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Rules of Procedure Table of Contents |
Unofficial Translation. For questions or comments, contact Susan Hattis Rolef |
PART B
BUSINESS OF THE KNESSET
CHAPTER FIVE
MEMBERS' MOTIONS FOR THE AGENDA
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Motion for the agenda
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75.
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A Member of the Knesset is entitled to propose to the Knesset to include in
its agenda a debate on a certain topic (in these Rules of Procedure - a motion
for the agenda);1 The proceedings for
the deliberation of the motion shall be in accordance with this chapter.
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Submission of a motion for the agenda
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76.
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A motion for the agenda shall be submitted to the Speaker in his bureau in the
Knesset building, in writing or by means of a telegram, no later than 12 a.m.
on the Monday of the week in which the sitting reserved for deliberation of
Knesset Members' motions for the agenda is to be held; A motion submitted after
that time shall not be included in the list of motions to be raised for debate
in that week.
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Words of explanation
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77.
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The person submitting a motion for the agenda, shall bring upon its submission
brief words of explanation regarding the essence of the motion.
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Approval by Speaker
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78.
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(a)
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A motion for the agenda requires the approval of the Speaker,2
and he is entitled not to approve it, should its content or wording include one
of the following:
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The wording of the motion implies a personal insult to a person,3
or judgment against a person;
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(2)
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A matter that is to be debated in the Knesset in the same week, or that came
up for debate, or was proposed as a motion for the agenda within the four weeks
preceding the date of the motion being submitted, unless changes have taken
place in the meantime, that justify a renewed debate of the same issue;
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(3)
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The issue is sub-judice.4
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(b)
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A Member of the Knesset, whose motion for the agenda has not been approved, is
entitled to appeal to the House Committee, and its decision shall be final.
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Referral of motion to a committee
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79.
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(a)
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Should the Speaker find, after consulting with the Foreign Affairs and Defence
Committee, that the raising of a motion for the agenda, and a debate thereon in
the Knesset plenum are liable to harm the security of the State, its foreign
relations, or secret international economic activities, he is entitled to
decide that the motion be deliberated in a committee,5
and once he has so decided, he shall announce his decision at the weekly
meeting of the Speaker and Deputy Speakers.
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(b)
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Should the Speaker decide, under paragraph (a), that a motion shall be
deliberated in a committee, the Committee shall hear the mover, and decide
whether or not the topic shall be included on its agenda; Should the Committee
decide to include the motion on its agenda, the motion shall be treated as a
matter referred by the Knesset for deliberation in this committee, and the
deliberation in it shall take place in accordance with the provisions of
Chapter Six.
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(c)
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In the case of a motion deliberated in a committee in accordance with
paragraph (a), the provisions of articles 82 to 84 shall not apply, and the
Committee shall deliberate the motion under paragraph (b), at one of its
following two meetings.
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(d)
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A motion deliberated in a committee pursuant to this article, shall be counted
among the motions that a parliamentary group is entitled to submit under
article 81.
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Agenda of sitting reserved for motions for the agenda
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80.
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(a)
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The Speaker and the Deputy Speakers shall determine the agenda for the sitting
at which Members' motions for the agenda are to be debated, taking into account
the size of the parliamentary groups to which the movers belong.
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(b)
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Should the motions be on a similar topic, they shall be debated in the order
of their submission.
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Quota of motions for the agenda per group (amendment No. 43)
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81.
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(a)
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The House Committee shall determine the number of motions for the agenda and
Members' bills, which each parliamentary group is entitled to submit in the
course of any parliamentary year, in accordance with the groups’ size, but it
shall provide greater opportunity, at its discretion, to groups not represented
in the Government.6
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(a1)
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The parliamentary group shall determine, within the framework of its quota for
the parliamentary year, and within the framework of its weekly quota, the time
when each of its Members can raise his motions for the agenda and private
Members’ bills, as long as it will enable each of its members to raise the
motions and bills that he is entitled to raise, in the course of the
parliamentary year.7
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(b)
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A motion debated as an urgent motion under article 82, shall not be counted
for the purpose of this article.
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Urgent motion
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82.
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A Member of the Knesset who has submitted a motion for the agenda is entitled
to request that his motion be presented for urgent debate in the Knesset
(hereinafter - an urgent motion); An urgent motion shall be submitted to the
Speaker in writing or by telegram, in his bureau at the Knesset building.8
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Approval of motions’ urgency
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83.
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(a)
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The urgency of a motion requires approval by the Speaker and the Deputy
Speakers.9
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(b)
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A motion for the agenda shall be approved as urgent should the Speaker and the
Deputy Speakers have determined:
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(1)
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That the debate of the motion in the Knesset is liable to prevent an act or
omission that is irreparable, or
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(2)
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That in the opinion of the Speaker and the Deputy Speakers the topic of the
motion is of urgent public interest.
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Time of debate on urgent motions
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84.
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A motion approved as urgent shall be debated by the Knesset during the week in
which it was submitted, and at a time set by the Speaker and the Deputy
Speakers.10
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(b)
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Should a motion be submitted on the last sitting day of a certain week, or on
the last day of the last week of a session of the Knesset, the motion shall be
debated on the same day, should the Speaker and the Deputy Speakers have so
decided, with the concurrence of the House Committee.
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Determination of House Committee on urgency of motions11
(amendment No. 46 & 87)
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85.
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In the case of an urgent motion that has not been approved, the Knesset Member is entitled to an appeal, on the same day, before the House Committee, and it shall deliberate it as the first item in its next meeting. | |
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Should the Knesset Member be absent from the meeting of the House Committee
when it deliberates his appeal, he shall be seen as someone who has not
appealed. But should the House Committee decide that he was unable to
participate in the meeting for a medical reason, or for some other justified
reason, another Knesset Member, who has been authorized by the appellant in
writing, may represent him in the Committee.
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(amendment No. 87)
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(b)
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Should the Committee decide that the motion is urgent, it shall be debated by
the Knesset the same week, subject to what is said in article 84.
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Motions for the agenda by a majority of Members
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86.
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(a)
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Should a number of Knesset Members from various parliamentary groups submit
motions for the agenda on a single topic, or different motions on the same
matter, and the number of members of these groups constitute a majority in the
Knesset, the Speaker and the Deputy Speakers are entitled to regard the topic
as one which the Knesset has decided to debate, following a motion for the
agenda, and the topic shall be included on the Knesset's agenda.13
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(b)
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The date for the debate on a topic under paragraph (a) shall be determined by
the Speaker within a month, and should the Knesset be about to go into recess
before the end of that time, the Speaker, with the consent of the proposers, is
entitled to set a later date for the debate, and in the absence of agreement
among the proposers, the House Committee shall set the date.
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(c)
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The provisions of paragraphs (a)and (b) shall apply also to urgent motions,
whose urgency has been confirmed by the Speaker and the Deputy Speakers, but
the debate shall be held in the same week in which the motions were submitted,
subject to what is said in article 84.
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(d)
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The provisions of article 52 (3) (c) shall apply to the proceedings of the
debate under this article.
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(e)
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A motion under this article shall not be reckoned among the motions that a
parliamentary group is entitled to submit under article 81.
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Government notice
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87.
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Should the Speaker approve a motion for the agenda, he shall so inform the
Government, and the Government shall give notice as to whether it wishes to
express its opinion on the motion.
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Proceedings of debate on motions for the agenda (amendments Nos. 17, 28 &
72)
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88.
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At a Knesset sitting reserved for debating motions for the agenda, the mover,
or another member of his parliamentary group, shall explain the motion within
the time limit not exceeding 15 minutes;14
Should a motion be submitted by a number of Knesset Members together, one of
them shall explain the motion.15
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(b)
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After the explanation in accordance with paragraph (a), the government is
entitled to propose, that the topic raised be debated in the Knesset, or that
it be deliberated in a Knesset committee, or that it not be included on the
Knesset’s agenda.17 Regarding this
article, the Government shall be represented by one of the following: the Prime
Minister, the Minister under whose authority the proposed topic is placed
directly or indirectly, or his Deputy who is the Minister serving as the
liaison between the Government and the Knesset, or another Minister, authorized
by the Prime Minister for this purpose.
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Should the Government propose, that the proposed topic not be included on the
agenda, a Member of the Knesset, whether or not from the mover's parliamentary
group, is entitled to propose that the topic be deliberated in a Knesset
committee; Should the Government propose that the topic be deliberated in a
Knesset committee, one of the Knesset Members is entitled to propose that it
not be included on the Knesset’s agenda.18
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Should the Government fail to asked to express its opinion on the topic
raised, or should the Government propose, that it be debated in the Knesset, a
Member of the Knesset is entitled to propose that the topic not be included on
the Knesset’s agenda; and one of the Members - whether or not from the mover's
parliamentary group - may propose that the topic be deliberated in a Knesset
committee.19
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Should the Government propose that the topic raised be debated in the Knesset,
or deliberated by a Knesset committee, it shall explain his proposal within a
time limit not exceeding fifteen minutes.20
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(f)
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Should one of the Knesset Members propose that the topic raised not be
included on the Knesset agenda, or that the topic raised be deliberated by a
Knesset committee, he shall explain his proposal from his seat, within a time
limit not exceeding one minute.
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(g)
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On a motion, the subject of which is an action of a parliamentary group which
is not the mover’s group, or an action of a Member of the Knesset, who belongs
to another group, a member of that parliamentary group, speaking on its behalf,
or the said Member, shall have the right of reply within a time limit not
exceeding ten minutes; The reply shall be given immediately after the
explanation of the motion for the agenda, and before the Government's proposal.
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Alternative proposals regarding a motion for the agenda
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89.
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Should a number of Members of the Knesset request to make one of the proposals
pursuant to paragraph 88(c) and (d), the right of explanation shall be granted
to one of them, on the basis of the order in which the requests were submitted,
and priority shall be given to a Member not from the parliamentary group of the
mover of the motion for the agenda.
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Reply regarding several motions
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90.
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(a)
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Should a number of motions for the agenda on the same topic, or a different
motion on the same matter be moved, the Government representative, as stated in
article 88(b) is entitled to speak on all of the motions, or on some of them,
on a single occasion, and the instruction of paragraph 88(e) shall not apply to
him.
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(b)
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Should the Government refrain from taking a stand as provided in paragraph
(a), or should a representative of the Government make one of the proposals as
provided for in articles 88(b) and (c), a Member of the Knesset, with the
consent of the Chairman of the sitting, is entitled to propose that all, or
some of the motions not be included on the Knesset’s agenda; The time limit for
the explanation of his proposal shall not exceed ten minutes. In addition, a
Member may propose, that all of the motions, or some of them, be deliberated by
a Knesset committee; The time provided for explaining his proposal shall not
exceed 10 minutes.
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Proposal for deliberation in committee
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91.
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The mover of a motion for the agenda, whose motion has been rejected by the
Knesset, and no one has proposed that the topic of his motion be deliberated in
a committee, is entitled himself to propose that his motion be deliberated in a
committee of the Knesset immediately after the rejection, and the mover is
entitled to make such a proposal before the rejection has been decided upon;
Such a proposal shall not be explained.
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Voting regarding motions for the agenda
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92.
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The vote on whether to include the topic of a motion on the Knesset’s agenda,
shall be taken after the explanation of the motion or motions under articles
88, 89 and 90; Should a certain topic fail to be accepted, and a proposal has
been made that it be deliberated by a Knesset committee, the Chairman of the
sitting shall put this proposal to a vote in favour or against; Should there be
several motions on the same matter, the Chairman is entitled to put all of the
motions, or some of them, to a single vote, or each of them to a separate vote,
but he shall put to a separate vote any motion, should the mover or one of the
parliamentary groups so demand.21
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Deferral of vote regarding of motions for the agenda
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93.
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Should the Government request the deferral of a vote, and the mover of the
motion concurred, the Chairman of the sitting shall ask whether there is any
objection to the deferral, and any one of the Knesset Members is entitled to
object to the deferral, without explanation; Should there be such an objection,
the Chairman shall put the matter of the deferral to a vote; Should the Knesset
decide in favour of the deferral, the Speaker and the Deputy Speakers shall set
a time for the vote, and inform the Members in advance of such a decision;
There shall be no further debate in the Knesset on this topic before that vote
is taken.
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Debate on a subject that the Knesset has decided to debate (amendments
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94.
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Should the Knesset decide to include on its agenda a motion for the agenda,
the topic shall be included on the Knesset’s agenda, and the Speaker - after
consulting with the Government - shall set the date for the debate in
accordance with his authority under article 31.22
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(b)
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Canceled
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Determining committee to deliberate a motion for the agenda
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95.
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Should the Knesset decide, that the subject of a motion for the agenda be
deliberated by a committee of the Knesset, but has not determined which
committee, whether because various committees were suggested,23
or because no specific committee was proposed, the House Committee shall
determine which committee is to deliberate the issue, and once it has decided
which is shall be, the Chairman of the House Committee shall announce the
decision from the Knesset podium.24
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Withdrawal of motion for the agenda (amendment No. 12 & 83)
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96.
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A Member of the Knesset is entitled to retract from his motion at any time
before the voting, in accordance with article 92, and should he retract, the
motion shall be removed from the Knesset’s agenda.25
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Should a Member ask to retract from his motion, after the Knesset has decided
to include the subject on its agenda, he shall so inform the Speaker; The
Speaker shall notify the Knesset of the request, and it shall decide, without
further notice or debate, whether to remove the issue from the agenda.
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Should a Member wish to retract from his motion after the Knesset has decided
the proposed subject shall be deliberated by a committee of the Knesset, he
shall so inform the Chairman of the Committee deliberating the matter; The
Chairman of the Committee shall communicate the request to the Knesset, should
the Committee have so agreed, and the Knesset shall take a decision on the
request without further notice or debate.
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If a subject has been on the Knesset's agenda for four months, not including
the period of the recess and the Speaker and the Deputy Speakers consider that
the grounds for its inclusion are gone, the Speaker and the Deputy Speakers are
entitled to propose to the Knesset that the subject be removed from the agenda,
and the Knesset shall decide the issue without further debate; Should the
Knesset Member who moved the motion object to the proposal of the Speaker and
the Deputy Speakers, he shall be given the floor for ten minutes to explain his
objection, and the Knesset shall decide the issue without further debate.
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Ministers' right to speak (amendment No. 72)
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97.
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A representative of the Government, as stated in article 88(b), presenting the
position of the Government on a motion for the agenda, and any other minister
concerned, is entitled to speak at any stage of the debate, under the
provisions of this chapter, in order to correct statements of fact, mentioned
during the debate.
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Motion for deliberation in a committee
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A Member of the Knesset is entitled to propose a motion for a deliberation in
one of the Knesset committees.
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The motion shall be submitted to the Speaker.
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The Speaker and the Deputy Speakers shall decide whether to refer the motion
for deliberation, and to which committee to refer it, as long as every week no
more than one motion shall be referred to each of the Committees.
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The Committee to which the issue has been referred for deliberation, shall
begin the deliberation within one week of the issue being referred to it, and
upon its termination, the Committee’s conclusions shall be laid on the
Knesset’s table; The Speaker shall decide whether to hold a debate in the
Knesset on the Committee’s conclusions.
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CHAPTER FIVE 1
PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY26
Section A
Setting Up of a Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry
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Proposal to establish a committee of inquiry (amendment No. 66)
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97b.
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A Member of the Knesset, or one of the Knesset Committees, are entitled to
propose to the Knesset to set up a parliamentary committee of inquiry, in
accordance with article 22 of Basic Law: the Knesset.
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The Knesset Member, who has proposed that a committee of inquiry be set up, or
the Chairman of the proposing Committee, shall explain his proposal, within a
time limit not exceeding 10 minutes, and shall request that it be referred to
the House Committee.
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Following the explanation in accordance with paragraph (b), a member of the
Government, speaking on its behalf, is entitled to move, within a time limit
not exceeding 10 minutes, that the proposal be removed from the agenda, or that
it be referred to the House Committee.
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Should the Government support the referral of the proposal to the House
Committee, or should it refrain from adopting a position, one of the Knesset
Members is entitled to move, that the proposal be removed from the agenda, and
to explain his proposal, within a time limit not exceeding five minutes.
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Should the Government, or one of the Knesset Members, move that the proposal
be removed from the agenda, the proposing Knesset Member, or the Chairman of
the proposing Committee, is entitled to once again reply, within a time limit
not exceeding five minutes.
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At the end of the debate, the Knesset shall decide whether to refer the
proposal to set up a parliamentary committee of inquiry to the House Committee,
or to remove it from the agenda.
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The House Committee shall prepare, within 30 days, a proposal to set up a
committee of inquiry, but it is entitled to bring, side by side with its
proposal, a recommendation to the Knesset to remove the proposal from the
agenda.
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A proposal to set up a committee of inquiry, can be by way of empowering one
of the Permanent Committees as a committee of inquiry, or by way of a proposal
of its make-up, with a number of members not exceeding nine, and which shall
also include representatives of parliamentary groups that are not participants
in the Government, taking into account, inter alia, the balance of
forces among the groups in the Knesset, as long as the Knesset Member who
proposed that the Committee of Inquiry be set up, shall be one of its members,
should he so request.
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A proposal to set up a committee of inquiry, shall elaborate the powers and
tasks of the Committee.
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The House Committee shall attach to its proposal reservations of the Committee
members, and of Government representatives; A reservation can reject the mere
proposal to set up a committee of inquiry.
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(e)
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Should the House Committee see, that the issues included within the framework
of the powers of the Committee of Inquiry are liable to harm the security of
the State, its foreign relations or confidential international economic
activities, it is entitled to propose that the meetings of the Committee of
Inquiry shall be confidential, as stated in article 102a(d).
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Laying on the Knesset table (amendment No. 66)
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97d.
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The proposal of the House Committee, together with the reservations as stated
in article 97c(d), shall be laid on the Knesset table by the Speaker, and he
shall place it on its agenda.
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(c) | Should the Member of the Knesset retract before the Knesset has debated his proposal as stated in article 97b, he shall inform the Speaker of the Knesset thereof; Should he retract after the Knesset has decided to refer the proposal to the House Committee, he shall inform the Chairman of the House Committee thereof; The Speaker of the Knesset, or the chairman of the House Committee, as the case may be, shall refer the message he received to the Knesset, and upon the referral of the message, the proposal shall be removed from the Knesset agenda; Should there have been several proposers, the name of the proposer who retracted shall be removed from the list of proposers. | ||||||||||
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The debate on the proposal of the House Committee shall open with a
presentation by the Chairman of the Committee, or by a member of the Committee
appointed by the Chairman of the Committee for this purpose.
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(b)
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The members of the House Committee and the members of the Government are
entitled to explain their reservations, within a time limit not exceeding 10
minutes.
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Each of the Knesset Members may participate in the debate, within a time limit
not exceeding five minutes.
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At the end of the debate the voting shall be held according to the following
order:
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Renewal of the Committee deliberation by request
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The House Committee is entitled to renew its deliberations on its proposal,
even after it has been laid on the Knesset table, as long as the debate on it
has not commenced.
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Should the House Committee decide to do so, the Speaker shall inform the
Knesset thereof, and the debate on the proposal shall be put off, until the
proposal is once again laid on the Knesset table.
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Renewed deliberation by request of the Knesset
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97g.
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At every stage of the debate on the House Committee proposal, the Knesset is
entitled, on the basis of a proposal by the Government or the Chairman of the
Committee, to call on the Committee to renew its deliberation on the whole
proposal, or on an issue that the Knesset shall specify in its resolution.
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The House Committee shall deliberate the proposal or the issue submitted by
the Knesset, and shall bring its proposals before it.
1 A motion for the agenda is a
request to include a certain topic on the agenda of the Knesset. (HCR -
21.1.1975)
2 (a) The Speaker is entitled to
request that the Knesset Member change the wording of his motion. For this
purpose he shall invite
the Member and explain his request to him. In the event of differences of
opinion, the opinion of the Speaker shall prevail. (HCR - 25.10.1950)
(b) Motions for the agenda left over when the recess commences - shall be
canceled, unless the proposers renew them after the recess. (Decision of the
Speaker and the Deputy Speakers - 16.7.1957)
3 Compare to the decision of the
House Committee on the issue of a parliamentary question concerning the
personal affairs of a
certain person, Part B, Chapter 3 on questions, foot note No. 3/
4 See decisions of the House
Committee regarding matters that are sub-judice in section "decisions on
Matter of Procedure".
5 The Speaker is entitled to decide,
after consulting with the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, that
the deliberation of
a motion for the agenda should take place in one of the Knesset Committees.
(HCR - 28.1.1985)
6 (1) Should a Member submit a bill
for preliminary debate, and the Government has given notice that it agrees that
the bill be
referred to a committee, or that the Government does not intend to take a
stand on this bill, and the bill has been presented by the proposer from his
seat, within a time limit not exceeding one minute, it shall not be counted
among the bill mentioned in article 81. Should the explanation take more than
one minute, the bill shall be counted among the said bills. (HCR - 16.2.1993)
(2) Bills signed by Members from several parliamentary groups, shall be at the
expense of the group decided upon by the proposers. (HCR - 4.3.1980)
7 The House Committee recommended to
the heads of the parliamentary groups on 5.2.1996, that they enable the members
of their
groups to raise their motions and bills within the framework of their quota,
in a manner of a reasonable distribution in the course of the parliamentary
year.
8 (1) Urgent motions submitted until
Monday at 10:30 shall be discussed at the meeting of the Speaker and the Deputy
Speakers on that
day. Motions submitted after this time shall be discussed the following day.
(2) Urgent motions submitted until Tuesday at 12:00 shall be discussed at the
meeting of the Speaker and the Deputy Speakers on that day. Motions submitted
after that time, as well as motions submitted on Wednesday - the Speaker will
consider and decide whether to call a meeting of the Speaker and the Deputy
Speakers to discuss them in accordance with article 84(b) of the Rules of
Procedure. (HCR - 21.1.1975)
9 (1) In the event of a draw in the
opinions at the meeting of the Speaker and the Deputy Speakers regarding the
urgency of a
motion for the agenda - the motion shall not be recognized as urgent. (HCR -
7.1.1964)
(2) Should the urgency of a motion for the agenda fail to be approved, and
after a while another Member of the Knesset has submitted a motion similar or
identical in its content, and its urgency has been approved - the urgency of
the previous motion shall also be approved, and it shall be placed in first
place, as long as the time that has elapsed since its rejection is no more than
eight days, from time to time. (HCR - 21.1.1975)
(3) The Speaker and the Deputy Speakers shall not approve as urgent motions
more than five topics per week; Should a Member submit more than one urgent
motion, only the last motion shall be brought to the approval of the Speaker
and the Deputy Speakers, unless the Member has requested otherwise. (HCR -
2.1.1995)
10 The Speaker and the Deputy Speakers can defer the debate on an
urgent motion from the week in which it was submitted, should
there be special reasons for doing so, and after hearing the reasons of the
Knesset Member for his request for deferral; Such a deferral shall be by one
week only. (HCR - 10.11.1980)
11 (1) A Member of the Knesset,
who is not a member of the House Committee, who has appealed the decision of
the Speaker and
the Deputy Speakers concerning the urgency of a motion for the agenda that he
has submitted, shall not be present during the voting in the Committee.
(2) A Member of the Knesset, who is not a member of the House Committee, who
has presented an appeal to the House Committee regarding the urgency of a
motion for the agenda, cannot stand in for a member of the Committee from his
parliamentary group, who is absent from the meeting.
(3) A member of the Committee who has appealed the decision of the Speaker and
the Deputy Speakers regarding the urgency of a motion for the agenda, shall not
participate in the voting.
(4) Should an appeal be presented to the House Committee regarding the
non-approval of a motion for the agenda as an urgent motion, a member of the
Committee, who has presented a similar motion that has not been approved, will
not be able to participate in the voting. (HCRs - 11.12.1989 & 8.7.1996)
12 The authorization to represent
shall be in writing. (HCR - 5.1.1996)
13 The Speaker and the Deputy
Speakers were accustomed not to decide in such a case except after consulting
with the
parliamentary groups to which the proposers belong.
14 An ordinary motion for the
agenda shall be explained in the time limit not exceeding 10 minutes; An urgent
motion for the
agenda shall be explained in a time limit not exceeding three minutes. (HCR -
2.1.1995)
15 (a) When there is a reasonable
cause for the absence of the Knesset Member from the chamber - the Member’s
right to explain
his motion at another time shall be upheld. (HCR - 8.6.1971)
(b) The House Committee decided, as a temporary order, that when twenty five
Members of the Knesset request that the Knesset be convened during recess, only
one of them shall explain the motion for the agenda, even if they belong to
several parliamentary groups, in accordance with paragraph 88(a); Should two
topics be specified in the request, each topic shall be explained by one of the
thirty. (HCR - 9.12.1973)
16 Whenthe motion for the agenda
relates to the actions of the Speaker, the custom is that the Chairman of the
House Committee
is the one to reply, and the Speaker speaks after him. (Knesset sitting on
30.1.1996)
17 The motion for the agenda is a
request that a certain topic be including on the Knesset’s agenda. Whoever
objects to this - whether
a Minister or a Member of the Knesset - shall state that he proposes that the
motion for the agenda should not be included on the Knesset’s agenda (in other
words, one should not use the wording “I move to remove from the agenda”, as
some are still accustomed to doing as a result of past routine, since as long
as the Knesset has not decided to include a certain topic on its agenda, it is
still on the threshold, and is not “removable” from the agenda). (HCR -
21.1.1975)
18 (1) Should there be no early
registration for an alternative motion, the Knesset Member can, during the
debate on the motions, and
after the mover’s words, and the Government’s position, if presented, are
heard, propose that the topic be deliberated in a Knesset committee, or that it
should not be included on the Knesset’s agenda. (Decision of the Speaker and
the Deputy Speakers - 24.6.1985)
(2) Should several motions for the agenda on a single topic be submitted
separately, and a member of the Government has proposed that the motion of a
certain Member of the Knesset be referred for deliberation in a committee, the
Member who submitted his motion on the same topic may propose, that the motion
of the certain Member should not be included on the Knesset’s agenda. (HCR -
7.7.1986)
19 Should the moving Member fail
to be in the chamber at the end of the Minister’s answer, his motion shall be
regarded as rescinded,
and none of the Members of the Knesset will be able to raise another motion.
(HCR - 2.1.1995)
20 Should a member of the
Government, who is speaking on its behalf, propose that the topic be debated in
the Knesset, or
deliberated in a Knesset committee, or not be included on the Knesset’s
agenda, he shall explain his proposal - in an ordinary motion for the agenda -
within a time limit not exceeding 10 minutes; In the case of an urgent motion,
or two urgent motions for the agenda - in a time limit not exceeding five
minutes; In a reply to three or more urgent motions for the agenda - in a time
limit not exceeding 10 minutes. (HCR - 2.1.1995)
21 a. The vote:
(1) The Chairman of the sitting - in accordance with article 92 - shall put to
a vote of who is in favour and who against, the inclusion of the motion of a
certain Member of the Knesset on the Knesset’s agenda. (In other words, the
voting should not take place twice: once in favour and against the inclusion of
the topic on the agenda, and a second time in favour and against its
non-inclusion on the agenda).
(2) Should the proposal on the inclusion of the motion on the Knesset’s agenda
be adopted, the proposal to send the motion to a committee shall not be put to
the vote (so that it should not happen that the two proposals are accepted by a
majority of the votes).
(3) Should the proposal to include the motion on the agenda fail to be
adopted, and there was a proposal to refer the motion to a committee - the
Chairman of the sitting shall put the proposal to a vote in favour and against.
(4) Following a decision by the Interpretations Committee - that one should
enable the exhaustion of the three options specified in article 88 of the Rules
of Procedure, in other words: (1) to include the topic on the agenda; (2) not
to include it; (3) to have the topic deliberated in a committee - the Chairman
of the sitting shall ask the mover whether he agrees to his motion being
referred to a committee only after a proposal has been made, and explained why
it should not be included on the agenda - in the event that such a proposal has
been made. Should the mover of the motion for the agenda agree that his motion
be referred to a committee, and there is no proposal that it not be included on
the agenda - the Chairman shall put the proposal to refer it to a committee to
the vote in favour and against. Should there be a proposal not to include it on
the agenda, and the mover agrees that his motion be referred to a committee,
the Chairman shall put to the vote the proposal that it not be included on the
agenda - opposite the proposal that it be referred to a committee.
(5) When there are two proposals only, the one to include the motion on the
agenda, and the second to refer it to a committee, and the mover does not agree
to a committee: the two proposals should be put to a vote, one opposite the
other.
(6) Should several motions for the agenda, submitted by Member of the Knesset
from different parliamentary groups, have been debated on a similar or
identical topic, each one of them may request that his motion be voted upon
separately from the rest of the motions. (HCR - 21.1.1975)
(7) A motion for the agenda, that the Knesset decided to refer to a committee,
shall be referred to it as originally worded when laid on the Knesset’s table
towards the debate on it. (ICR - 26.11.1991)
22 The authority to set the
Knesset’s agenda and the time-table of its debates, is in the hands of the
Speaker. This is an “inner
parliamentary” matter par excellance. The High Court of Justice does
not exercise its authority on matters such as these, save for exceptional
occasions, on which there is fear for the democratic fabric of life. (HCJ
4094/95, MK Hanan Porath v. the Speaker of the Knesset, Verdicts, 49(4), p.
177)
23 The Member proposing that a
matter be referred to a different committee, after there has been a proposal to
refer it to a certain
committee, is not entitled to be given the floor. (ICR - 2.3.1954)
24 (1) Once a decision has been
taken by the Knesset to refer a motion to a committee, the Chairman of the
sitting shall state, after
announcing the results of the vote: this or that motion has been referred to
this or that committee (or just to a committee, should two or more proposals
have been made regarding which committee it should be referred to). (HCR -
21.1.1975)
(2) After the Chairman of the sitting has stated, at the end of a voting, that
a bill or motion for the agenda shall be referred to this or that committee, no
other proposal shall be entertained. (ICR - 31.12.1990)
25 The Government is entitled to
take the floor, even when the mover has retracted from his motion.
26 On 1.1.2001, the Knesset
decided to appoint a Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry on the subject of
violence in sports.
On 6.3.2001, the Knesset decided to appoint a Parliamentary Committee of
Inquiry on the subject of the trade in women. On 27.6.2001 the Knesset decided
to appoint a parliamentary commission of inquiry on the crisis in the water
economy.
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