Eligibility of the

(a) A person who is not an Israeli citizen or a resident of Ministers Israel shall not be appointed as minister. (b) A person who serves in an office or position listed in article 7 of Basic-Law: The Knesset, shall not be appointed as minister, unless he has ceased to serve in that office or that position upon, or prior to his appointment, as shall be prescribed by law. (c) (1) A person who has been convicted of an offence, and has been sentenced to actual imprisonment, and on the day of his appointment seven years have not gone by since he ended serving the punishment of an actual imprisonment, shall not be appointed as minister, unless the Chairperson of the Central Elections Committee has ruled that there is no moral turpitude involved in the circumstances of the offence for which he was convicted. (2) The Chairperson of the Central Elections Committee shall not rule as stated in clause (1), if the court has ruled that the offence for which he was sentenced involves moral turpitude. (d) A person shall not be appointed as minister if he has a citizenship that is other than Israeli, if the laws in the country of which he is a citizen enables his release from this citizenship, only after he has done whatever is necessary on his part to be released from it. (e) A Member of the Knesset who has withdrawn from his Parliamentary Group, and did not resign from his service soon after withdrawing, shall not be a minister during the term of that Knesset. This provision shall not apply to a parliamentary group that has split in accordance with the conditions prescribed by law. For the purpose of this clause, "withdrawing from a parliamentary group" - as defined in article 6a of Basic-law: The Knesset. (f) With regards to this article – “Actual imprisonment” – including conditional imprisonment that was put into action. “Offence” – each of the offences for which he/she was sentenced to actual imprisonment.