Sitting days
(amendment No. 78)

27.

(a)

The Knesset shall hold sittings on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

(b)

The Speaker, with the approval of the House Committee, is entitled to determine the number of sittings to be held each week, and their times, and he is entitled, with approval as aforesaid, to cancel a sitting, set an additional sitting, and set its time - whether on one of the days as stated in clause (a) or on another weekday - and set the day on which a session of the Knesset shall terminate, taking into account article 9 of the Knesset Law 5754-1994.

(c)

The Speaker is entitled to change the times of a sitting, or decide that a sitting be interrupted.

Publicity of debates and closing of doors (amend- ment No. 54)

28.

The sittings of the Knesset shall be public, and publication of their content is unlimited.

The minutes

29.

(a)

At sittings of the Knesset stenographic minutes shall be kept of the entire course of the proceedings, of the motions, and of the results of votes.¹

(a1)

The minutes shall be edited by the editor of the Knesset Record; Every Member of the Knesset shall receive a transcript of his own words - including interjections - for correction, and he is entitled to correct errors, mistakes and omissions; A Member wishing to so correct his words, shall return the minutes to the editorial office of the Knesset Record within seven days after receiving it.

(b)

Every Member of the Knesset is entitled to receive a copy of the minutes.

(c)

The minutes shall be published in the Knesset Record.

30.

(Canceled)

¹ (1) According to the accepted usage, the stenographic minutes and the Knesset Record contain only what is orally said in the

plenum, whether from the podium, or as an interjection. The printing of written additions, or of documents submitted by Members of the Knesset, is not possible, and they must be integrated in the speech itself; This restriction shall not apply to documents, which Ministers request to append to their speeches. (HCR - 11.7.1972)

(2) Details regarding the manner of electronic voting, shall be published separately in the compilation of “voting by Members of the Knesset”. (HCR - 7.6.1988