Basic Law: The Knesset
Reservation to the
- Jurisdiction
- Israel
- Provision
- 6a
- Source language
- English
- Recorded status
- in force
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- Recorded status
- in force
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Official source(a) A Member of the Knesset, who withdrew from his candidacy of a parliamentary group and did not resign from his Member of the position soon after withdrawing, shall not be included Knesset, who in the following elections to the Knesset, in a list of withdrew from his candidates submitted by a party, which was parliamentary group represented by a parliamentary group in the outgoing (Amendments Nos. 12, 21 & 36) Knesset. This provision shall not apply to the splitting of a parliamentary group under conditions prescribed by law. (b) For the purpose of this article – “Withdrawal from a parliamentary group” - including voting in the Plenum not in accordance to the position of the Parliamentary Group with regards to expressing confidence in the Government, or no-confidence in it. However, such a vote shall not be considered as a withdrawal if the Member of the Knesset has not received any return for his vote; “Return” – direct or indirect, as a promise or commitment for the future, including a promise for a place in a list of candidates for the Knesset, or the appointment of the Knesset Member himself, or another person, to some position.
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Basic Law: The Knesset · main.knesset.gov.il · Retrieved 18 August 2026.
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