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Indexed passage in the Constitution of Israel

Index row title
General Provisions
Source document
Israel Constitution
Provision ID
37e1eab4-3cc0-4999-8933-a3dd672d8b5d

5,631 words · this row holds 94 numbered sections, so it is a chapter-length passage

Verbatim text

PDF generated: 18 Apr 2016, 15:20 This complete constitution has been generated from excerpts of texts from the repository of the Comparative Constitutions Project, and distributed on constituteproject.org. constituteproject.org Israel's Constitution of 1958 with Amendments through 2013 constituteproject.org PDF generated: 18 Apr 2016, 15:20 Page 2 Israel 1958 (rev. 2013) Table of contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Basic Law: The Knesset (1958) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1. What the Knesset is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2. Place of sitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3. Composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4. Electoral system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5. The right to vote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5A. The right to present a list of candidates (Amendments 19 and 21) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 6. The right to be elected (Amendments 8, 10, 22, and 26) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 6A. Restriction on the candidacy of a Knesset member seceding from his faction (Amendments 12, 21 and 36) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 7. Who shall not be a candidate (Amendments 2, 21, and 33) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 7A. Prevention of participation of candidates' list (Amendments 9, 35, and 39) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 8. Term of office of the Knesset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 9. Date of elections (Amendment 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 9A. Extending the Knesset's term (Amendment 15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 10. Election day to be a day of rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 11. Publication of election results (Amendment 20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 12. Convening of the Knesset (Amendment 37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 13. Amendments 27, and 37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 14. The opening meeting (Amendment 23) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 15. Declaration of allegiance by members of the Knesset (Amendment 23) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 16. Failure to make declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 16A. Failure to make declaration due to dual citizenship (Amendment 22) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 17. Immunity of Knesset members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 18. Immunity of Knesset buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 19. Procedure and rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 20. Chairman and Vice-Chairmen (Amendments 24, 27, 34 and 37) . . . . . . . . . 14 20A. Acting Chairman and Interim Chairman of Knesset (Amendments 4, 24 and 27) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 21. Committees (Amendments 13, 14, 16, and 28) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 21A. Knesset supervision of secondary legislation (Amendment 30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 22. Commissions of inquiry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 23. Government member who is not a member of the Knesset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 24. Quorum (Amendment 6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 25. Majority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 26. Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 27. Publicity of meetings (Amendment 17) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 28. Publication (Amendment 17) constituteproject.org PDF generated: 18 Apr 2016, 15:20 Page 3 Israel 1958 (rev. 2013) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 29. Amendment 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 30. Amendment 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 31. Sessions (Amendments 5 and 29) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 32. Amendment 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 33. Amendments 25, 27, and 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 34. Dissolution of the Knesset (Amendment 15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 35. Date of elections after dissolution of the Knesset (Amendment 30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 36. Term of office of the Knesset after dissolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 36A. Dispersion due to failure to adopt budget (Amendment 30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 37. Continuity of the Knesset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 38. Extension of validity of enactments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 39. Remuneration of members of the Knesset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 40. Resignation of member of the Knesset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 41. Consequences of resignation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 42. Termination of tenure or candidacy (Amendment 33) . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 42A. Knesset member who has been convicted (Amendments 7, 18, 26, and 32) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 42B. Suspension (Amendments 7, 26 and 38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 43. Replacement of Knesset member (Amendment 7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 44. Law not to be affected by emergency regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 45. Entrenched sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 45A. Application of entrenchment (Amendment 15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 46. Special majority when required (Amendments 3, 11, and 15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Basic Law: Israel Lands (1960) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 1. Prohibition of transfer of ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2. Permission by Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3. Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Basic Law: The President of the State (1964) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 1. Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2. Place of residence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3. Election and period of tenure (Amendments 2 and 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 4. Eligibility (Amendment 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 5. Date of election (Amendment 8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 6. Proposal of candidates (Amendment 8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 7. Voting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 8. Election by majority of votes (Amendments 7 and 9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 9. Declaration of allegiance . . . . . . . . . . 21 10. Making of declaration and commencement of period of tenure (Amendment 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 11. Functions and powers (Amendments 3 and 5) constituteproject.org PDF generated: 18 Apr 2016, 15:20 Page 4 Israel 1958 (rev. 2013) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 12. Counter-signature (Amendments 2 and 5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 13. Immunity with regard to discharge of functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 14. Immunity from criminal proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 15. Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 16. Salary and other payments (Amendment 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 17. President to hold no other office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 18. Departure for abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 19. Resignation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 20. Removal of President from office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 21. Vacation of post for reasons of health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 22. Temporary cessation of exercise of office (Amendment 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 23. Interim President and Acting President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 24. Notices in Reshumot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 25. Law not to be affected by emergency regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 26. Repeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 27. Transitional provision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Basic Law: The State Economy (1975) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 1. Taxes, compulsory loans, and fees (Amendment 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 2. State property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 3. The State Budget (Amendments 1, 2, and 7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 3A. Multi-annual budget (Amendment 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 3B. Failure to adopt budget (Amendment 5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 3C. Legislation requiring a budget (Amendment 6, Announcements 1 and 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 4. Currency notes and coins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 5. Inspection (Amendment 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Basic Law: The Military (1976) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 1. Defence Army of Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 2. Subordination to civil authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 3. Chief of the General Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 4. Duty to serve and recruitment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 5. Instructions and orders in the Army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 6. Other armed forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel (1980) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 1. Jerusalem, Capital of Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 2. Seat of the President, the Knesset, the Government and the Supreme Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 3. Protection of Holy Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 4. Development of Jerusalem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 5. Area of the jurisdiction of Jerusalem (Amendment 1) constituteproject.org PDF generated: 18 Apr 2016, 15:20 Page 5 Israel 1958 (rev. 2013) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 6. Prohibition of the transfer of authority (Amendment 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 7. Entrenchment (Amendment 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Basic Law: The Judiciary (1984) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

What this means

  • The passage runs to about 5,631 words.
  • Read plainly, it mentions property — it addresses property, possession, or taking property compulsorily (the words used: “property”); it mentions movement and residence — it concerns moving around, living where you choose, or leaving the country (the words used: “residence”); it mentions pay and pensions — it sets pay, salary, allowance or pension terms (the words used: “Remuneration”).

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