The right to be elected

(a) Every Israeli citizen, who on the day of the submission (Amendments Nos. 8, of a list of candidates, which includes his name, is 10, 22, 26 and 47) twenty one years old and above, is entitled to be elected to the Knesset, unless a court of law has deprived him of this right by virtue of the law, or who has been sentenced, in a final verdict, to actual imprisonment for a period of over three months, and on the day of the submission of the list of candidates seven years have not lapsed from the day on which he finished serving the actual imprisonment, and if he was convicted of a serious terror offence, or a serious security offence, as prescribed by law, was sentenced, in a final verdict, to an actual prison sentence for a period of over seven years imprisonment, and on the day of the submission of the list of candidate 14 years have not lapsed from the day that he finished serving the actual imprisonment, unless the Chairperson of the Central Elections Committee determined that the offence for which he was sentenced, in the circumstances of the case, did not involve turpitude. (b) [Repealed] (c) A candidate to the Knesset, who has been sentenced as stated in clause (a), and whose verdict became final after the submission of the list of candidates, and before he started serving as a Member of the Knesset, shall be treated as someone, who has resigned from the list of candidates in which his name was included, or from his membership in the Knesset, as applicable, unless the Chairperson of the Central Elections Committee has determined that the offence for which he was convicted, under the circumstances of the case, does not involve moral turpitude. (d) A decision by the Chairperson of the Central Elections Committee in accordance with clauses (a) and (c) shall not be required if the court has ruled, under the law, that under the circumstances of the case, the offence involves moral turpitude. (e) For the purpose of this article – "Actual imprisonment" – the total periods of actual imprisonment, which the convicted person must serve consecutively, even if these were imposed in different sentences, including a suspended sentence that has been activated; "Offense" – any one of the offences for which he has been sentenced to actual imprisonment.