| Most of the Socialist parties' leaders and their representatives in the Knesset came from those groups. |
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| The Knesset could, in a no-confidence vote by an absolute majority of its members, oust the prime minister and her or his government. |
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| At the same time, smaller parties that fielded no candidates for prime minister invested all their efforts in the Knesset elections. |
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| Let's hope that that the increased presence of women in the new Knesset will help free us from that chauvinism once and for all. |
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| About one-third of the members of the current Knesset show contempt for democracy's moral contents. |
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| A former speaker of the Knesset — like Netanyahu, he is a member of the Likud — he was a clubhouse pol, a backslapper, a vote trader. |
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| The discussion was held under the auspices of two Members of Knesset, Tamar Zandberg and Dov Henin. |
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| The Committee may approve such an order with or without adjustments, or they may disapprove it, or bring it before the Knesset. |
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| I believe that in order to narrow the definition, we can perhaps use Knesset member Natan Sharansky's three Ds test. |
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| Prior to the election, each party presents its platform, and the list of its candidates for the Knesset, in order of precedence. |
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| He had been negotiating with the right-wing and religious parties to build a solid block of 67 seats in the 120-member Knesset. |
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| Mind-boggling maths ReprintsThe prime minister needs at least 61 votes in the 120-seat Knesset. |
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| All engaged parties were fully aware that when the Knesset began its full session at the end of October, it might well call early elections. |
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| Such an order must be brought before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, as soon as possible after it is issued. |
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| In 1978, as Knesset Speaker, he abstained in the vote on the Camp David Accords with Egypt. |
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| The rally was organized by a disciple of Meir Kahane who sits in the Knesset, Michael Ben Ari. |
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| But that place is outside the Knesset or Congress, pressing in, not ensconced and privileged and from the inside. |
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| Her words were warmly received by the Speaker of the Knesset, a politician from Shas, the sephardic ultra-Orthodox party. |
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| Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein chased the MDA officials from the parliament. |
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| Nope, according to Tzachi Hanegbi, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. |
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| That's precisely two less than they would need to constitute a majority in the Knesset. |
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| The Knesset approved the first reading of the legislation in June, but with only a three-vote margin. |
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| Such a Knesset would probably vote in a better government than any we have had so far. |
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| None of them would have entered the Knesset had the threshold been four percent. |
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| Ariel Sharon's speech to the Knesset was remarkable for its kind and collegial tone when he talked about his political opponents and his new cabinet allies. |
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| Tibi had previously symbolically spilled water on Prawer Bill in Knesset. |
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| Speaking in the Knesset on June 8th, Mr Ben-Eliezer tried anyway, regaling the apathetic and half-empty government benches with a stream of pejoratives. |
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| The number of Supreme Court justices is determined by a resolution of the Knesset. |
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| However, until an election is completed, the Knesset maintains authority in its current composition. |
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| The Knesset numbers 120 members, a subject which has often been a cause for proposed reforms. |
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| The Knesset is divided into committees, which amend bills on the appropriate subjects. |
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| Many Likudniks running for top spots in party institutions or for places on the next Knesset list feel they need his support. |
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| Even Mr Abraham Burg, a former President of the Knesset, raised the alarm. |
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| If the same happened after the new Knesset is sworn in, the turpitude would require him to resign from the new Knesset and wait till the next elections four or more years away. |
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| If he were convicted before the election, guilty of moral turpitude, but not sentenced to prison, the turpitude would expire with the present Knesset. |
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| I am thinking of the courageous statements made by Mr Avraham Burg, Speaker of the Knesset, who believes that a nation of occupants will end up being disfigured by the crimes of occupation. |
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| Thus the Knesset elected by Israel's first election in 1949 is known as the First Knesset. |
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| Knesset seats are allocated among the various parties using the D'Hondt method of party list proportional representation. |
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| As a result of the low threshold, a typical Knesset has 10 or more factions represented. |
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| The Knesset can adopt and amend Basic Laws acting through its capacity as a Constituent Assembly. |
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| Another well known case is Zvi Luz, son of a former Speaker of the Knesset, who grew up in a nonreligious kibbutz, Deganya B, and today follows a completely orthodox way of life. |
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| Such a coalition would hold 65 seats in the Knesset but in such a scenario, the religious parties would have to come to terms with certain laic projects of Avigdor Liberman. |
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| This is the only alternative, as has been pointed out by courageous people like the Speaker of the Knesset, Avraham Burg, whom we all recall speaking from that podium a year or so ago. |
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| The current Knesset, elected in 2015, is the Twentieth Knesset. |
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| However, such legislation may only deal with Basic Laws and laws dealing with the Knesset, elections to the Knesset, Knesset members, or the State Comptroller. |
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| After an election, the President meets with the leaders of every party that won Knesset seats and asks them to recommend which party leader should form the government. |
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| Committee chairpersons are chosen by their members, on recommendation of the House Committee, and their factional composition represents that of the Knesset itself. |
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| The Knesset is protected by the Knesset Guard, a protective security unit responsible for the security of the Knesset building and Knesset members. |
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| The Knesset is presided over by a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker. |
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