community service work; if the court determines that part of the imprisonment sentence shall be served through community service work, the convicted person shall serve that part of the sentence upon completion of the actual imprisonment period, unless the court has determined otherwise.
[(Temporary provision from 16.5.2023 to 15.5.2025, and from 21.5.2025 to 15.5.2028):] A court that has sentenced a defendant to actual imprisonment for a period not exceeding nine months may decide, in the judgment, that the convicted person shall serve the imprisonment sentence, in whole or in part, through community service work; if the court determines that part of the imprisonment sentence shall be served through community service work, the convicted person shall serve that part of the sentence upon completion of the actual imprisonment period, unless the court has determined otherwise.
(b)The court shall not decide as stated in subsection (a) that a defendant shall serve the imprisonment sentence, in whole or in part, through community service work, unless all of the following conditions are met:
(1)The court received, prior to pronouncing judgment, an opinion on behalf of the Supervisor (in this Division – the Supervisor's opinion) regarding the defendant's suitability for community service work, as well as regarding the possibility of placing the defendant therein, the community service work that the defendant is capable of performing, and the conditions under which it shall be carried out;
(2)The defendant consented to serving the imprisonment sentence through community service work, in accordance with the conditions set out in the Supervisor's opinion.
(b1)The Supervisor's opinion shall detail the following:
(1)The suitability, unsuitability, or limitations on the suitability of the defendant for serving the sentence through community service work, in view of the existence of a reasonable basis for concern of harm to the body or life of a person, including the defendant himself, if the defendant serves the imprisonment sentence through community service work; a determination of unsuitability or limitations on suitability of the defendant shall be based on an opinion received by the Supervisor, if one was given, from a police officer authorized for this purpose by the Head of the Investigation and Intelligence Branch of the Israel Police, an employee of the General Security Service authorized for this purpose by the Head of the Investigation Branch of the General Security Service, or an officer in the Israel Prison Service authorized for this purpose by the Head of the Intelligence Division of the Israel Prison Service, as the case may be;
(2)The possibility or impossibility of placing the defendant in community service work suitable to the defendant's health condition and disabilities, if any, the defendant's ability to be employed at the types of workplaces where a community service worker may be employed, and the defendant's ability to meet the required working hours and work procedures customary at such types of workplaces; for this purpose, the Supervisor may rely on the following:
(a)The offense for which the defendant was convicted;
(b)The defendant's prior convictions;
(c)An opinion from a therapeutic body regarding the defendant, if provided, including — if a probation officer's report was prepared in connection with the proceeding in which the Supervisor's opinion was requested — the summary and recommendations of that report, and if a risk assessment was prepared pursuant to the Protection of the Public from Sex Offenses Law, 5766–2006 — a summary of the updated assessment;
(d)A supervision order pursuant to the Protection of the Public from Sex Offenses Law, 5766–2006, and an order pursuant to the Restrictions on the Return of a Sex Offender to the Vicinity of the Offense Victim Law, 5765–2004, if issued with respect to the defendant;
(e)Assessments previously given regarding the manner of performance of prior community service work by the defendant;
(f)The defendant's health condition and disabilities, if any, including an opinion from a therapeutic body on this matter.
(b2)For the purpose of placing the defendant in a specific type of community service work, in view of placement limitations, the Supervisor may rely on the information listed in subsection (b1)(2)(a) through (f), and on information regarding the defendant's background; however, information not listed in subsection (b1)(2) shall not be brought before the court, and shall not serve as grounds for not placing the defendant in community service work.
(b3)If the Supervisor has not found a suitable placement for the defendant in community service work, in view of the information listed in subsection (b1)(2)(a) through (f), the Supervisor shall notify the court accordingly, and shall detail the actions taken to locate a suitable placement and when a suitable placement for the defendant is expected to become available, having regard to the said information.
(b4)
(1)The court may instruct the Supervisor to present before it information as stated in subsection (b1)(1), upon which the Supervisor's opinion is based, that is classified by law or whose disclosure to the defendant or the defendant's counsel may, in the opinion of a body as stated in subsection (b1)(1), harm State security or another important public interest (in this Division – classified information).
(2)At the request of the defendant or the defendant's counsel, the court shall instruct the Supervisor to permit the defendant to inspect the information upon which the Supervisor's opinion regarding the defendant is based; if the information upon which the said opinion is based constitutes classified information, and the court finds that the interest in non-disclosure outweighs the need to disclose it for the sake of justice, the court shall not order that the defendant inspect the said information, and shall instruct the Supervisor to transmit to the defendant a summary or particulars of the classified information, to the extent that this can be done without harming State security or the other important public interest.
(3)The court may inspect classified information even in the absence of the defendant and the defendant's counsel and without disclosing its contents to them, unless the defendant objected to the court's inspection of the classified information; such an objection shall be deemed a withdrawal of the defendant's consent to serving the sentence through community service work.
(4)If the court has instructed the Supervisor to permit the defendant to inspect classified information upon which the opinion is based, the Attorney General may file a petition against the disclosure of the information; until a decision on the petition is rendered, the material shall not be disclosed.
(5)For the purpose of its decision regarding the defendant's suitability for community service work alone, the court may also take into account classified information brought before it pursuant to this subsection.
(c)The court may set conditions for the community service work.
(d)For the purpose of this section, a period of actual imprisonment shall be calculated as follows:
(1)Concurrent imprisonment periods — according to the longer period;
(2)Consecutive imprisonment periods — according to the sum total of all periods.
The Community Service Work
51c.
[Amendment: 1987, 1988, 2001-6, 2007-2, 2010-2, 2018-4, 2021, 2023-3, 2025-5]
(a)Where the court has imposed a sentence of imprisonment through community service work, the community service work shall commence on the date set by the court, taking into account the Supervisor's recommendation, and no later than one month from the date of the judgment, unless the court has ordered the commencement of the community service work at a later date; if the court has determined that the convicted person shall serve only part of the imprisonment period through community service work, the community service work shall commence on the day following the expiry of the actual imprisonment period; nothing in the provisions of this sub-section shall derogate from the court's authority pursuant to Section 87.
(b)Section 2 of the Conditional Release from Imprisonment Law, 5761–2001 (in this sub-section – the Conditional Release Law) shall not apply to a person in respect of whom the court has decided that he shall serve the imprisonment sentence through community service work; however, if the said decision applies only to part of the imprisonment period imposed upon him and the remainder of the imprisonment period pursuant to the decision exceeds three months, or if the community service work has been discontinued in accordance with the provisions of Sections 51ט or 51י and the remainder of the imprisonment period that the prisoner is required to serve as a result of such discontinuation exceeds three months, Section 2 of the Conditional Release Law shall apply to the remainder of the said imprisonment periods.
[(Temporary provision from 16.5.2023 to 15.5.2025, and from 21.5.2025 to 15.5.2028):] Sections 2 and 3 of the Conditional Release from Imprisonment Law, 5761–2001 (in this sub-section – the Conditional Release Law) shall not apply to a person in respect of whom the court has decided that he shall serve the imprisonment sentence through community service work; however, if the said decision applies only to part of the imprisonment period imposed upon him and the remainder of the imprisonment period pursuant to the decision exceeds three months, or if the community service work has been discontinued in accordance with the provisions of Sections 51ט or 51י and the remainder of the imprisonment period that the prisoner is required to serve as a result of such discontinuation exceeds three months, Sections 2 and 3 of the Conditional Release Law shall apply to the remainder of the said imprisonment periods.
(c)Community service work shall be carried out under the supervision of an inspector appointed for that purpose by the Supervisor (hereinafter – inspector), and the inspector may enlist others for this purpose; [(Temporary provision from 16.5.2023 to 15.5.2025, and from 21.5.2025 to 15.5.2028):] for every community service worker sentenced to community service work for a period exceeding six months, an accompaniment and rehabilitation programme shall be established by a probation officer, unless the probation officer has found that such a programme is not required.
(d)The Supervisor, or a senior warden as defined in the Prisons Ordinance [New Version], 5732–1971 (hereinafter – the Prisons Ordinance), serving as a district community service work coordinator whom the Supervisor has authorised for this purpose (in this Division – district community service work coordinator), may transfer a community service worker to a different place of work for reasonable grounds.
51d.
[Amendment: 1987, 1988, 2010-2]
[(Repealed).]
Conditions of Community Service Work
51e.
[Amendment: 1987, 1988, 2010-2]
A community service worker shall not receive remuneration and shall not be considered an employee of the person for whom or through whom the worker performs the service, except for the purposes of criminal law, occupational safety laws, and tort liability towards that community service worker.
Period of Community Service Work
51f.
[Amendment: 1987, 1988, 2010-2]
(a)The period of community service work shall be as determined by the court in the judgment (in this Division – the community service work period), and the convicted person shall perform the community service work continuously during that period, subject to the provisions of this section.
(b)A community service worker's working week shall consist of five working days; the number of working hours in a community service worker's working day shall be eight and a half consecutive hours; however, the court or the Supervisor may, in exceptional cases due to special circumstances of the defendant or in accordance with the practice at the place of community service work, approve the performance of community service work at a lower daily number of hours, provided that it shall not be less than six working hours per day.
(c)A community service worker shall not work on a day of rest within the meaning of Section 18a(a) of the Law and Administration Ordinance, 5708–1948, on days of rest prescribed by legislation, and also on an additional day during the week to be determined by the Supervisor in accordance with the practice at the place of community service work and the needs of that place of work; the days enumerated in this sub-section shall be counted within the community service work period.
Interruption of Community Service Work
51g.
[Amendment: 1987, 2010-2]
(a)Where the work at the place of community service work has ended, the Supervisor or district community service work coordinator shall transfer the community service worker without delay to community service work at another place of work.
(b)The community service worker shall notify the Supervisor, without delay, of any interruption in or absence from work.
(c)A community service worker shall not be absent from work except with the approval of the Supervisor, the community service work coordinator, or an inspector, and if absent for medical reasons – also with a physician's approval; the approval shall be in accordance with rules to be established by the Minister of Public Security in Regulations.
(d)The period of interruption of community service work and the days of absence of a community service worker pursuant to this section shall not be counted within the days of community service work, except for absences for medical reasons due to a work accident that occurred in the framework of and at the place of community service work.
Duties of a Community Service Worker
51h.
[Amendment: 1987, 1988, 2010-2]
(a)A community service worker shall perform the community service work imposed upon him and shall comply with the rules and instructions established by the Supervisor, the community service work coordinator, and the inspector, as applicable, in all matters relating to the community service work.
(b)The community service worker shall notify the Supervisor of his permanent residential address, and shall also notify the Supervisor of any change in the said residential address within 48 hours of the date of the change.
Prohibition on Leaving the Country for a Community Service Worker
51h1.
[Amendment: 2012-4]
A community service worker shall not leave the country during the community service work period, except with the approval of the Supervisor.
Administrative Suspension of Community Service Work
51i.
[Amendment: 5747, 5748, 5770-2]
(a)The Commissioner of Prisons, or an officer of the rank of Superintendent authorized by the Commissioner, may, after having given the community service worker an opportunity to present arguments before the Commissioner or before a senior warder as defined in the Prisons Ordinance who has been authorized for this purpose by the Commissioner, decide that the community service worker's work shall not commence or shall be suspended and that the worker shall serve the sentence or the remainder of the sentence in prison, as the case may be, if the Commissioner finds that one of the following applies to the community service worker, as the case may be:
(1)The worker did not report for the commencement of the community service work or was absent from work without the authorization of the Supervisor, the community service work coordinator, the inspector, or a physician;
(2)The worker is not properly performing the tasks assigned to the worker, or the worker's conduct at work is unsatisfactory;
(3)The worker has breached a condition of the community service work set by the court pursuant to Section 51b(c);
(4)The worker did not comply with an instruction of the Supervisor, the community service work coordinator, or the inspector, or did not fulfill an obligation imposed upon the worker pursuant to this Division;
(5)The worker is in detention or has been released on bail under conditions that do not permit the worker to report for the continuation of the community service work;
(6)The worker concealed a detail or provided a false detail that is material for the purpose of determining the worker's suitability for community service work or placement therein.
(a1)A hearing pursuant to subsection (a) shall be conducted orally and documented in writing; if the community service worker has been summoned to a hearing as aforesaid, the worker shall continue working until a decision is rendered in the worker's matter as stated in subsection (a), unless the Supervisor has instructed otherwise; if the Supervisor has instructed otherwise, the period from the date of the community service worker's summons to the hearing until the decision in the worker's matter shall not count toward the days of community service work, unless the court has instructed otherwise.
(b)
(1)Notice of a decision as stated in subsection (a) shall be given, without delay, to the community service worker at the workplace or at the Supervisor's offices, and if the worker has not yet commenced the community service work or is absent from the workplace, the notice shall be sent by registered mail to the residential address provided by the worker to the Supervisor pursuant to Section 51h(b); if the notice was sent by registered mail pursuant to this paragraph, it shall be deemed as if it was delivered to the community service worker within 14 days from the date of dispatch of the notice, unless the worker proves that the notice was not received for reasons beyond the worker's control.
(2)If the community service worker has commenced the community service work and a decision as stated in subsection (a) has been received, the work shall be suspended on the day following the day on which the notice was delivered to the worker.
(c)A community service worker may file a petition pursuant to Section 62a of the Prisons Ordinance [New Version], 5732–1971 (hereinafter – petition) against a decision pursuant to subsection (a) before the District Court in whose jurisdiction the community service worker's place of residence is located, within 14 days from the day on which the decision was delivered to the worker; however, the court may, at the request of the community service worker, extend the said period for special reasons to be recorded; the provisions of Division H1 of Chapter II of the said Ordinance shall apply to such a petition, to the extent that they do not conflict with the provisions of this section.
(d)If the community service worker has filed a petition — the commencement of the community service work shall be stayed or the suspension thereof shall continue, as the case may be, until the day following the day on which the court's decision is rendered; if no petition has been filed — the community service worker shall serve the sentence or the remainder of the sentence in prison commencing on the day following the day on which the period for filing the petition has expired.
(d1)A decision pursuant to subsection (a) shall have the force of an order for the imprisonment of the community service worker; if the community service worker filed a petition and the court decided to dismiss it — the order shall take effect on the day following the day on which the said decision was rendered; if the community service worker did not file a petition — the order shall take effect on the day following the day on which the period for filing the petition expired.
(e)A court's decision on a petition shall be implemented commencing on the day following the day on which it was rendered, unless the court has set another date.
(f)Days of suspension of community service work pursuant to this section shall not count toward the period of community service work.
Judicial Suspension of Community Service Work
51j.
[Amendment: 5747, 5748, 5770-2]
(a)If a court has convicted a community service worker during the period of the worker's community service of another offense, the following provisions shall apply:
(1)If the court imposed a sentence of imprisonment for the other offense — and determined that the defendant shall not serve it through community service work — the community service work shall not commence or shall be suspended on the day of the pronouncement of judgment, as the case may be, and the community service worker shall serve the sentence or the remainder of the sentence, as the case may be, in prison from the said day or from another day determined by the court; the community service worker shall serve the imprisonment periods consecutively, unless the court that convicted the worker of the other offense ordered that both periods, in whole or in part, shall be concurrent;
(2)If the court decided to impose a sentence other than that listed in paragraph (1) for the other offense — the court may determine that the community service work shall not commence or shall be suspended, as the case may be, and that the community service worker shall serve the sentence or the remainder of the sentence, as the case may be, in prison from the day to be determined by the court.
(a1)The judge or panel that pronounced the judgment, or in the judge's or panel's absence — another judge or panel in the same court, as the case may be, may, after having given the defendant an opportunity to present arguments, impose another sentence on the defendant if one of the following has occurred, and the court may order that the community service work be suspended until its decision is rendered:
(1)The Supervisor has brought before the court an opinion from a prison service physician, according to which the community service worker has lost working capacity and a permanent or prolonged incapacity has been determined due to an injury sustained after the judgment was pronounced;
(2)The Supervisor has brought before the court an opinion based on an opinion from a competent authority listed in Section 51b(b1)(1), which was not before the court at the time of its decision pursuant to Section 51b(a), or which was not known to the Supervisor at the time of the hearing pursuant to Section 51b(a), and according to those opinions the convicted person is not suitable to serve the imprisonment through community service work, in view of the existence of a reasonable basis for concern of harm to the body or life of a person, including the defendant himself, if the defendant serves or continues to serve the imprisonment sentence through community service work; the bringing of the opinion before the court shall be in the manner prescribed in Section 51b(b4).
(a2)If an indictment has been filed against a community service worker for another offense after judgment was pronounced sentencing the worker to serve the imprisonment through community service work, the judge or panel that pronounced the judgment, or in the judge's or panel's absence — another judge or panel in the same court, may, at the request of the Supervisor and after having given the defendant an opportunity to present arguments, order that the community service work shall not commence or shall be suspended, and that the convicted person shall serve the sentence or the remainder of the sentence in prison, if the court is of the opinion, based on the facts alleged in the indictment, that the commencement or continuation of the community service work by the defendant is no longer appropriate for serving the imprisonment sentence through community service work, in view of the timing of the commission of the offense, its nature, its severity, and the circumstances of its commission.
(b)An appeal against a court's decision pursuant to subsection (a)(2) or subsection (a2) may be filed within 14 days from the day on which the decision was delivered to the appellant; the court shall hear the appeal before a single judge and its decision shall be final; the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Law [Consolidated Version], 5742–1982, regarding appeals shall apply to a court's decision to impose another sentence pursuant to subsection (a1).
Shortening the Period of Community Service Work
51j1.
[Amendment: 5778-4, 5781, 5783-3, 5785-5]
[(Temporary provision from 16.5.2023 to 15.5.2025, and from 21.5.2025 to 15.5.2028):]
(a)The period of community service work of a community service worker serving an imprisonment sentence through community service work for a period exceeding six months shall be shortened to a period as detailed in subsection (c), provided that the Supervisor has received all of the following:
(1)Confirmation from an inspector that the community service worker has performed the community service work as required and continuously in accordance with the provisions of Section 51f, provided that no administrative suspension proceedings of the community service work pursuant to Section 51t have commenced with respect to the community service worker;
(2)Confirmation from a probation officer regarding the community service worker's compliance with the program set for the worker by the probation officer pursuant to the provisions of Section 51c(c), unless the probation officer found that such a program is not required, and if the court has issued a probation order with respect to the community service worker pursuant to Section 1 of the Probation Ordinance [New Version], 5729–1969 — confirmation from a probation officer regarding the community service worker's compliance with the conditions of the order, as required by the probation officer.
(b)If the period of community service work of a community service worker has been shortened pursuant to the provisions of subsection (a), the worker shall be deemed to have completed serving the sentence at the end of that period.
(c)The shortening of the period of community service work pursuant to this section shall be for the periods detailed below, provided that the period of community service work shall not be less than six months:
(1)With respect to a community service worker serving an imprisonment sentence through community service work for a period exceeding six months and not exceeding seven months — four weeks;
(2)With respect to a community service worker serving an imprisonment sentence through community service work for a period exceeding seven months — six weeks.
(d)[(Temporary provision from 15.8.2023 to 15.5.2025, and from 21.5.2025 to 15.5.2028; applies to a person sentenced during the said period):] The provisions of this section shall apply with respect to the period of community service work of a community service worker serving an imprisonment sentence through community service work for a period exceeding three months and not exceeding six months, with the following modifications:
(1)In subsection (a), the provision of paragraph (2) — shall not apply;
(2)In place of subsection (c), the following shall be read:
"(c) The shortening of the period of community service work pursuant to this section shall be for the periods detailed below, provided that the period of community service work shall not be less than three months:
(1)With respect to a community service worker serving an imprisonment sentence through community service work for a period exceeding three months and not exceeding four months — two weeks;
(2)With respect to a community service worker serving an imprisonment sentence through community service work for a period exceeding four months and not exceeding six months — three weeks."
Supervisor of Community Service Work
51ja.
[Amendment: 1987, 1988, 2010-2]
(a)The Minister of Public Security shall appoint a Prison Service officer as Supervisor of Community Service Work.
(b)The Supervisor shall act with due diligence to organise community service work, to find placements for community service work for a variety of population groups, including persons with disabilities, to place convicted persons in such placements, to appoint inspectors from among State employees, and to supervise community service work.
Regulations
51jb.
[Amendment: 1987, 1988, 2010-2]
(a)The Minister of Public Security may make Regulations for the implementation of this Division.
(b)Regulations made by the Minister of Public Security pursuant to this Division shall be made in consultation with the Minister of Justice and with the approval of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, except for Regulations made with respect to bodies as referred to in the definition of "community service work" in Section 51א.
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