Basic Law: The Knesset (Amendment 10)(1987)

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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. 10) *

Amendment of section 6. 1. Section 6 of the Basic Law: The Knesset⁽¹⁾ shall be indicated (a) and shall be followed by the following section:

(b) "Should an Israeli citizen also be a citizen of another country, and the laws of that country allow him to waive such citizenship, he shall not be a candidate for the Knesset, unless having done, until the submission of the list of candidates to the Knesset including his name, and to the satisfaction of the Chairman of the Central Knesset Elections Committee, all that is required of him in order to waive such citizenship; for the purposes of this section, a person shall be deemed to be a resident of another state only if he held, at some stage, the passport or another certificate of that State, attesting to his being a citizen of that State.

Commencement. 2. Section 2 shall come into force from the elections to the twelfth Knesset and onwards.

CHAIM HERZOG
President of the State

YITZCHAK SHAMIR
Prime Minister

* Passed by the Knesset on the 20 Iyar 5747 (19 May 1987); and published in Sefer Ha-Chukkim No. 1215 of 28th 5747 (27th May 1987), p. 128; the Bill and an explanatory note were published in Hatza'ot Chok 1748 5745, p. 268.

⁽¹⁾ Sefer Ha-Chukkim 5718, p. 69; L.S.I. Vol 12, p. 85.

⁽²⁾ Sefer Ha-Chukkim 5745, p. 196; L.S.I. Vol 39, p. 216.

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SOURCE: "Laws of the State of Israel: Authorized Translation from the Hebrew". Volume 41. Government Printer, Jerusalem, Israel (1948-1989), p. 129.

(C) Israel Law Resource Center, December, 2007.

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