{"id":1059,"date":"2015-02-03T07:31:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T07:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayalavy.gnssweb.co.il\/en\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2019-01-16T09:14:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T09:14:47","slug":"cancelling-incarceration-of-debtors-to-the-collection-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ml-law.co.il\/en\/cancelling-incarceration-of-debtors-to-the-collection-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancelling Incarceration of Debtors to the Collection Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Israel implemented a law that applied an incarceration sanction on debtors through the collections authority (1961), this despite the fact that most debtors arrived to such level due to them being of poor and\/or of low income population.\u00a0 This sanction lead to a situation where many debtors, who were threatened with the possibility of incarceration, tried to avoid it using an assortment of actions, including loans from the gray market, and the use of different criminal means, that worsened their situation, and their families&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, amendment 29 to the seizure and collections law was introduced, that prohibits incarceration of debtors (except in cases of child support).\u00a0\u00a0 On the other hand, a much more effective use of other collection methods has been implemented: termination of driver&#8217;s license, stay of exit order, seizure of portables, restrictions on the use of credit cards, and more.\u00a0 In May 2014, a law, proposed by MK member Merav Michaeli, that absolutely prohibits incarceration as a means for collecting debts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Full article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calcalist.co.il\/local\/articles\/0,7340,L-3636375,00.html\">Calcalist web site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Israel implemented a law that applied an incarceration sanction on debtors through the collections authority (1961), this despite the fact that most debtors arrived to such level due to them being of poor and\/or of low income population.\u00a0 This sanction lead to a situation where many debtors, who were threatened with the possibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cancelling Incarceration of Debtors to the Collection Authority - Adv. 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