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Knesset Law, 5754-1994

חוק הכנסת, תשנ"ד-1994

Published: 1994-05-04Consolidated Hebrew text as of 2025-04-01 · Last amended 2025-12-17✓ Amendment status checked against the Knesset legislation record on 2026-09-28
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Chapter VIII: Future Generations Commissioner of the Knesset

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Chapter IX: Remuneration of Members of the Knesset

Purpose of the Chapter§

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This Chapter comes to establish a public committee and to vest in it powers to determine remuneration and other payments to members of the Knesset only, having regard to the special characteristics of their functions.

Definitions§

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In this Chapter —

"the public committee" means the committee appointed pursuant to the provisions of section 52;

"member of the Knesset" includes a person whose membership in the Knesset has been suspended pursuant to section 42b of Basic Law: The Knesset;

"remuneration" means monthly basic salary, including cost-of-living allowance and price-increase compensation;

"other payments" means grants, benefits, services and other payments, as detailed in section 55(a)(2), paid or given to a member of the Knesset during his term of office.

Salary and other payments§

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(a)A member of the Knesset shall be paid a salary and other payments in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter; a member of the Knesset is obliged to receive his salary, provided that a member of the Knesset may, in a particular year, waive receipt of that portion of the salary arising from the salary update in that year.
(b)Where a member of the Knesset has notified the Accountant of the Knesset of a waiver as referred to in subsection (a), that portion of the salary referred to shall not be paid to him for that year from the date of the salary payment following delivery of the notice, and the waiver shall apply for all purposes and matters.
(c)A member of the Knesset who has given notice as referred to in subsection (b) shall not be entitled to alter his notice in that year.

The Public Committee§

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(a)The Knesset, upon the proposal of the Knesset Committee, shall appoint a public committee whose function is to recommend remuneration and other payments for members of the Knesset, and shall appoint the chairperson of the public committee from among the members of the committee.
(b)Three public representatives shall serve on the public committee, at least one of whom, at the time of his appointment, is a member of the academic staff of an institution of higher education that has been recognised or that has received a permit under the Council for Higher Education Law, 5718-1958.
(c)The following shall not be appointed to, nor serve on, the public committee —
(1)a person whose remuneration, other payments paid to him or pension will be affected by the decisions of the public committee;
(2)a person who is a member of the active management of a party.
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(e)The Speaker of the Knesset shall publish in Reshumot (Official Gazette) a notice of the appointment of the public committee, its composition, and any change therein.
(f)The term of office of the public committee shall be five years from the day of its appointment.
(g)A member of the public committee who has served two consecutive full terms of office therein shall not be appointed for an additional consecutive term of office.
(h)If a member of the public committee ceases to serve, is permanently incapacitated from performing his functions, or has been convicted by a final judgment of a criminal offence, except for an offence listed in section 7(a)(2), the Knesset shall appoint, pursuant to the provisions of this section, another member for the remainder of the committee's term of office.

Remuneration of Members§

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The Knesset Committee shall determine provisions regarding the payment of remuneration to members of the public committee, as well as to advisers and administrative employees who shall be employed by the public committee with the approval of the Knesset Committee, and who do not receive a salary from the State Treasury or from a public fund within the meaning of section 35 of the State Service (Pensions) Law [Consolidated Version], 5730-1970.

Procedure of the Public Committee§

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The Public Committee, with the approval of the House Committee, shall determine its working procedures and deliberation rules, insofar as they have not been determined in this Chapter, and they shall be published in Reshumot (Official Gazette).

Recommendations of the Public Committee§

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(1)The Public Committee shall submit to the House Committee its recommendations regarding the salary and other payments to members of the Knesset, and may recommend methods of their linkage and updating; the recommendations shall be laid on the table of the Knesset;
(2)Within the scope of its authority under paragraph (1), the Public Committee may recommend that other payments be made to members of the Knesset, as detailed below, having regard to their role, their place of residence, or any other factor determined by the Public Committee:
(a)funding of expenses related to parliamentary activity, including by means of manpower, communication services, travel expense reimbursement, vehicle maintenance, subsistence, accommodation and special expenses involved in the performance of their duties, according to the nature of the role;
(b)payments to a further education fund and to a provident fund.
(b)Recommendations of the Public Committee that have been laid on the table of the Knesset shall be brought for deliberation before the House Committee within 30 days from the date of their being laid; days of the Knesset recess shall not be counted within the said period.
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(1)If the House Committee has adopted the recommendations of the Public Committee, the recommendations shall acquire the status of a decision;
(2)If the House Committee has rejected the recommendations of the Public Committee, the recommendations shall be returned to the Public Committee for renewed deliberation and for the submission of additional recommendations to the House Committee.
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(1)The provisions of subsections (a) and (b) shall apply to the additional recommendations of the Public Committee, and the House Committee may, after deliberating on the additional recommendations, resolve as provided in subsection (c) or make any other decision regarding the salary and other payments to be made to members of the Knesset;
(2)The House Committee may resolve as provided in subsection (c)(2) with respect to each of the additional recommendations of the Public Committee, and may return them again to the Public Committee for the purpose of receiving further additional recommendations, as it sees fit.
(d1)Where the Public Committee has been requested by the House Committee to submit a recommendation pursuant to this Chapter, it shall submit its recommendation as provided in subsection (a)(1) within 25 working days from the date of the request, and an additional recommendation as provided in subsection (c)(2) — within 15 working days from the date on which the recommendations were returned; if the Public Committee has not submitted a recommendation by any of the said dates, the House Committee may determine that the request shall acquire the status of a decision.
(e)Recommendations and determinations that have acquired the status of a decision pursuant to this Section shall be published in Reshumot (Official Gazette).

Restriction on Application§

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The provisions of this Chapter shall not apply to the Prime Minister, a Minister or a Deputy Minister; however, the House Committee may decide, pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter, on other payments to be made to the said office holders to cover their special expenses involved in the performance of their duties as members of the Knesset or their public role; decisions regarding payments to a Minister or a Deputy Minister who is a member of the Knesset, determined pursuant to this Chapter, shall also apply to a Minister or a Deputy Minister whose membership of the Knesset has been suspended pursuant to the provisions of section 42c of Basic Law: The Knesset.

Repeal of the Members of the Knesset Salary Law§

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The Members of the Knesset Salary Law, 5709-1949 — is hereby repealed.

Savings§

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A decision regarding the salary and other payments to members of the Knesset, adopted pursuant to the Members of the Knesset Salary Law, 5709-1949, shall remain in force insofar as it does not contradict a decision that has entered into force pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter, or until it has been amended by such a decision.

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Chapter X: Factions

Split§

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A split of a faction is recognised for the purposes of section 6a of Basic Law: The Knesset if one of the following conditions is met:

(1)the split is of a group of at least two members of the Knesset who constitute at least one-third of the number of members of the faction;
(2)the split is of a faction that is a combination of parties, and the split follows the affiliation to those parties, and the faction submitted to the Chairman of the Central Elections Committee, at the time of the submission of its list of candidates, a draft agreement regarding the combination of parties as aforesaid;
(3)the split takes place at the time the faction merges with another faction, provided that the members of each faction who oppose the merger do so as one faction, but any member of the Knesset who opposes the merger may join another faction.

Approval of the House Committee§

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(a)Where written notice has been delivered to the House Committee on behalf of a faction or part thereof of a split as provided in section 59(1) or (2), or of a merger of factions within a new factional framework, the House Committee shall approve the change.
(b)Where written notice has been delivered to the House Committee on behalf of factions of their merger within a new factional framework, and written notice on behalf of members of the factions seeking to split pursuant to section 59(3) has been submitted to the Committee before it approved the merger as provided in subsection (a), the House Committee shall approve the split together with the merger.

Resignation from a Faction§

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(a)Where a member of the Knesset has resigned from his faction otherwise than within the framework of a split, the House Committee shall, at a session held shortly after the resignation and after affording the member of the Knesset an opportunity to present his arguments, determine the fact of his resignation and also the change in the number of members of that faction.
(b)The House Committee shall not determine that a member of the Knesset has resigned from his faction unless it has examined the facts relating to his resignation and found that the criteria set out in section 6a of Basic Law: The Knesset have been met.
(c)Against a decision of the House Committee pursuant to this Section, the member of the Knesset whose resignation was considered by the Committee, or his faction, may lodge an appeal to the Supreme Court; the appeal shall be lodged within 14 days from the date of the decision, and the judgment shall be delivered as soon as possible and no later than thirty days from the date of the lodging of the appeal.
(d)A member of the Knesset in respect of whom the House Committee has given notice of his resignation shall not be joined to any faction during the term of office of that Knesset.

Number of Members of the Faction§

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(a)Where a faction has split or merged, the number of members of the new factions shall be regarded as determined according to the new factional composition, after it has been approved by the House Committee.
(b)Where a member of the Knesset has resigned from a faction otherwise than within the framework of a split, the number of its members shall be regarded as if he had not resigned from it.

Determination of the faction membership of a member of the Knesset who commenced serving after a faction split§

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(a)Where a member of the Knesset has commenced serving in the Knesset after the faction in which the members of the candidates list that included his name were members split pursuant to the provisions of section 59(1) or (3) — even if it had split previously or subsequently also pursuant to the provisions of section 59(2) — the member of the Knesset shall give the Speaker of the Knesset a single notice, in writing, within 24 hours of becoming a member of the Knesset, regarding the faction to which he requests to belong, provided that among its members there is a person who was included in the said candidates list; if no such notice is given, the member of the Knesset shall be deemed to belong to the faction in which the majority of the members who were included in the candidates list that included his name are members, and if there are several factions having an equal number of members who were included in the candidates list, he shall be deemed to belong to the faction to which the member of the Knesset who headed the candidates list belongs, and if that person has ceased to serve or to be counted among that faction — the next person on that candidates list.
(b)Where a member of the Knesset has commenced serving in the Knesset after the faction in which the members of the candidates list that included his name were members split pursuant to the provisions of section 59(2), he shall be deemed to belong to the faction representing the party to which his affiliation was indicated in the joint candidates list as referred to in section 57(b) of the Knesset Elections Law [Consolidated Version], 5729-1969, provided however that he may notify the Speaker of the Knesset, in writing, within 24 hours of becoming a member of the Knesset, that he requests to belong to another faction whose members were included in the candidates list that included his name, provided that both the faction to which he was to have belonged and the faction to which he requests to belong have delivered to the Speaker of the Knesset, in writing, their consent to his request within the said period of time.
(c)The provisions of subsections (a) and (b) shall apply also to a person whose membership in the Knesset was renewed pursuant to the provisions of section 42c(c) of Basic Law: The Knesset, and to a person who has resumed fulfilling his position after his suspension pursuant to the provisions of section 42b of Basic Law: The Knesset has ended, and during the period in which his membership in the Knesset was terminated or suspended, his faction split.
(d)With respect to the time for delivery of a notice, notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) and (b), a notice regarding the faction membership of a person who is to replace, pursuant to section 43 of Basic Law: The Knesset, the member of the Knesset serving as a Minister or Deputy Minister and who has given notice of the termination of his membership in the Knesset pursuant to section 42c(a) of the Basic Law, shall be delivered within 24 hours of the date on which the member of the Knesset serving as a Minister or Deputy Minister gave notice of the termination of his membership in the Knesset as aforesaid.

Representation of the Faction§

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In a faction whose members are divided on the question of who represents the faction, the members of the Knesset constituting a majority of the members of the faction shall be regarded as representing the faction; however, if the members of the faction are divided into equal parts, that part of the faction with which the member of the Knesset who headed the list of candidates to the Knesset is affiliated shall be regarded as representing the faction in the Knesset, and if he has ceased to serve as a member of the Knesset — the next person on that list of candidates.

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