Authority to dissolve

(a) Should the Prime Minister realize that there is a the Knesset majority in the Knesset, which opposes the (Amendment No. 1) Government, and that as a result the effective activity of the Government is prevented, he is entitled, with the consent of the President of the State, to dissolve the Knesset by means of an order to be published in the Official Gazette. The order shall enter into force 21 days after its publication, unless a request has been submitted, on the basis of clause (b), and the Government is deemed to have resigned on the day that the order was published. (b) Within 21 days of the publication of the order, the majority of the Knesset Members are entitled to request the President of the State in writing to assign the formation of a government to a certain Member of the Knesset, who agreed to it in writing, and who is not the Prime Minister. (c) Should a request be submitted to the President of the State as aforesaid in clause (b), the President shall notify the Speaker of the Knesset thereof. Within two days the President shall assign the task of forming a Government to the Member of the Knesset named in the request. (d) The Member of the Knesset to whom the task of forming a government on the basis of this article was assigned by the President of the State, has 28 days to perform his task. The President is entitled to prolong this period by additional periods, as long as they shall not together exceed 14 days. (e) Should no request have been submitted as stated in clause (b), or should the period mentioned in clause (d) have elapsed, and the Member of the Knesset has not informed the President that he has formed a government, or should he have informed him beforehand that he is unable to form a government, the President of the State shall notify the Speaker of the Knesset thereof. (f) Should the President of the State give notice as stated in clause (e), or should the Member of the Knesset to whom the task of forming a Government on the basis of this article was assigned have presented a government, and the Knesset rejected the request to express confidence in it on the basis of article 13(d), the Knesset shall be deemed to have decided to dissolve itself before the end of its term, and elections to the Knesset shall be held on the last Tuesday before the end of the 90 days from the day on which the order came into force, or from the day on which the period for forming the Government ended, or from the day of the notification of the President, or from the day on which the request to express confidence in the Government was rejected, as the case may be. (g) The Prime Minister shall not be entitled to use his authority on the basis of this article - (1) from the beginning of the term of a new Knesset, until the formation of the new Government; (2) [Repealed] (3) after the resignation of the Prime Minister, or from the day on which a verdict was given in which it was determined that he was responsible for an offence that involves moral turpitude, until the day on which the Knesset adopted a resolution on the basis of article 18(a). (h) A minister who is substituting for the Prime Minister shall not be entitled to exercise the authority granted the Prime Minister on the basis of this article.