Basic Law: The Knesset
Barring participation
- Jurisdiction
- Israel
- Provision
- 7a
- Source language
- English
- Recorded status
- in force
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- Recorded status
- in force
Provision text
Official source(a) A list of candidates shall not participate in elections to in elections the Knesset, and a person shall not be a candidate in (Amendments Nos. 9, elections to the Knesset, should there be explicitly or 35, 39 & 46) implicitly in the goals or actions of the list, or the actions of the person, including his expressions, as applicable, one of the following: (1) Negation of the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state; (2) Incitement to racism; (3) Support for an armed struggle by an enemy state, or of a terrorist organization, against the State of Israel. (a1) For the purpose of this article a candidate, who sojourned illegally in an enemy state in the seven years that preceded the deadline for submitting lists of candidates, shall be considered someone, whose actions constitute support for an armed conflict against the State of Israel, as long as he has not proven otherwise. (b) A decision by the Central Elections Committee to the effect that a candidate is barred from participating in elections, must be approved by the Supreme Court. (c) A candidate shall make a declaration concerning this article. (d) Details regarding the deliberation in the Central Elections Committee, and the Supreme Court, and on the matter of the declaration in accordance with clause (c), shall be prescribed by law.
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Basic Law: The Knesset · main.knesset.gov.il · Retrieved 18 August 2026.
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