Formation of the

(a) Once the President of the State has assigned the task of Government forming a government to a Member of the Knesset, he (Amendment No. 11) shall inform the Speaker of the Knesset, and the Speaker of the Knesset shall notify the Knesset thereof. (b) Once the Member of the Knesset has formed a government, he shall inform the President of the State and the Speaker of the Knesset thereof, and the Speaker of the Knesset shall notify the Knesset thereof, and set a sitting for the purpose of forming the Government, within seven days from the day of the notification of the Knesset on the basis of this clause. (c) The Member of the Knesset who formed a government shall head it. (d) Once the Government has been formed, it shall present itself before the Knesset, announce the guidelines of its policy, its make-up, and the distribution of functions, or spheres of activity among the Ministers, and shall request an expression of confidence. The Government shall be formed once the Knesset has expressed confidence in it, and from that moment the Ministers shall assume office. Formation of rotation 13a (a) In this basic law – government (Amendment No. 8 “Date of the rotation” – the stipulated date on which and temporary the rotation shall take place between the Prime provision) Minister and the Alternate Prime Minister; “Rotation government” – a government that during its period of office the Member of the Knesset, who formed the Government, and an additional Member of the Knesset shall alternately stand at its head; “Alternate Prime Minister” – the Member of the Knesset designated to serve as Prime Minister in a rotation government, and the Member of the Knesset who served as Prime Minister in that Rotation Government before the rotation. (b) Despite what is said in article 13(c), the Government formed can be a rotation government on the basis of the provisions of this Basic Law. (c) In a rotation government, every minister and deputy minister shall be identified as being affiliated with the Prime Minister or with the Alternate Prime Minister. (d) (1) The number of ministers identified as having an affiliation with the Prime Minister shall be equal to the number of ministers identified as having an affiliation with the alternate Prime Minister. However, should the number of ministers be unequal, as stated, the Government shall lay down an apparatus for voting according to which the voting power of the total number of ministers having an affiliation with the Prime Minister in the Government shall be equal to the voting power of the total number of ministers having an affiliation with the Alternate Prime Minister, or rules with regards to the manner in which decisions are taken, that will promise the stated ratio. (Amendment No. 10) (2) The provisions of paragraph (1) shall also apply to ministerial committees, save ministerial committees in which the identity of their members was prescribed by law, if the said law does not enable the Government to appoint additional members to them. (e) Without detracting from the provisions of article 13(d) once a rotation government has been formed, it shall present itself before the Knesset, shall announce the following details, and shall request an expression of confidence: (1) The identity of the Prime Minister and the identity of the Alternate Prime Minister; (2) The date of the rotation; (3) The identity of the Ministers affiliated with the Prime Minister, and the identity of the Ministers affiliated with the Alternate Prime Minister. The Rotation Government shall be established once the Knesset has expressed confidence in it, and from that moment the Minister shall enter their offices. (f) Once the Knesset has expressed confidence in the Rotation Government, or as close as possible thereafter – (1) The Prime Minister shall make the following declaration of allegiance to the Knesset, with regards to his period of office as Prime Minister before the date of the rotation, and with regards to the period of his office as Alternate Prime Minister after the date of the rotation: "I (the name) hereby undertake as Prime Minister and as the Alternate Prime Minister in future, to remain faithful to the State of Israel and its laws, and faithfully perform my office as Prime Minister, and as Alternate Prime Minister, and abide by the resolutions of the Knesset". (2) The Alternate Prime Minister shall declare before the Knesset the following declaration of allegiance, with regards to his period of office as Alternate Prime Minister before the date of the rotation, and with regards to the period of his office as Prime Minister after the date of the rotation: "I (the name) hereby undertake as Alternate Prime Minister and as Prime Minister in future, to remain faithful to the State of Israel and its laws, and faithfully perform my office as Prime Minister, and as Alternate Prime Minister, and abide by the resolutions of the Knesset". (g) Without detracting from the provisions of article 13(d), should the Knesset express confidence in the Rotation Government, when the date of the rotation arrives, the rotation shall be carried out in the following manner: (1) The service of the Prime Minister shall end, and the Alternate Prime Minister shall commence his service as Prime Minister; (2) On this date, and simultaneously, he whose office as Prime Minister came to an end, shall begin his service as Alternate Prime Minister. (h) The carrying out of the rotation as stated in clause (g), does not require an additional expression of confidence by the Knesset, and an additional declaration of allegiance by the Prime Minister and the Alternate Prime Minister, and the rotation shall not be viewed as a resignation of the Government, as a resignation of the Prime Minister, and as a resignation of the Alternate Prime Minister, or as the formation of a new government.