Functioning of the

(a) The Government is entitled, with the approval of the Government Knesset, to change the distribution of functions among (Amendment No. 11) the Ministers, except for the function of the Prime Minister. (b) The Government is entitled, with the approval of the Knesset, to transfer a power bestowed by law upon one minister to another minister, or a duty assigned to him by law, either completely or partially, to another minister. (c) The Government is entitled, with the approval of the Knesset, to unite ministries, divide them, abolish them, or establish new ministries. (c1) The Government is entitled, with the approval of the Knesset, to decide that a minister shall serve as an additional minister in a ministry, and lay down specific spheres from among the Ministry’s spheres of activity, for which that minister will be responsible, subject to the Minister appointed to the Ministry, in accordance with the provisions of article 24a. (c2) The Government is entitled, in a ministry in which an additional minister serves, to transfer spheres of activity between him and the appointed Minister. (d) The Government is entitled, with the approval of the Knesset, to transfer spheres of activity from one ministry to another. (e) The Government is entitled to appoint permanent or temporary ministerial committees, or ministerial committees for particular matters. Once a committee has been appointed, the Government may operate by its means. (f) The Government shall lay down procedures for its sittings and work, its manner of deliberations, and the way its resolutions shall be adopted, whether regularly or on a certain matter.