Basic Law The Knesset (1958) 1. What the Knesset is 2. Place of sitting 3. Composition 4. Electoral system 5. The right to vote 5A. The right to present a list of candidates (Amendments 19 and 21) 6. The right to be elected (Amendments 8, 10, 22, and 26) 6A. Restriction on the candidacy of a Knesset member seceding from his faction (Amendments 12, 21 and 36) 7. Who shall not be a candidate (Amendments 2, 21, and 33) 7A. Prevention of participation of candidates’ list (Amendments 9, 35, and 39) 8. Term of office of the Knesset 9. Date of elections (Amendment 1) 9A. Extending the Knesset’s term (Amendment 15) 10. Election day to be a day of rest 11. Publication of election results (Amendment 20) 12. Convening of the Knesset (Amendment 37) 13. Amendments 27, and 37 14. The opening meeting (Amendment 23) 15. Declaration of allegiance by members of the Knesset (Amendment 23) 16. Failure to make declaration 16A. Failure to make declaration due to dual citizenship (Amendment 22) 17. Immunity of Knesset members 18. Immunity of Knesset buildings 19. Procedure and rules 20. Chairman and Vice-Chairmen (Amendments 24, 27, 34 and 37) 20A. Acting Chairman and Interim Chairman of Knesset (Amendments 4, 24 and 27) c1 21. Committees (Amendments 13, 14, 16, and 28) 21A. Knesset supervision of secondary legislation (Amendment 30) 22. Commissions of inquiry 23. Government member who is not a member of the Knesset 24. Quorum (Amendment 6) 25. Majority 26. Meetings 27. Publicity of meetings (Amendment 17) 28. Publication (Amendment 17) 29. Amendment 17 30. Amendment 17 31. Sessions (Amendments 5 and 29) 32. Amendment 31 33. Amendments 25, 27, and 29 34. Dissolution of the Knesset (Amendment 15) 35. Date of elections after dissolution of the Knesset (Amendment 30) 36. Term of office of the Knesset after dissolution 36A. Dispersion due to failure to adopt budget (Amendment 30) 37. Continuity of the Knesset 38. Extension of validity of enactments 39. Remuneration of members of the Knesset 40. Resignation of member of the Knesset 41. Consequences of resignation 42. Termination of tenure or candidacy (Amendment 33) 42A. Knesset member who has been convicted (Amendments 7, 18, 26, and 32) 42B. Suspension (Amendments 7, 26 and 38) 43. Replacement of Knesset member (Amendment 7) 44. Law not to be affected by emergency regulations 45. Entrenched sections 45A. Application of entrenchment (Amendment 15) 46. Special majority when required (Amendments 3, 11, and 15) Basic Law. Israel Lands (1960) 1. Prohibition of transfer of ownership 2. Permission by Law 3. Definition Basic Law. The President of the State (1964) 1. Status 2. Place of residence 3. Election and period of tenure (Amendments 2 and 4) 4. Eligibility (Amendment 4) 5. Date of election (Amendment 8) 6. Proposal of candidates (Amendment 8) a 7. Voting 8. Election by majority of votes (Amendments 7 and 9) 9. Declaration of allegiance 10. Making of declaration and commencement of period of tenure (Amendment 4) 11. Functions and powers (Amendments 3 and 5) 12. Counter-signature (Amendments 2 and 5) 13. Immunity with regard to discharge of functions 14. Immunity from criminal proceedings 15. Evidence 16. Salary and other payments (Amendment 1) 17. President to hold no other office 18. Departure for abroad 19. Resignation 20. Removal of President from office 21. Vacation of post for reasons of health 22. Temporary cessation of exercise of office (Amendment 2) 23. Interim President and Acting President 24. Notices in Reshumot 25. Law not to be affected by emergency regulations 26. Repeal 27. Transitional provision Basic Law. The State Economy (1975) 1. Taxes, compulsory loans, and fees (Amendment 1) 2. State property 3. The State Budget (Amendments 1, 2, and 7) a b 3A. Multi-annual budget (Amendment 4) 3B. Failure to adopt budget (Amendment 5) 3C. Legislation requiring a budget (Amendment 6, Announcements 1 and 2) 4. Currency notes and coins 5. Inspection (Amendment 3) Basic Law. The Military (1976) 1. Defence Army of Israel 2. Subordination to civil authority 3. Chief of the General Staff 4. Duty to serve and recruitment 5. Instructions and orders in the Army 6. Other armed forces Basic Law. Jerusalem, Capital of Israel (1980) 1. Jerusalem, Capital of Israel 2. Seat of the President, the Knesset, the Government and the Supreme Court 3. Protection of Holy Places 4. Development of Jerusalem 5. Area of the jurisdiction of Jerusalem (Amendment 1) 6. Prohibition of the transfer of authority (Amendment 1) 7. Entrenchment (Amendment 1) Basic Law. The Judiciary (1984) Chapter One. Basic Provisions 1. Judicial power 2. Independence 3. Publicity of proceedings Chapter Two. Judges 4. Appointment of judges 5. Nationality 6. Declaration of allegiance 7. Period of tenure (Amendment 2) 8. Retired judge 9. Restriction on re-posting 10. Salary and benefits 11. Judge not to engage in additional occupation, etc 12. Criminal proceedings 13. Disciplinary proceedings 14. Suspension (Amendment 1) Chapter Three. The Courts 15. Supreme Court 16. Other courts 17. Appeal 18. Further hearing 19. Retrial 20. Established rule 21. Registrar Chapter Four. Miscellaneous Provisions 22. Law not to be affected by emergency regulations 23. Provisions to be prescribed by Law 24. Provisions to be prescribed under Law Basic Law. The State Comptroller (1988) 1. Essence 2. State Audit 3. Duty to provide information 4. Comptroller as Commissioner for Complaints 5. Additional tasks 6. Accountability to the Knesset 7. Election and Term of office (Amendment 1) 8. Qualifications (Amendment 1) 9. Pledge of allegiance 10. Budget 11. Salary and emoluments 12. Contact with Knesset and issuance of reports 13. Removal from office (Amendment 2) 14. Acting State Comptroller Basic Law. Human Dignity and Liberty (1992) 1. Basic principles (Amendment 1) 1A. Purpose (Amendment 1) 2. Preservation of life, body and dignity 3. Protection of property 4. Protection of life, body and dignity 5. Personal liberty 6. Leaving and entering Israel 7. Privacy 8. Violation of rights (Amendment 1) 9. Reservation regarding security forces 10. Validity of laws 11. Application 12. Stability Basic Law. Freedom of Occupation (1994) 1. Basic principles 2. Purpose 3. Freedom of occupation 4. Violation of freedom of occupation 5. Application 6. Stability 7. Entrenchment 8. Effect of nonconforming law (Amendment 2) 9. Repeal 10. Provisional (Amendments 1 and 2) 11. Amendment of Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty Basic Law. The Government (2001) 1. What the Government is 2. Seat of Government 3. Confidence of the Knesset 4. Responsibility 5. Composition 6. Eligibility of Ministers c 7. Assignment of task of forming Government 8. Periods for formation of Government 9. Re-assignment of task 10. Assignment of task at the request of party groups 11. Early elections in the event of failure to form a government 12. Discontinuance of proceedings for formation of Government 13. Formation of Government 14. Declaration of allegiance 15. Cooption of a Minister 16. Acting Prime Minister 17. Interrogation and impeachment of the Prime Minister 18. Removal from office pursuant to an offense 19. Resignation of Prime Minister 20. Death or permanent incapacity of Prime Minister 21. Prime Minister or Acting Prime Minister ceasing to function as members of Knesset 22. Termination of tenure of Minister 23. Termination of tenure of Minister pursuant to an offense 24. Acting Minister 25. Deputy Ministers 26. Termination of service of a Deputy Minister 27. Termination of tenure of Deputy Minister pursuant to an offense 28. Expression of no confidence in the Government 29. Authority to disperse the Knesset 30. Continuity of Government 31. Functioning of the Government 32. Residual powers of Government 33. Delegation of powers 34. Assumption of powers 35. Secrecy 36. Salaries and pensions 37. Regulations 38. Declaration of a state of emergency 39. State of emergency 40. Declaration of war 41. Inapplicability of emergency laws 42. The Government and Knesset committees 43. Change in election date 44. Permanence of the Law 45. Amendment of Basic Law: The Knesset – No. 30 46. Repeal of The Basic Law: The Government 47. Effect and applicability
Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel.
Jerusalem is the seat of the President of the State, the Knesset, the Government and the Supreme Court.
The Holy Places shall be protected from desecration and any other violation and from anything likely to violate the freedom of access of the members of the different religions to the places sacred to them or their feelings towards those places.
The Government shall provide for the development and prosperity of Jerusalem and the well-being of its inhabitants by allocating special funds, including a special annual grant to the Municipality of Jerusalem (Capital City Grant) with the approval of the Finance Committee of the Knesset.
Jerusalem shall be given special priority in the activities of the authorities of the State so as to further its development in economic and other matters.
The Government shall set up a special body or special bodies for the implementation of this section.
The jurisdiction of Jerusalem includes, as pertaining to this basic law, among others, all of the area that is described in the appendix of the proclamation expanding the borders of municipal Jerusalem beginning the 20th of Sivan 5727 (June 28, 1967), as was given according to the Cities’ Ordinance.
No authority that is stipulated in the law of the State of Israel or of the Jerusalem Municipality may be transferred either permanently or for an allotted period of time to a foreign body, whether political, governmental or to any other similar type of foreign body.
Clauses 5 and 6 shall not be modified except by a Basic Law passed by a majority of the members of the Knesset.
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