Women's Representation in the Knesset

The current Knesset has a woman MK serving as a Deputy Knesset Speaker, four women as head of Knesset Committees and 2 women head sub committees.

There are 18 female Knesset members in the current 16th Knesset, comprising 15 of the Knesset members the highest ever.

The Knesset Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women

Of the 120 members in its parliament, the Knesset, currently, 12 members of the Knesset are Arab citizens of Israel, most representing Arab political parties.

He entered the Knesset in May 1980, but in November he left the party and sat as an independent MK, before forming the Equality in Israel Panthers party.

We welcome the Knesset's decision to oppose any postponement of that disengagement.

This betokens recognition in highest echelons of the Knesset of its continuing importance.

These aircraft also used the more powerful Dart Mk 528 engine.

Israel s parliament, the Knesset, never discusses the program or appropriates money for it.

The Knesset added another layer of protection to victims of sexual violence.

Generally, the Knesset approves of major treaties either before or after their passage.

Consequently, the Knesset enacted the Retirement Age Law, 5763 2004 ( Retirement Age Law ).

This quiet majority is under represented in the Knesset because its members steer clear of political careers.

Shimon Ben Shlomo (, born 1942) is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1984 and 1988.

The Knesset held a special meeting which opened with warm words of gratitude for King Hassan by the Prime Minister.

On 28 March, the Knesset rejected draft legislation to introduce a national referendum on disengagement.

In January 2005, the Knesset voted to extend the law for another five months.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke before the Knesset, the legislature of Israel, in 2008 about Germany s special historical responsibility for Israel's security .

After the 1967 Arab Israeli War, and the passing of the Old City into Israeli hands, the Knesset passed a law protecting the holy places.

After the Knesset had voted to extend the law, the NGO filed a motion in July 2004 for a moratorium on its implementation.

Israel Election Compass In collaboration with the Israel Democracy Institute a compass was developed for the Israeli Knesset elections of 2009.

If the Knesset did not approve the budget before the end of the month, the Government would fall and new elections would follow automatically.

The Knesset Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women has continued its activities towards the advancement of the status of women.

Under section 9B, sports organizations shall submit annual reports to the Knesset Committee on implementation of this section.

Although he lost his seat in the 1951 elections, he returned to the Knesset on 6 July 1953 as a replacement for Aryeh Ben Eliezer.

He had, as he put it, gone to the end of the earth (the Knesset in Jerusalem), and in doing so transformed the region s politics beyond recognition.

On March 22, 2005 the Knesset approved Amendment no. 2 to the Law on Equal Rights for People with Disabilities 5758 1998, ( Equal Rights for People with Disabilities Law ).

Fears expressed by Israeli newspapers and a few Knesset members over Israeli's nuclear programmes remained unheard.

Shmaryahu Ben Tzur (, born 25 March 1944) is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party between 1996 and 1999.

Shimon Garidi (, born 1 December 1912, died 16 January 2003) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1951 and 1955.

The Jerusalem Law (, ) is a common name of Basic Law Jerusalem, Capital of Israel passed by the Knesset on July 30, 1980 (17th Av, 5740).

Yehuda Hashai (, born 3 January 1934) is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment from 1980 until 1984.

Following the energy crisis in the 1970s, in 1980 the Israeli Knesset passed a law requiring the installation of solar water heaters in all new homes (except high towers with insufficient roof area).

In 1977 he joined the new Democratic Movement for Change and was elected to the Knesset on the party's list in the elections later that year.

The Knesset Committee on the Status of Women is dedicated to improving women's representation in the academic staff of institutes of higher education, and held a number of sessions on this matter.

A later merger of the General Zionists and the Progressive Party led to the formation of the Liberal Party, which became the third largest in the Knesset in the 1961 elections.

The next day, 29 March, the 2005 State budget was passed by a Knesset plenum, averting the need for new elections.

The Knesset Research and Information Center, in a survey held at the end of June 2004, estimated that hundreds of female minors annually marry in Israel.

Shalom Avraham Shaki (, born 1906, died 4 November 1990) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party between 1962 and 1965.

The bigger parties must ignore the vested interests of their junior partners, go back to the drawing board, and raise the Knesset entry level substantially.

Only after three leftist members of the Knesset used their parliamentary immunity to speak on the issue did opaque headlines appear, and an Israeli court lifted the gag order.

One Israeli Knesset member allegedly stated that Israel had dropped neutron bombs containing fissile material in the area along the Golan that separated Israel from Syria.

At the very moment when negotiations were beginning in Geneva, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in the Knesset (Israel s parliament) that the possibility of a pre emptive attack on Iran s nuclear facilities could not yet be ruled out.

However, despite support from the Knesset and from a majority of Israelis, some elements of Israeli society have increased their protests and incitement against the Government and the Prime Minister, and have vowed to resist actively the disengagement process.