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Basic Law: The Government

Changing the election

Jurisdiction
Israel
Provision
43
Source language
English
Recorded status
in force
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in force

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Should the date of elections to the Knesset be set on the basis date (Amendment No. of articles 11and 29, the Knesset is entitled, within five days 1) after the grounds for the holding of the elections were created, to decide by means of a resolution adopted by a majority of its Members, that due to the proximity of the elections to a holiday, festival or day of commemoration, the elections should be deferred to a date that it shall decide upon, which is no later than 100 days from the date on which the grounds were created. Rotation between the 43a (a) Should the Prime Minister in a rotation government Prime Minister and the cease serving in his position at any time before the Alternate Prime date of the rotation, this will be considered as if the Minister not on the Government resigned, and the continuity provisions in date of the rotation article 30(b) shall apply to the service of the (Amendment No. 8 and temporary Government and of the Prime Minister. However, in provision) each of the following cases the Government shall not be seen as having resigned, and the rest of the provisions of this article shall apply: (1) The service of the Prime Minister ended in accordance with article 18(d); (2) The Prime Minister chose, of his own initiative, to resign from the Government, in accordance with article 19; (3) The Prime Minister passed away, as stated in article 2(a); (4) The Prime Minister is unable to perform his duties on a permanent basis, for health reasons only, and 100 days have lapsed, in which a substitute is serving in his place, in accordance with article 20(a); (5) The Prime Minister chose, of his own initiative to resign from the Knesset, in accordance of article 21(a). (b) Should the Prime Minister in a rotation government cease serving in his position for one of the reasons listed in the final section of clause (a), in the period until the date of the rotation, the provisions of clauses (c) and (d) shall apply. (c) The Alternate Prime Minister shall serve in his place as Prime Minister for the period of time that the Alternate Prime Minister should have served as Prime Minister, from the date of the rotation and until the end of the term of the Knesset. Should the term of office of the Alternate Prime Minister as Prime Minister end as stated, the provisions of clause (d) shall apply. (d) (1) Should the Prime Minister cease to serve in his position in accordance with clause (a)(4), and the state of his health shall enable his return to office – he shall return to serve in the position of the Prime Minister. (2) Should the Prime Minister cease to serve in his position in accordance with clause (a)(1), (2), (3) or (5), or should he cease to serve in his position in accordance with clause (a)4, and the state of his health does not enable his return to office – his Parliamentary Group is entitled to select a Member of the Knesset from the same Parliamentary Group, and he shall request the Knesset to express confidence in his serving in place of the Prime Minister, whose service ended as stated, and all until one week before the end of the service of the Alternate Prime Minister as Prime Minister. (3) Once the Knesset has expressed its confidence in the Member of the Knesset mentioned in paragraph (2), or as soon as possible thereafter, the Member of the Knesset shall declare before the Knesset a declaration of allegiance as stated in article 13a(f) or 14, as the case may be, and shall start serving as the Prime Minister upon the end of the term of office of whoever ceased serving as the Prime Minister. (4) Should the Parliamentary Group fail to select a Member of the Knesset from the same Parliamentary Group to replace the Prime Minister, who ceased to serve as stated in paragraph (2) until a week before the end of the period of service of the Prime Minister, or should the Parliamentary Group select a Member of the Knesset, as stated, but the Knesset failed to express confidence in him until that date – the Government shall be considered to have resigned, and the provisions of article 30 shall apply. (e) Should the Prime Minister in a rotation government cease to serve in his position for whatever reason, after the date of the rotation, the Alternate Prime Minister shall serve in his place and he shall request the Knesset to express confidence in his serving in place of the Prime Minister whose service ended as stated, and all until one week before the end of the service of the Alternate Prime Minister as Prime Minister. (f) (1) Should the Alternate Prime Minister in a rotation government cease to serve in his position until the date of the rotation, his Parliamentary Group is entitled to select a Member of the Knesset from the same Parliamentary Group, and he shall request the Knesset to express confidence in his serving in place of the Alternate Prime Minister, whose service ended as stated. Once the Knesset has expressed confidence in the said Member of the Knesset, or as soon as possible thereafter, that Member of the Knesset shall declare before the Knesset a declaration of allegiance, as stated in article 13a(f), and he shall be considered the Alternate Prime Minister, to all effects and purposes. (2) Should the Parliamentary Group of the Alternate Prime Minister select a Member of the Knesset from the same Parliamentary Group to serve instead of the Alternate Prime Minister as stated in paragraph (1), but the Knesset did not express confidence in him until a week before the end of the service of the Prime Minister, the Government shall be considered to have resigned, and the provisions of article 30 shall apply. Rotation between the 43a1 Without detracting from the provisions of articles 13a and Prime Minister and the 43a, rotation between the Prime Minister and the Alternate Alternate Prime Prime Minister shall take place before the date of the rotation Minister due to the in accordance to the provisions of article 13a(g) and (h), also dissolution of the in any one of the dates detailed below: Knesset before the end of its term (1) The day after the Knesset adopted in Third Reading a (Amendment No. 10) law for the dissolution of the Knesset before the end of its term in accordance with article 34 of Basic-Law: The Knesset, and as long as at least two Members of the Knesset who were members of parliamentary groups, whose Ministers were identified as having an affiliation with the Prime Minister on the date that the Rotation Government was formed, voted for it in Third Reading. In this case, a Member of the Knesset, who at the time of the swearing in of the Rotation Government did not express confidence in it, shall not be included in the counting of the said Members of the Knesset; (2) On the determining day according to its meaning in article 36a in Basic-Law: The Knesset, if the Budget Law was not adopted until the preceding day.

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Basic Law: The Government · main.knesset.gov.il · Retrieved 18 August 2026.

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