Basic Law: The Knesset (Amendment 9)(1985)

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THIS LAW: Basic Law: The Knesset (passed by the Knesset February 12, 1958).
ITS AMENDMENTS: (7.22.59) (7.29.59) (8.6.59) (3.14.67) (7.17.74) (7.16.80) (4.1.81) (4.1.81) (7.31.85) (5.19.87) (3.7.2001-section 45)

BASIC LAW: THE KNESSET (AMENDMENT NO. 9) (1985)*

Amendment of
section 7A.

1. In the Basic Law: The Knesset⁽¹⁾, the following section shall be inserted after section 7:

Prevention of
participation of
candidate's list.

"7A. A candidates' list shall not participate in elections to the Knesset if its objects or actions, expressly or by implication, include one of the following:

(1) negation of the existence of the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people;
(2) negation of the democratic character of the State;
(3) incitement to racism.".

Amendment of
Knesset Elections
Law.

2. In the Knesset Elections Law (Consolidated Version), 5729-1969⁽²⁾ -

(1) in section 63, the words "A candidates' list duly submitted" shall be replaced by the words "A candidates' list not prevented by section 7A of the Basic Law: the Knesset from participating in elections to the Knesset and duly submitted";

(2) in section 64 -

(a) the marginal note shall be amended to read "Appeal";

(b) the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (a);

"(a)

1) Where the Central Committee has approved a candidates' list, the Attorney-General or the Chairman of the Central Committee or at least one quarter of the members of the Election Committee may, not later than the 18th day before election day, appeal to the Supreme Court on the ground that the list is prevented by section 7A of the Basic Law: the Knesset from participating in elections to the Knesset.";

(3) in section 65, the words "or by the Supreme Court" shall be replaced by the words "or as decided by the Supreme Court".

	SHIMON PERES Prime Minister
CHAIM HERZOG President of the State

* Passed by the Knesset on the 13th Av, 5745 (31st July, 1985) and published in Sefer Ha-Chukkim No. 1155 of the 20th Av, 5745 (7th August, 1985), p. 196; the Bill and an Explanatory Note were published in Hatza'ot Chok No. 1728 of 5745, p. 193.

⁽¹⁾ Sefer Ha-Chukkim of 5718, p. 69 - LSI vol. XII p. 85; Sefer Ha-Chukkim of 5741, p. 168 - LSI vol. XXXV, p. 192.

⁽²⁾ Sefer Ha-Chukkim of 5729, p. 103 - LSI vol. XXIII, p. 110; Sefer Ha-Chukkim of 5743, p. 106 - LSI vol. XXXVII, p. 125.

THIS LAW: Basic Law: The Knesset (passed by the Knesset March 14, 1950).
ITS AMENDMENTS: (7.22.59) (7.29.59) (8.6.59) (3.14.67) (7.17.74) (7.16.80) (4.1.81) (4.1.81) (7.31.85) (5.19.87) (3.7.2001-section 45)

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