Removal of the

(a) The Knesset is entitled, by means of a resolution, to President from office remove the President of the State from office, should it decide that he is unworthy of his office due to conduct that is inappropriate for his status as President of the State. (b) The Knesset shall not remove the President of the State from office, save after a complaint was brought to the House Committee by at least twenty Members of the Knesset, and on the basis of a decision of the House Committee adopted by a majority of three quarters of the members of the Committee. The decision of the Knesset to remove the President from his office requires a majority of three quarters of its Members as well. (c) The House Committee shall not propose the removal of the President of the State from his office, unless he has been given the opportunity to refute the complaint on the basis of the procedure laid down by the Committee with the approval of the Knesset, and the Knesset shall not decide to remove the President of the State from his office save after he has been given the opportunity to have his say on the basis of the procedure laid down by the House Committee with the approval of the Knesset. (d) The President of the State is entitled to be represented before the House Committee and before the Knesset by his council, as long as a Member of the Knesset shall not serve as council of the President. The House Committee and the Knesset are entitled to invite the President of the State to be present during the deliberations on the basis of this article. (e) The Knesset deliberations on the basis of this article shall be held in a sitting designated to this matter alone, or in successive sittings designated as stated. The debate shall begin no later than twenty days after the decision of the House Committee. The Speaker of the Knesset shall inform all the Knesset Members in writing of the time of its beginning, at least ten days in advance. Should the beginning of the debate not occur during one of the Knesset sessions, the Speaker of the Knesset shall convene the Knesset in order to hold the debate.