Issuing Emergency

(a) In a state of emergency, the Government is entitled to Regulations. issue Emergency Regulations in order to defend the State, public security, and the maintenance of supplies and vital services. Emergency Regulations shall be laid on the table of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, as soon as possible after they have been issued. (b) Should the Prime Minister deem it impossible to convene the Government, and that there is an urgent and vital need to issue Emergency Regulations, he is entitled to issue them, or authorize a minister to issue them. (c) Emergency Regulations have the power to change any law, and temporarily suspend it, or set conditions to it, as well as to impose or increase taxes or other compulsory payments, and all as long as there is no other provision in the law. (d) Emergency Regulations do not have the force to prevent recourse to the courts, prescribe punishment in advance, or permit an infringement of human dignity. (e) Emergency Regulations shall not be prescribed. and arrangements, measures and powers shall not be implemented under them, unless the state of emergency warrants this. (f) The force of Emergency Regulations shall expire three months after being issued, unless their force has been extended by law, or they have been revoked by the Knesset by means of a law, or by means of a resolution adopted by a majority of the Knesset Members. (g) Emergency Regulations shall go into force upon their being published in the Official Gazette. Should publication in the Official Gazette not be possible, they shall be published by other suitable means, provided they are published in the Official Gazette as soon as it will be possible to do so. (h) Should the state of emergency cease to exist, the Emergency Regulations shall remain in force for their prescribed duration, but no longer than 60 days after the state of emergency came to an end. Emergency Regulations the force of which was prolonged by law, shall remain in force.