Israel39S Basic Laws

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The basic laws of Israel are texts relating to constitutional adopted by the Knesset as chapters of a future constitution of the State of Israel.

Summary 1 History 2 List of basic laws 3 Reviews 4 Notes and references 5 See also 5.1 Bibliography 5.2 Article Related 5.3 External link

History

The State of Israel has no constitution formally. Although the declaration of independence May 14, 1948 announcement "a constitution to be adopted by a Constituent Assembly by October ^1, 1948," the divisions between religious and secular prevented the development of a single constitutional text. The Prime Minister David Ben Gurion persuaded the House not to complete its work before the return of constitutional Jews around the world in their homeland. According to some historians ^{List of basic laws}

The name of the texts in force is indicated in bold.

• 1958: The Knesset
• 1960: The land of Israel
• 1964: The Chairman of the State
• 1968: Government
• 1975: The national economy
• 1976: The Israel Defense Forces
• 1980: Jerusalem Capital of Israel
• 1984: The Judiciary
• 1988: The State Comptroller
• 1992: Human Dignity and Freedom
• 1992: Government
• 1992: Professional freedom
• 1994: Professional freedom
• 2001: Government

Criticism

The system established under resolution Harari is criticized on the grounds that the laws have been adopted by a committee which only a small part of the Knesset , have not been a national debate and have not been legitimized by a referendum or other democratic procedures. Moreover, these laws may be amended by an absolute majority, while the normal practice in democracies is a qualified majority or a referendum. This mode of adoption and amendment would call into question their constitutionality.

Others consider that the mere fact that they were adopted by the Knesset acting as a Constituent Assembly gives them their constitutional and superior to other laws.

References

• (In) This article is partially or entirely from the article in English entitled " Basic Laws of Israel "(see the list of authors )