Ending the Knesset

(a) A Member of the Knesset, who serves as a minister or membership of a a deputy minister is entitled to terminate his minister or a deputy membership in the Knesset on the basis of the minister (Amendments provisions of this article. Terminating the membership Nos. 49, 51 & 52) as stated shall be by means of a written notice to the Speaker of the Knesset, with the attachment of the written approval of the Chairperson of the Knesset Members’ Parliamentary Group, and the provisions of article 40 shall apply to it. The provisions of this article shall not apply to a Member of the Knesset serving as Prime Minister, his Deputy, the Alternate Prime Minister, or the Acting Prime Minister. (Amendment No. 52) (a1) Despite what is said in clause (a), a Member of the Knesset, who serves as a minister or as a deputy minister is not entitled to stop his membership in the Knesset in accordance with this article in the period from the beginning of the term of a new Knesset, and until the formation of a government in accordance with article 13 or 13a(e) to Basic-Law: The Government, and from the 90th day before the Knesset’s election day, in accordance with article 9, or from the day on which the reason was created for the holding of elections in accordance with article 34 or 36a, or in accordance with article 11(b) or 29(f) to Basic-Law: The Government, as applicable. (b) The Knesset membership of a Member of the Knesset, who submitted a notice as stated in clause (a), shall terminate 48 hours after the notice reached the hands of the Knesset Speaker, unless he retracted from his previous notice in a written notice to the Speaker of the Knesset. Should the said period end on a rest day, it shall be put off to the following day that is not a rest day, and all as prescribed by law. (c) Should the Knesset membership of a minister or a deputy minister terminate on the basis of the provisions of this article, his membership in the Knesset to which he was elected shall be renewed, should one of the following occur: (1) He ceased to serve as a minister or a deputy minister; (2) He became Prime Minister, or Alternate Prime Minister; (3) He was assigned to serve as Acting Prime Minister; (4) He became Deputy Prime Minister. (Amendments Nos. 51 (d) (1) These provisions shall apply with regards to the & 52) maximal number of Knesset Members in the same parliamentary group, who may terminate their membership in the Knesset according to this article: (a) Should the Parliamentary Group number one to three Members of the Knesset – half the members of the Parliamentary Group may terminate their membership. Should the result of the calculation not lead to a whole number, the number shall be completed to the next whole number; (a1) Should the Parliamentary Group number four to six Members of the Knesset – three Members of the Knesset may terminate their membership; (b) Should the Parliamentary Group number seven to nine Members of the Knesset – four Members of the Knesset may terminate their membership; (c) Should the Parliamentary Group number between ten to seventeen Members of the Knesset – five Members of the Knesset may terminate their membership. (d) Should the Parliamentary Group number at least eighteen members of the Knesset – a third of the members of the Parliamentary Group may terminate their membership. Should the result of the calculation not lead to a whole number, the number shall be completed to the next whole number. (2) A change in the number of members of a parliamentary group resulting, inter alia, because of splitting or a merger with another parliamentary group, shall not affect the termination of the Knesset membership of a Member of the Knesset before the change, as stated. (e) Should the Knesset membership of a Member of the Knesset terminate in accordance with this article, and his membership in the Knesset was renewed because he ceased to serve as a minister, or ceased to serve as a deputy minister, due to circumstances other than those listed in article 26(2) of Basic-Law: The Government, his membership in the Knesset shall not be terminated again in accordance of the provisions of this article, during the term of that Knesset. (f) (1) Despite what is said in clause (c) a minister or a deputy minister who was a Member of the Knesset and terminated his membership in the Knesset on the basis of this article, and a Member of the Knesset, who is a minister or deputy minister, who are members of the same parliamentary group, are entitled to inform the Speaker of the Knesset in a joint written notice of the renewal of the Knesset membership of the minister or deputy minister whose membership was terminated, and the termination of the service of the other Knesset Member, at the same time (in this Basic Law - the replacement notice). (2) The provisions of clause (b), with the required changes, shall apply to the renewal of membership and termination of membership in the Knesset in accordance with the replacement notice. However, a retraction from the replacement notice shall take place only by means of a written joint notice by those submitting the replacement notice to the Speaker of the Knesset. (3) A Member of the Knesset, whose Knesset membership was renewed on the basis of paragraph (1) shall not submit an additional replacement notice during the term of that Knesset. (Amendment No. 52) (g) A minister or a deputy minister, who ended his membership in the Knesset in accordance with this article, and submitted a letter of resignation in accordance with article 22(a) or 26(1) to Basic-Law: The Government, or who received a letter of removal from office in accordance with article 22(b), 26(3), 43d(b) or 43e(b) to Basic-Law: The Government, as applicable, is entitled to inform the Speaker of the Knesset, soon after the time of submission or receipt as stated, that his membership in the Knesset shall not be renewed, and he shall be considered to have resigned from the Knesset at the time of the end of his service in the Government. The provisions of article 40 shall apply to the notice to the Speaker of the Knesset, as stated in this clause, with the necessary changes.