Basic Law: The Government
חוק-יסוד: הממשלה
Published: 2001-03-18Consolidated Hebrew text as of 2026-07-22 · Last amended 2025-05-13✓ Amendment status checked against the Knesset legislation record on 2026-09-28
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Nature§
1.
The Government is the executive authority of the State.
Place of residence§
2.
The place of residence of the Government is Jerusalem.
Confidence of the Knesset in the Government§
3.
The Government serves by virtue of the confidence of the Knesset.
Responsibility§
4.
The Government is collectively responsible before the Knesset; a Minister is responsible before the Prime Minister for the functions over which the Minister is appointed.
Composition of the Government§
5.
(a)The Government is composed of the Prime Minister and other Ministers, and in a rotation government — also of an alternate prime minister.
(b)The Prime Minister, and in a rotation government — also the alternate prime minister, shall be a member of the Knesset; another Minister may be a person who is not a member of the Knesset.
(c)A Minister shall be appointed over a ministry; however, there may be a Minister without portfolio or an additional Minister in a ministry as detailed in section 24a.
(d)One of the Ministers who is a member of the Knesset may serve as Acting Prime Minister.
(e)A Minister may serve as Deputy Prime Minister.
(f)(Repealed)
Qualifications of Ministers§
6.
(a)A person who is not an Israeli citizen and resident of Israel shall not be appointed as Minister.
(b)A person who holds an office or position listed in section 7 of Basic Law: The Knesset shall not be appointed as Minister, unless that person has ceased to hold that office or position prior to the appointment or at an earlier date, as shall be prescribed by law.
(c)
(1)A person who has been convicted of an offence and sentenced to actual imprisonment shall not be appointed as Minister if, on the day of appointment, seven years have not yet elapsed from the day on which that person completed serving the sentence of actual imprisonment, unless the Chairperson of the Central Elections Committee has determined that the offence of which the person was convicted does not, in the circumstances of the matter, involve moral turpitude.
(2)The Chairperson of the Central Elections Committee shall not make a determination as referred to in paragraph (1) if a court has determined, in accordance with law, that the offence of which the person was convicted involves moral turpitude.
(d)A person who holds citizenship other than Israeli citizenship shall not be appointed as Minister if the laws of the state of which that person is a citizen permit release from that citizenship, unless that person has done everything required on their part in order to be released from it.
(e)A member of the Knesset who has left their faction and has not resigned from office shortly after leaving shall not become a Minister during the term of office of that Knesset; this provision shall not apply to the splitting of a faction under conditions prescribed by law; for the purposes of this subsection, "leaving a faction" has the meaning assigned to it in section 6a of Basic Law: The Knesset.
(f)For the purposes of this section —
"actual imprisonment" includes a suspended sentence of imprisonment that has been activated;
"offence" means each of the offences for which the person was sentenced to actual imprisonment.
Assignment of the task of forming a Government§
7.
(a)When a new Government is to be formed, the President of the State shall, after consulting with representatives of the factions in the Knesset, assign the task of forming a Government to a member of the Knesset who has agreed to accept it; the President shall assign the task as aforesaid within seven days from the day of publication of the election results or from the day on which the cause for forming a new Government arose, and in the case of the death of the Prime Minister — within 14 days from the day of death.
(b)If the consultation took place before the new Knesset convened, the President shall consult with representatives of the lists of candidates that will be represented in the new Knesset.
(c)This section shall not apply to the formation of a Government following a vote of no-confidence under section 28 or following the submission of a request to the President of the State under section 29(b), and the provisions set out in those sections shall apply.
Period for forming a Government§
8.
A member of the Knesset upon whom the President of the State has assigned the task of forming a Government under section 7 is given a period of 28 days in which to fulfil the task; the President may extend this period by additional periods, provided that they do not together exceed 14 days.
Re-assignment of the task§
9.
(a)If the period under section 8 has passed and the member of the Knesset has not notified the President of the State that a Government has been formed, or has notified the President beforehand that the member is unable to form a Government, or has presented a Government and the Knesset has rejected the request to express confidence in it under section 13(d), the President shall assign the task of forming a Government to another member of the Knesset who has notified the President of willingness to accept the task, or shall notify the Speaker of the Knesset that the President sees no possibility of reaching the formation of a Government, all within three days from the day the period has passed or from the day of the notification by the member of the Knesset that the member is unable to form a Government, or from the day of the rejection of the request to express confidence in the Government, as the case may be.
(b)Before assigning the task of forming a Government under this section, or before notifying the Speaker of the Knesset that the President sees no possibility of reaching the formation of a Government, the President may again consult with representatives of factions in the Knesset.
(c)A member of the Knesset upon whom the task of forming a Government has been assigned under this section is given a period of 28 days in which to fulfil the task.
Assignment of the task at the request of a majority of members of the Knesset§
10.
(a)If the President of the State has notified the Speaker of the Knesset, under section 9(a), that the President sees no possibility of reaching the formation of a Government, or has assigned the task of forming a Government to a member of the Knesset under that section and the member of the Knesset has not notified the President within 28 days that a Government has been formed, or has notified the President beforehand that the member is unable to form a Government, or has presented a Government and the Knesset has rejected the request to express confidence in it under section 13(d), a majority of the members of the Knesset may request of the President of the State, in writing, to assign the task to a particular member of the Knesset who has agreed to this in writing, all within 21 days from the day of the President's notification, or from the day on which the period under section 9(c) has passed, or from the day of the notification by the member of the Knesset that the member is unable to form a Government, or from the day of the rejection of the request to express confidence in the Government, as the case may be.
(b)If a request as referred to in subsection (a) has been submitted to the President, the President shall, within two days, assign the task of forming a Government to the member of the Knesset specified in the request.
(c)A member of the Knesset upon whom the task of forming a Government has been assigned under this section is given a period of 14 days in which to fulfil the task.
Early elections in the absence of a Government§
11.
(a)If no request as referred to in section 10(a) has been submitted, or if a member of the Knesset has not formed a Government within the period given under section 10(c), or has notified the President beforehand that the member is unable to form a Government, the President of the State shall notify the Speaker of the Knesset accordingly.
(b)If the President has given notice as referred to in subsection (a), or if the member of the Knesset upon whom the task of forming a Government was assigned under section 10(a) has presented a Government and the Knesset has rejected the request to express confidence in it under section 13(d), the Knesset shall be deemed to have decided on its dissolution before the end of its term of office, and elections for the Knesset shall be held on the last Tuesday before the end of 90 days from the day of the President's notification, or from the day of the rejection of the request to express confidence in the Government, as the case may be.
Cessation of proceedings for forming a Government§
12.
If a law on the dissolution of the Knesset has been passed, the proceedings for forming a Government shall cease.
Formation of the Government§
13.
(a)When the President of the State has assigned to a member of the Knesset the task of forming a Government, the President shall notify the Speaker of the Knesset thereof, and the Speaker of the Knesset shall notify the Knesset accordingly.
(b)When a member of the Knesset has formed a Government, the member shall notify the President of the State and the Speaker of the Knesset thereof, and the Speaker of the Knesset shall notify the Knesset accordingly and shall fix a sitting, for the purpose of forming the Government, within seven days from the day of the notification to the Knesset under this subsection.
(c)The member of the Knesset who has formed a Government shall head it.
(d)Once the Government has been formed, it shall appear before the Knesset, announce the basic lines of its policy, its composition and the distribution of functions or areas of activity among the Ministers, and request a vote of confidence; the Government shall be formed once the Knesset has expressed confidence in it, and from that moment the Ministers shall enter into office.
Formation of a rotation government§
13a.
(a)In this Basic Law —
"rotation date" means a specified date on which the rotation between the Prime Minister and the alternate prime minister and between the alternate prime minister and the Prime Minister is to take place;
"rotation government" means a Government at the head of which, during its term of office, the member of the Knesset who formed the Government and an additional member of the Knesset shall serve alternately;
"alternate prime minister" means the member of the Knesset designated to serve as Prime Minister in a rotation government and the member of the Knesset who served in that rotation government as Prime Minister before the rotation.
(b)Notwithstanding the provisions of section 13(c), the Government that is formed may be a rotation government in accordance with the provisions of this Basic Law.
(c)In a rotation government, every Minister and Deputy Minister shall be identified as affiliated with the Prime Minister or with the alternate prime minister.
(d)
(1)The number of Ministers identified as affiliated with the Prime Minister shall be equal to the number of Ministers identified as affiliated with the alternate prime minister; however, if the number of Ministers is not equal as aforesaid, the Government shall establish a voting mechanism according to which the voting power of all the Ministers affiliated with the Prime Minister in the Government shall be equal to the voting power of all the Ministers affiliated with the alternate prime minister, or rules regarding the manner of decision-making that will ensure such a ratio;
(2)The provisions of paragraph (1) shall also apply to ministerial committees, except for ministerial committees whose membership has been determined by law, if that law does not permit the Government to appoint additional members to them.
(e)Without derogating from the provisions of section 13(d), once a rotation government has been formed, it shall appear before the Knesset, announce the following details, and request a vote of confidence:
(1)the identity of the Prime Minister and the identity of the alternate prime minister;
(2)the rotation date;
(3)the identity of the Ministers affiliated with the Prime Minister and the identity of the Ministers affiliated with the alternate prime minister;
the rotation government shall be formed once the Knesset has expressed confidence in it, and from that moment the Ministers shall enter into office.
(f)Once the Knesset has expressed confidence in the rotation government, or as soon as possible thereafter —
(1)the Prime Minister shall declare before the Knesset the following declaration of allegiance with respect to the period of service as Prime Minister before the rotation date and with respect to the period of service as alternate prime minister after the rotation date: "I (name) undertake, as Prime Minister and as future alternate prime minister, to bear allegiance to the State of Israel and its laws, to faithfully fulfil my duties as Prime Minister and as alternate prime minister, and to uphold the decisions of the Knesset";
(2)the alternate prime minister shall declare before the Knesset the following declaration of allegiance with respect to the period of service as alternate prime minister before the rotation date and with respect to the period of service as Prime Minister after the rotation date: "I (name) undertake, as alternate prime minister and as future Prime Minister, to bear allegiance to the State of Israel and its laws, to faithfully fulfil my duties as alternate prime minister and as Prime Minister, and to uphold the decisions of the Knesset".
(g)Without derogating from the provisions of section 13(d), once the Knesset has expressed confidence in a rotation government, upon the arrival of the rotation date the rotation shall be carried out as follows:
(1)the term of office of the Prime Minister shall cease and the alternate prime minister shall commence service as Prime Minister;
(2)at that same moment, simultaneously, the person whose term of office as Prime Minister has ceased shall commence service as alternate prime minister.
(h)The carrying out of the rotation as referred to in subsection (g) does not require an additional vote of confidence by the Knesset or an additional declaration of allegiance by the Prime Minister and the alternate prime minister, and the rotation shall not be regarded as the resignation of the Government, the resignation of the Prime Minister, the resignation of the alternate prime minister, or the formation of a new Government.
Declaration of allegiance§
14.
Once the Knesset has expressed confidence in the Government, or as soon as possible thereafter, the Prime Minister shall declare before the Knesset the following declaration of allegiance: "I (name) undertake, as Prime Minister, to bear allegiance to the State of Israel and its laws, to faithfully fulfil my duties as Prime Minister, and to uphold the decisions of the Knesset"; and each of the other Ministers shall declare the following declaration of allegiance: "I (name) undertake, as a member of the Government, to bear allegiance to the State of Israel and its laws, to faithfully fulfil my duties as a member of the Government, and to uphold the decisions of the Knesset".
Addition of a Minister§
15.
The Government may, on the proposal of the Prime Minister, add an additional Minister to the Government; if the Government has decided to add a Minister, it shall notify the Knesset thereof and of the functions or areas of activity for which the additional Minister is responsible; upon approval of the notification by the Knesset, the additional Minister shall enter into office, and as soon as possible after the approval shall declare the declaration of allegiance.
Acting Prime Minister§
16.
(a)When the Prime Minister is absent from the country, the Acting Prime Minister shall convene and chair the sittings of the Government.
(b)When the Prime Minister is temporarily prevented from fulfilling the duties of office, the Acting Prime Minister shall fill the position; if 100 consecutive days have passed during which the Acting Prime Minister has served in place of the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister has not returned to fulfil the duties of office, the Prime Minister shall be deemed to be permanently prevented from fulfilling the duties of office.
(b1)
(1)The prevention of the Prime Minister from fulfilling the duties of office as referred to in subsection (b) shall be by reason of physical or mental incapacity only, and shall be determined in one of the following two ways only:
(a)
(1)if the Prime Minister has notified the Government and the Speaker of the Knesset that the Prime Minister is temporarily prevented from fulfilling the duties of office by reason of physical or mental incapacity and the Knesset Committee has approved the notification by a majority of two-thirds of its members;
(2)if the Prime Minister has given notice as referred to in sub-paragraph (1), the Prime Minister may notify the Government and the Speaker of the Knesset of the duration of the prevention in the same notification or in a separate notification;
(3)the Speaker of the Knesset shall notify the Knesset of the notifications of the Prime Minister under sub-paragraphs (1) and (2);
(b)
(1)if the Government has decided, by a majority of three-quarters of its members, that the Prime Minister is temporarily prevented from fulfilling the duties of office by reason of physical or mental incapacity; the Prime Minister shall convene the Government on this matter at the request of three-fifths of the members of the Government within three days from the date of submission of the request or at a later date if the request so specifies; if the sitting of the Government was not convened at the said time, the Secretary of the Government shall immediately convene the Government and the Acting Prime Minister shall chair the sitting, and subsection (c) shall apply with the necessary modifications;
(2)if the Government has decided that the Prime Minister is temporarily prevented from fulfilling the duties of office as referred to in paragraph (1), the decision shall remain in force for three days and shall be brought for approval by the Knesset Committee; the Knesset Committee shall approve the decision of the Government by a majority of two-thirds of its members, and if the decision of the Government was given on health grounds, the decision of the Knesset Committee shall also be based on a medical opinion given in accordance with rules established by the Knesset Committee; if the Knesset Committee has approved the decision of the Government, it may determine that the prevention shall not continue for more than seven days from the day of the Committee's decision;
(3)if the Prime Minister has not submitted a medical opinion in accordance with the rules established by the Knesset Committee, the Prime Minister shall be deemed to have given notice of prevention under sub-paragraph (a); the prevention under this paragraph shall not continue for more than seven days;
(4)the extension of the prevention beyond that referred to in paragraphs (2) or (3) requires a decision of the Knesset, on the proposal of the Knesset Committee, adopted by a majority of eighty members of the Knesset; the Knesset may determine that the prevention shall not continue for more than 21 days at a time, provided that the total of the periods does not exceed that referred to in subsection (b);
(2)the Knesset Committee may determine the end of the prevention of the Prime Minister that was determined under paragraph (1)(b)(2) or (4) by a decision of a majority of the members of the Committee, and if the prevention was determined on health grounds — based on a medical opinion given in accordance with rules established by the Committee; the Chairperson of the Knesset Committee shall notify the Knesset of the Committee's decision;
(3)the provisions of section 31 of Basic Law: The Knesset or pursuant thereto shall not apply to the time limits prescribed in this subsection.
(c)If there is no Acting Prime Minister or if the Acting Prime Minister is prevented from fulfilling the functions under subsections (a) and (b), the Government shall designate another Minister, who is a member of the Knesset, to fulfil those functions.
Investigation of the Prime Minister during and after the term of office, filing of an indictment and conviction§
17.
(a)A criminal investigation against the Prime Minister shall not be opened except with the consent of the Attorney General.
(b)A criminal investigation against a person who served as Prime Minister, on suspicion of committing an offence that was committed during the term of office or within one year after ceasing to serve, shall not be opened except with the consent of the Attorney General.
(c)An indictment against the Prime Minister shall be filed by the Attorney General in the District Court in Jerusalem, sitting as a panel of three judges; provisions regarding an indictment filed before the Prime Minister commenced serving in office shall be prescribed by law.
(d)A court that has convicted the Prime Minister of an offence shall determine in its judgment whether that offence involves moral turpitude.
Termination of office of the Prime Minister on account of an offence§
18.
(a)The Knesset may, by a decision of a majority of its members, remove from office a Prime Minister who has been convicted of an offence and in respect of which the court determined in its judgment that it involves moral turpitude; if the Knesset has so decided, the Government shall be deemed to have resigned upon the adoption of the decision.
(b)Within 30 days from the day of the giving of the judgment referred to in subsection (a), the Knesset Committee of the Knesset shall decide on its recommendation regarding the removal of the Prime Minister from office and shall bring its recommendation before the plenary of the Knesset; if the Knesset Committee has not brought its recommendation within the said period, the Speaker of the Knesset shall bring the matter for discussion in the plenary of the Knesset.
(c)The Knesset Committee and the Knesset shall not decide on the removal of the Prime Minister from office unless the Prime Minister has been given an opportunity to present arguments before them.
(d)If the Prime Minister has not been removed from office under this section and the judgment referred to in subsection (a) has become final, the term of office of the Prime Minister shall cease and the Government shall be deemed to have resigned on the day on which the judgment became final.
(e)The provisions of sections 42a and 42b of Basic Law: The Knesset shall not apply to the Prime Minister.
Resignation of the Prime Minister§
19.
The Prime Minister may, after having notified the Government of the intention to do so, resign by submitting a letter of resignation to the President of the State; the resignation of the Prime Minister shall be treated as the resignation of the Government.
Prime Minister who has died or who is permanently incapacitated from fulfilling the role§
20.
(a)If the Prime Minister has died, the Government is deemed to have resigned on the day of death.
(b)If the Prime Minister is permanently incapacitated from fulfilling his role, the Government is deemed to have resigned on the 101st day on which an acting Prime Minister serves in his place.
Prime Minister or acting Prime Minister who has ceased to be a member of the Knesset§
21.
(a)A Prime Minister who has ceased to be a member of the Knesset is deemed to have resigned from office on the day on which his membership of the Knesset ceased; the resignation of the Prime Minister shall be deemed the resignation of the Government.
(b)A Minister serving as acting Prime Minister who has ceased to be a member of the Knesset shall cease to serve in his role as acting Prime Minister.
Termination of a Minister's tenure§
22.
(a)A Minister, other than the Prime Minister, may, after notifying the Government of his intention to do so, resign from the Government by submitting a letter of resignation to the Prime Minister; his tenure in the Government ceases 48 hours after the letter of resignation has been delivered to the Prime Minister, unless the Minister has withdrawn the resignation before that time; if the said period ends on a day of rest, its end shall be deferred to the following day that is not a day of rest, all as shall be prescribed by law.
(b)The Prime Minister may, after notifying the Government of his intention to do so, dismiss a Minister from office; the tenure of a Minister ceases 48 hours after the letter of dismissal from office has been delivered to him, unless the Prime Minister has withdrawn the dismissal before that time; if the said period ends on a day of rest, its end shall be deferred to the following day that is not a day of rest, all as shall be prescribed by law.
(c)The tenure of a Minister in the Government ceases upon his election or appointment to one of the offices whose holders are precluded from being candidates for the Knesset.
Termination of a Minister's tenure on account of an offence§
23.
(a)An indictment against a Minister, except for offences to be prescribed by law, shall be filed and heard in a District Court; provisions regarding an indictment filed before the Minister began serving in office shall be prescribed by law.
(b)A court that has convicted a Minister of an offence shall determine in its judgment whether that offence involves moral turpitude; if the court so determined, the Minister's tenure shall cease on the day the judgment is given.
(c)This Section shall not apply to the Prime Minister.
Acting for a Minister§
24.
(a)If a Minister, other than the Prime Minister, is absent from the country, the Government may determine that another Minister shall act in his place; the acting Minister shall fulfil the duties of the Minister, all or some of them, as the Government shall determine.
(b)If a Minister has ceased to serve or is temporarily incapacitated from fulfilling his role, the Prime Minister or another Minister as determined by the Government shall fulfil the role.
(c)The period of acting for a Minister who has ceased to serve as referred to in subsection (b) shall not exceed three months.
Additional Minister in a ministry§
24a.
In a ministry headed by a Minister, an additional Minister may be appointed, who shall be responsible, subject to the Minister heading the ministry, for certain areas within the areas of activity of the ministry.
Deputy Ministers§
25.
(a)A Minister heading a ministry may, with the agreement of the Prime Minister and with the approval of the Government, appoint one Deputy Minister to that ministry from among the members of the Knesset; however, the Prime Minister may appoint two Deputy Ministers in the Prime Minister's Office as aforesaid; a Deputy Minister shall enter office once the Government has notified the Knesset of his appointment; a Deputy Minister appointed by the Prime Minister shall be called "Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Office".
(a1)As soon as possible after his appointment, the Deputy Minister shall make the following declaration of allegiance before the Knesset: "I (name) undertake to bear allegiance to the State of Israel and its laws, to fulfil faithfully my role as Deputy Minister, and to uphold the decisions of the Knesset."
(b)A Deputy Minister shall act in the Knesset and in the ministry to which he was appointed, in the name of the Minister who appointed him and within the framework of the matters entrusted to him.
(c)A member of the Knesset who has seceded from his faction shall not be appointed Deputy Minister during the term of that Knesset; this provision shall not apply to the splitting of a faction under conditions prescribed by law; for the purposes of this subsection, "secession from a faction" has the meaning assigned to it in section 6a of Basic Law: The Knesset.
(d)(Repealed)
Expiry of a Deputy Minister's tenure§
26.
The tenure of a Deputy Minister ceases in any of the following:
(1)the Deputy Minister has resigned by submitting a letter of resignation to the Minister who appointed him; the tenure of the Deputy Minister ceases 48 hours after the letter of resignation has been delivered to the Minister who appointed him, unless the Deputy Minister has withdrawn the resignation before that time; if the said period ends on a day of rest, its end shall be deferred to the following day that is not a day of rest, all as shall be prescribed by law;
(2)the Minister who appointed him has ceased to be a Minister or to head that ministry;
(3)the Prime Minister, the Government, or the Minister who appointed the Deputy Minister has decided to terminate his tenure; however, the Prime Minister shall not dismiss a Deputy Minister from office unless he has notified the Government and the Minister who appointed the Deputy Minister of his intention to do so; the tenure of the Deputy Minister ceases 48 hours after the letter of dismissal from office has been delivered to him as aforesaid, unless the Prime Minister, the Government, or the Minister who appointed him, as the case may be, has withdrawn the dismissal before that time; if the said period ends on a day of rest, its end shall be deferred to the following day that is not a day of rest, all as shall be prescribed by law;
(4)a new Government has been formed;
(5)the Deputy Minister has ceased to be a member of the Knesset, unless his membership of the Knesset ceased pursuant to the provisions of section 42c of Basic Law: The Knesset and the term of office of that Knesset has not yet ended.
Termination of a Deputy Minister's tenure on account of an offence§
27.
A court that has convicted a Deputy Minister of an offence shall determine in its judgment whether that offence involves moral turpitude; if the court so determined, the tenure of the Deputy Minister shall cease on the day the judgment is given.
Vote of no confidence in the Government§
28.
(a)The Knesset may express no confidence in the Government.
(b)A vote of no confidence in the Government shall be effected by a decision of the Knesset, by a majority of its members, to express confidence in another Government that has announced its basic policy guidelines, its composition, and the allocation of responsibilities among the Ministers as referred to in section 13(d); the new Government shall be formed once the Knesset has expressed confidence in it, and from that moment the Ministers shall enter office.
(c)Details regarding the submission of a motion to express no confidence in the Government and the debate thereon shall be prescribed by law or by the Rules of Procedure of the Knesset; if the motion has been submitted by 61 members of the Knesset, the debate shall take place as soon as possible, and no later than one week from the day of its submission.
Power to dissolve the Knesset§
29.
(a)If the Prime Minister finds that a majority in the Knesset is opposed to the Government, and that as a result the normal functioning of the Government is being prevented, he may, with the consent of the President of the State, dissolve the Knesset by an Order to be published in Reshumot (Official Gazette); the Order shall come into force 21 days after the day of its publication, unless a request has been submitted pursuant to subsection (b), and the Government is deemed to have resigned on the day of publication of the Order.
(b)Within 21 days from the day of publication of the Order, a majority of the members of the Knesset may request in writing from the President of the State to task a specified member of the Knesset, who has agreed thereto in writing and who is not the Prime Minister, with forming a Government.
(c)If a request as referred to in subsection (b) has been submitted to the President of the State, the President shall notify the Speaker of the Knesset thereof; the President shall, within two days, assign to the member of the Knesset named in the request the task of forming a Government.
(d)The member of the Knesset upon whom the President of the State has assigned the task of forming a Government pursuant to this Section shall have a period of 28 days to fulfil the task; the President may extend this period by additional periods, provided that together they do not exceed 14 days.
(e)If no request as referred to in subsection (b) has been submitted, or the period referred to in subsection (d) has elapsed and the member of the Knesset has not notified the President that he has formed a Government, or has previously notified him that he is unable to form a Government, the President of the State shall notify the Speaker of the Knesset thereof.
(f)If the President of the State has given notice as referred to in subsection (e), or if the member of the Knesset assigned the task of forming a Government pursuant to this Section has presented a Government and the Knesset has rejected the request to express confidence therein pursuant to section 13(d), the Knesset shall be deemed to have decided on its dissolution before the end of its term of office, and elections to the Knesset shall be held on the last Tuesday before the end of 90 days from the day the Order came into force, or from the day the period for forming a Government ended, or from the day of notification to the President, or from the day the request to express confidence in the Government was rejected, as the case may be.
(g)The Prime Minister shall not be entitled to exercise his power under this Section —
(1)from the commencement of the term of a new Knesset until the formation of the new Government;
(2)(deleted)
(3)after the resignation of the Prime Minister, or from the day of the giving of a judgment determining that he committed an offence involving moral turpitude until the day of the decision of the Knesset pursuant to section 18(a).
(h)A Minister acting in place of the Prime Minister shall not be entitled to exercise the power vested in the Prime Minister pursuant to this Section.
Continuity of the Government§
30.
(a)Upon the election of a new Knesset or the resignation of the Government as referred to in sections 18, 19, 20 or 21, or upon the submission of a request pursuant to section 29(b), the President of the State shall initiate proceedings for the formation of a new Government as provided in this Basic Law.
(b)Upon the election of a new Knesset or the resignation of the Government as referred to in sections 18, 19, 20, 21 or 29, the outgoing Government shall continue to fulfil its functions until the new Government is formed.
(c)A Prime Minister who has resigned shall continue to fulfil his role until the new Government is formed; if the Prime Minister has died, is permanently incapacitated from fulfilling his role, or his tenure has been terminated on account of an offence, the Government shall designate another Minister who is a member of the Knesset and a member of the Prime Minister's faction to serve as Acting Prime Minister until the new Government is formed.
(d)A Government serving pursuant to subsection (b) may appoint a member of the Knesset to be a Minister in the role of a Minister who has ceased to serve; the appointment of a Minister pursuant to this subsection does not require the approval of the Knesset; in this subsection, "member of the Knesset" includes a Minister or Deputy Minister whose membership of the Knesset has ceased pursuant to section 42c of Basic Law: The Knesset.
Assignment of the task of forming a Government to a Minister or Deputy Minister whose membership of the Knesset has ceased§
30a.
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 7 to 11, 13 and 29, the task of forming a Government may be assigned to a Minister or Deputy Minister whose membership of the Knesset has ceased pursuant to section 42c of Basic Law: The Knesset, a request may be made to assign to him the task of forming a Government, or he may be proposed as a candidate for Prime Minister, in accordance with the provisions of those sections, even though he is not a member of the Knesset; however, upon becoming Prime Minister, his membership of the Knesset shall be renewed in accordance with the provisions of section 42c(c)(2) of Basic Law: The Knesset.
Acting Prime Minister, Acting Prime Minister in practice, or alternate Prime Minister who is a Minister or Deputy Minister whose membership of the Knesset has ceased§
30b.
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 5(d), 16(c), 30(c) and 43a, a Minister whose membership of the Knesset has ceased pursuant to section 42c of Basic Law: The Knesset may be chosen, in accordance with the provisions of those sections, as acting Prime Minister or as Acting Prime Minister in practice, or a Minister or Deputy Minister whose membership of the Knesset has ceased as aforesaid may be chosen as alternate Prime Minister, even though he is not a member of the Knesset; however, upon being so chosen, his membership of the Knesset shall be renewed in accordance with the provisions of section 42c(c) of that Basic Law.
Functioning of the Government§
31.
(a)The Government may, with the approval of the Knesset, change the allocation of responsibilities among the Ministers, except for the role of Prime Minister.
(b)The Government may, with the approval of the Knesset, transfer a power vested by law in one Minister, or a duty imposed upon him by law, in whole or in part, to another Minister.
(c)The Government may, with the approval of the Knesset, merge ministries, divide them, abolish them, and establish new ministries.
(c1)The Government may, with the approval of the Knesset, decide that a Minister shall serve as an additional Minister in a ministry and determine certain areas within the areas of activity of the ministry for which that Minister shall be responsible, subject to the Minister heading the ministry, in accordance with the provisions of section 24a.
(c2)The Government may, in a ministry in which an additional Minister serves, transfer areas of activity between him and the Minister heading the ministry.
(d)The Government may transfer areas of activity from one ministry to another.
(e)The Government may appoint standing, temporary, or ad hoc ministerial committees; once a committee has been appointed, the Government may act through it.
(f)The Government shall determine the arrangements for its sessions and work, the procedures for its deliberations, and the manner of adopting its decisions, whether on a permanent basis or for a particular matter.
Residual powers of the Government§
32.
The Government is competent to perform, in the name of the State, subject to any law, any act the performance of which is not imposed by law upon another authority.
Delegation of powers§
33.
(a)The Government may delegate a power vested by law in the Government to one of the Ministers; this Section shall not apply to the powers of the Government under this Basic Law, except for powers under section 32.
(b)A power vested in one of the Ministers by law or transferred to him pursuant to section 31(b), except for the power to make Regulations, may be delegated by the Minister, in whole, in part, or subject to conditions, to a public servant.
(c)A power that the Government has delegated to a Minister, except for the power to make Regulations, may be delegated by the Minister, in whole, in part, or subject to conditions, to a public servant, if the Government has authorised him to do so.
(c1)If the Prime Minister serves as the Minister heading a ministry, he may delegate his power, in accordance with the provisions of subsections (b) or (c), also to a Deputy Minister in that ministry.
(d)In this Section, a power vested in the Government or in a Minister includes a duty imposed upon them.
(e)The provisions of this Section shall apply unless a contrary intention is implied by the law conferring the power or imposing the duty.
Assumption of powers§
34.
A Minister responsible for the implementation of a law may assume any power, except a power of a judicial nature, vested by that law in a State employee, unless a contrary intention is implied by the law; the Minister may do so in relation to a particular matter or for a particular period.
Confidentiality§
35.
(a)The deliberations and decisions of the Government and of ministerial committees regarding the following matters are confidential and their disclosure and publication are prohibited:
(1)the security of the State;
(2)the foreign relations of the State;
(3)another category of matters whose confidentiality the Government has deemed essential to the State and which it has declared by Order for the purposes of this Section;
(4)a matter which the Government has decided to keep confidential, provided that the disclosure and publication of such a matter is prohibited only in respect of a person who was aware of the decision.
(b)The provisions of subsection (a) shall not apply to matters whose publication has been permitted by the Government or the Prime Minister, or by a person authorised by the Government or the Prime Minister to do so, or to matters whose publication is required by law.
Salary and benefits§
36.
The salaries of Ministers and Deputy Ministers and other payments to be paid to them during or after their term of office, or to their survivors after their death, shall be prescribed by law, or by a decision of the Knesset or of a committee thereof that the Knesset has authorised to do so.
Regulations§
37.
(a)A Minister responsible for the implementation of a law is empowered to make Regulations for its implementation.
(b)A law may empower the Prime Minister or a Minister to make Regulations on a matter specified in the empowerment.
Declaration of a state of emergency§
38.
(a)If the Knesset finds that a state of emergency exists in the State, it may, on its own initiative or on the proposal of the Government, declare a state of emergency.
(b)The period of validity of the declaration shall be as specified therein, but shall not exceed one year; the Knesset may repeatedly declare a state of emergency as aforesaid.
(c)If the Government finds that a state of emergency exists in the State and that, owing to the urgency of the matter, it is necessary to declare a state of emergency before the Knesset can be convened, it may declare a state of emergency; the declaration shall expire after seven days from the date of its making, unless it has been approved or revoked earlier by the Knesset by a decision of a majority of its members; if the Knesset has not convened, the Government may repeatedly declare a state of emergency as provided in this subsection.
(d)Declarations by the Knesset or the Government of a state of emergency shall be published in Reshumot (Official Gazette); if a declaration of a state of emergency cannot be published in Reshumot (Official Gazette), the declaration shall be published in another appropriate manner, provided that it shall be published in Reshumot (Official Gazette) as soon as this becomes possible.
(e)The Knesset may, at any time, revoke a declaration of a state of emergency; notice of the revocation shall be published in Reshumot (Official Gazette).
Making of emergency Regulations§
39.
(a)During a state of emergency the Government may make emergency Regulations for the purpose of defending the State, public security and the maintenance of essential supplies and services; emergency Regulations shall be laid on the table of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee of the Knesset as soon as practicable after their making.
(b)If the Prime Minister finds that the Government cannot be convened and that there is an urgent and vital need to make emergency Regulations, he may make them or empower a Minister to make them.
(c)Emergency Regulations may amend any law, temporarily suspend its effect or subject it to conditions, and may also impose or increase taxes or other compulsory payments, all unless otherwise provided by law.
(d)Emergency Regulations may not prevent recourse to judicial proceedings, impose retroactive punishment, or permit infringement of human dignity.
(e)Emergency Regulations shall not be made, and arrangements, measures and powers shall not be exercised by virtue thereof, except to the extent that the state of emergency so requires.
(f)Emergency Regulations shall expire after three months from the date of their making, unless their effect has been extended by law, or they have been revoked by the Knesset by law or by a decision of a majority of the members of the Knesset.
(g)Emergency Regulations shall enter into force upon their publication in Reshumot (Official Gazette); if they cannot be published in Reshumot (Official Gazette), they shall be published in another appropriate manner, provided that they shall be published in Reshumot (Official Gazette) as soon as this becomes possible.
(h)If the state of emergency ceases to exist, emergency Regulations shall continue to subsist for their period of validity but for no more than 60 days from the end of the state of emergency; emergency Regulations whose validity has been extended by law shall continue to remain in force.
Declaration of war or taking of significant military action§
40.
(a)The State shall not go to war and shall not take significant military action that is liable to lead, with near certainty, to war, except by virtue of a decision of the Government.
(a1)Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) and of section 33(a), the Government may decide to delegate its authority under subsection (a), generally or in a particular case, to a ministerial committee established by law; if the Government has decided to delegate its authority to the ministerial committee, the ministerial committee shall exercise its authority only if the Prime Minister has found that the exercise of the authority by the committee, instead of by the Government, is required, in the circumstances of the matter, for reasons of national security or of the State's foreign relations, including reasons of confidentiality connected therewith.
(a2)(Repealed)
(b)Nothing in this section shall prevent other military actions required for the purpose of defending the State and public security.
(c)Notice of the Government's decision to go to war or to take significant military action pursuant to subsection (a) shall be given to the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee of the Knesset as soon as possible, and if the decision was taken by the ministerial committee as referred to in subsection (a1), notice thereof shall be given as soon as possible to the Government and to a sub-committee of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee of the Knesset; the Prime Minister shall give notice as soon as possible also at the plenary of the Knesset; notice of other military actions as referred to in subsection (b) shall be given to the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee of the Knesset as soon as possible.
Non-application of emergency Regulations§
41.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, emergency Regulations may not amend this Basic Law, temporarily suspend its effect, or subject it to conditions.
The Government and Knesset committees§
42.
(a)The Government shall provide the Knesset and its committees with information upon their request and shall assist them in the performance of their functions; special provisions shall be prescribed by law for the classification of information where this is necessary for the protection of national security and foreign relations or the State's international commercial relations, or for the protection of a right or privilege under law.
(b)The Knesset may, upon the demand of at least forty of its members, hold a debate with the participation of the Prime Minister on a matter that has been decided upon; such a demand may be submitted no more than once a month.
(c)The Knesset, and any of its committees in the framework of the performance of its functions, may require a Minister to appear before them and may require a Deputy Minister, through the Minister who appointed him or with his knowledge, to appear before them.
(d)A committee of the Knesset may, in the framework of the performance of its functions, through the Minister concerned or with his knowledge, require a State employee or any person to be prescribed by law to appear before it.
(e)A Minister may present his remarks before the Knesset and its committees.
(f)Details regarding the implementation of this section may be prescribed by law or in the Knesset Rules of Procedure.
Change of date of elections§
43.
Where a date for elections to the Knesset has been set pursuant to sections 11 and 29, the Knesset may, by a decision passed by a majority of its members, within five days from the date on which the grounds for holding the elections arose, determine that, owing to the proximity of the date of elections to a festival, occasion or day of remembrance, the elections shall be postponed to a date to be determined by it that is not later than 100 days from the date on which the grounds arose.
Rotation between Prime Minister and Alternate Prime Minister other than at the date of rotation§
43a.
(a)If the Prime Minister in a rotation Government ceases to serve in his office during the period prior to the date of rotation, the Government shall be deemed to have resigned, and the continuity provisions of section 30(b) shall apply with respect to the tenure of the Government and the Prime Minister; however, in each of the following cases, the Government shall not be deemed to have resigned and the other provisions of this section shall apply:
(1)the Prime Minister's tenure was terminated pursuant to section 18(d);
(2)the Prime Minister chose on his own initiative to resign from the Government, pursuant to section 19;
(3)the Prime Minister passed away, as referred to in section 20(a);
(4)the Prime Minister was permanently incapacitated from fulfilling his functions, for health reasons only, and 100 days have elapsed during which an acting substitute served in his stead, pursuant to section 20(b);
(5)the Prime Minister chose on his own initiative to resign from the Knesset, pursuant to section 21(a).
(b)If the Prime Minister in a rotation Government ceases to serve in his office for one of the reasons enumerated in the latter part of subsection (a), during the period prior to the date of rotation, the provisions of subsections (c) and (d) shall apply.
(c)The Alternate Prime Minister shall serve in his stead as Prime Minister for the period of time that the Alternate Prime Minister was due to serve as Prime Minister from the date of rotation until the end of the term of office of the Knesset; if the period of tenure of the Alternate Prime Minister as Prime Minister as aforesaid has ended, the provisions of subsection (d) shall apply.
(d)
(1)If the Prime Minister ceased to serve in his office pursuant to subsection (a)(4) and his state of health permits his return to office — he shall resume serving as Prime Minister;
(2)If the Prime Minister ceased to serve in his office pursuant to subsection (a)(1), (2), (3) or (5), or ceased to serve in his office pursuant to subsection (a)(4) and his state of health does not permit his return to office — his faction may elect a member of the Knesset from that faction, who shall request from the Knesset a vote of confidence to serve in place of the Prime Minister whose tenure ceased as aforesaid, all up to one week before the end of the period of tenure of the Alternate Prime Minister as Prime Minister;
(3)Upon the Knesset expressing confidence in the member of the Knesset referred to in paragraph (2), or as soon as practicable thereafter, the member of the Knesset shall make a declaration of allegiance as referred to in section 13a(f) or section 14, as the case may be, and shall begin to serve as Prime Minister upon the end of the period of tenure of the person who ceased to serve as Prime Minister;
(4)If the faction has not elected a member of the Knesset from that faction in place of the Prime Minister who ceased to serve as referred to in paragraph (2) by one week before the end of the period of tenure of the Prime Minister, or if the faction elected a member of the Knesset as aforesaid but the Knesset did not express confidence in him by that date — the Government shall be deemed to have resigned and the provisions of section 30 shall apply.
(e)If the Prime Minister in a rotation Government ceases to serve in his office for any reason after the date of rotation, the Alternate Prime Minister shall serve in his stead in the office.
(f)
(1)If the Alternate Prime Minister in a rotation Government ceases to serve in his office prior to the date of rotation, his faction may elect a member of the Knesset from that faction, who shall request from the Knesset a vote of confidence to serve in place of the Alternate Prime Minister whose tenure ceased as aforesaid; upon the Knesset expressing confidence in that member of the Knesset, or as soon as practicable thereafter, that member of the Knesset shall make before the Knesset a declaration of allegiance as referred to in section 13a(f), and shall be deemed to be the Alternate Prime Minister for all purposes;
(2)If the faction of the Alternate Prime Minister elected a member of the Knesset from that faction to serve in place of the Alternate Prime Minister as referred to in paragraph (1), but the Knesset did not express confidence in him by one week before the end of the period of tenure of the Prime Minister, the Government shall be deemed to have resigned and the provisions of section 30 shall apply.
Rotation between Prime Minister and Alternate Prime Minister due to dissolution of the Knesset before the end of its term of office§
43a1.
Without derogating from the provisions of sections 13a and 43a, rotation between the Prime Minister and the Alternate Prime Minister shall take place before the date of rotation, in accordance with the provisions of section 13a(g) and (h), also on each of the following dates as detailed below:
(1)the day after a law on the dissolution of the Knesset before the end of its term of office was passed in the Knesset on its third reading, pursuant to section 34 of Basic Law: The Knesset, provided that on the third reading at least two members of the Knesset who were members of factions whose Ministers were identified as having an affinity to the Prime Minister at the time of the swearing-in of the rotation Government voted in favour of that law; for this purpose, a member of the Knesset who was a member of the Knesset at the time of the swearing-in of the rotation Government and did not express confidence therein shall not be counted among the said members of the Knesset;
(2)on the determining date as defined in section 36a of Basic Law: The Knesset, if the budget law was not passed by the day preceding it.
Alternate Prime Minister — acting substitute for the Prime Minister§
43b.
The Alternate Prime Minister in a rotation Government shall be the acting substitute for the Prime Minister pursuant to section 5(d), and no other acting substitute for the Prime Minister shall be appointed.
Removal from office of the Alternate Prime Minister§
43c.
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 22(b), the Prime Minister in a rotation Government may not remove the Alternate Prime Minister from office.
Ministers in a rotation Government§
43d.
(a)Notwithstanding the provisions of section 22(b), the Prime Minister in a rotation Government may not remove from office a Minister having an affinity to the Alternate Prime Minister, without the consent of the Alternate Prime Minister.
(b)The Alternate Prime Minister in a rotation Government may, after having notified the Government of his intention to do so, remove from office a Minister having an affinity to him, and the provisions of section 22(b) shall apply in this regard, with the necessary modifications.
(c)An acting substitute of a Minister in a rotation Government pursuant to section 24(a) shall be a Minister having the same affinity as the Minister whose place he is filling.
(d)Notwithstanding the provisions of section 24(b), if a Minister in a rotation Government ceases to serve or is temporarily incapacitated from fulfilling his functions, the Prime Minister, the Alternate Prime Minister or another Minister as the Government shall determine upon the proposal of the Prime Minister or the Alternate Prime Minister shall fulfil the functions, all in accordance with the affinity of that Minister.
(e)The provisions of section 24(b) shall not apply to an Alternate Prime Minister who ceases to serve or is temporarily incapacitated from fulfilling his functions.
(f)Notwithstanding the provisions of section 15, a rotation Government may add an additional Minister to the Government upon the proposal of the Prime Minister or the Alternate Prime Minister, all subject to the provisions of section 13a(d); if the Government has decided to add a Minister as aforesaid, it shall notify the Knesset of this, of his functions or of the areas of activity within his responsibility and of his affinity to the Prime Minister or to the Alternate Prime Minister; upon approval of the notice by the Knesset the additional Minister shall enter into office, and as soon as practicable after the approval he shall make the declaration of allegiance.
(g)(Lapsed)
Deputy Ministers in a rotation Government§
43e.
(a)Notwithstanding the provisions of section 25(a), a Minister in a rotation Government who is in charge of a ministry may appoint to that ministry, from among the members of the Knesset, one Deputy Minister, and in the Prime Minister's Office — two Deputy Ministers, with the consent of the Prime Minister or the Alternate Prime Minister, in accordance with the affinity of the Minister in charge, and with the approval of the rotation Government; in the Government's notice to the Knesset of the appointment of the Deputy Minister, the Government shall notify the Knesset of the affinity of the Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister or to the Alternate Prime Minister.
(b)Notwithstanding the provisions of section 26(3) —
(1)the Prime Minister may terminate the tenure of a Deputy Minister having an affinity to him only, and the Alternate Prime Minister may terminate the tenure of a Deputy Minister having an affinity to him only;
(2)a Minister may not terminate the tenure of a Deputy Minister whom he appointed if the affinity of the Deputy Minister differs from the affinity of the Minister.
Authority of the Prime Minister to dissolve the Knesset in a rotation Government§
43f.
The authority of the Prime Minister in a rotation Government to dissolve the Knesset by Order pursuant to section 29(a) requires the consent of the Alternate Prime Minister.
Status of the Alternate Prime Minister§
43g.
(a)The Alternate Prime Minister in a rotation Government shall have the same status as the Prime Minister pursuant to sections 17, 18, 23(c) and 31(a).
(b)Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), if the Alternate Prime Minister in a rotation Government ceases to serve in his office pursuant to section 18(d) — the Government shall not be deemed to have resigned.
43g1.§
(Repealed — תש״ף)
Vote of no confidence in a rotation Government§
43h.
If the Knesset has decided to express no confidence in a rotation Government and to express confidence in another Government, pursuant to section 28, neither the Prime Minister nor the Alternate Prime Minister of the rotation Government in which no confidence was expressed shall be entitled to head the other Government.
Entrenchment of the law§
44.
(a)This Basic Law may not be amended except by a majority of the members of the Knesset; the majority required under this subsection shall be required for decisions of the Knesset plenary at the first reading, the second reading and the third reading; for the purposes of this section, "amendment" — whether express or implied.
(b)The provisions of this section shall not apply to sections 45 and 46.
Amendment of Basic Law: The Knesset — No. 30§
45.
In Basic Law: The Knesset —
(1)after section 21 the following shall be inserted:
"Knesset oversight of subordinate legislation
21a. (a) Regulations made by a Minister that prescribe criminal punishment for their breach shall not enter into force unless approved, before their publication, by a committee of the Knesset committees within whose area of responsibility the matter falls; if the committee has not decided on the approval or rejection of the Regulations within 45 days from the date on which the Regulations were submitted to it, the Regulations shall be deemed to have been approved.
(b)Nothing in the provisions of this section shall derogate from the provisions of a Basic Law or of any other law concerning Regulations.";
(2)in section 35, at the end thereof the following shall be added: "which shall not be later than five months from the date of the passage of the law";
(3)after section 36 the following shall be inserted:
"Dissolution due to non-passage of budget law
36a. (a) If the budget law has not been passed within three months from the commencement of the fiscal year, the day following the end of that period (hereinafter — the determining date) shall be deemed as if the Knesset had decided on its dissolution before the end of its term of office, and early elections shall be held on the last Tuesday before the expiry of 90 days from the determining date, unless the Knesset has decided by a majority of its members, within five days from the determining date, owing to the proximity of the date of the elections to a festival, occasion or day of remembrance, to hold the elections at a later date, but no later than 100 days from the determining date.
(b)Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), if the President of the State commenced proceedings for the formation of a new Government pursuant to section 30 of Basic Law: The Government, or a law on the dissolution of the Knesset was passed, or elections to the Knesset were held, after the date for submitting the budget proposal pursuant to section 3 of Basic Law: State Economy, and before the expiry of the three months from the commencement of the fiscal year, the determining date as referred to in subsection (a) shall be three months from the commencement of the fiscal year or 45 days from the date of the formation of the Government, whichever is later."
Repeal of Basic Law: The Government§
46.
Basic Law: The Government — is repealed.
Commencement and application§
47.
(a)The provisions of this Basic Law shall apply to elections and to the formation of the Government, commencing with the elections to the Sixteenth Knesset.
(b)Subject to the provisions of subsection (a), this Basic Law shall commence on the day on which the Government referred to in subsection (a) is formed.
(c)Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b), section 44 shall commence on the day of the publication of this law.
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