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| leader1_type      = [[President of Yisrael|President]]
| leader1            = [[Noah Feldman]]
| leader1            = [[Yitzchok Katz]]
| party1            = ([[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|RC]])
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| structure1_alt    = Current composition of the Royal Knesset
| structure1_alt    = Current composition of the Royal Knesset
| political_groups1  = '''[[Government of Yisrael|HRM Government]] (76)'''
| political_groups1  = '''[[Government of Yisrael|HRM Government]] (85)'''
*{{legend|#0F0FFF|[[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|Royalist Conservative Party]]: 59 seats}}
*{{legend|#0F0FFF|[[Royalist Conservative Party (Yisrael)|Royalist Conservative Party]]: 64 seats}}
*{{legend|#C5CE88|[[Action Yisrael]]: 12 seats}}
*{{legend|#C0C0C0|[[Torah Achdus]]: 19 seats}}
*{{legend|#800000|[[League for New Judea]]: 5 seats}}
*{{legend|#800000|[[League for New Judea]]: 2 seats}}
'''{{wp|Confidence and supply|Non-coalition caucusing with HRM's Government}} (16)'''
'''{{wp|Parliamentary Opposition|HRM Opposition}} (42)'''
*{{legend|#C0C0C0|[[Torah Achdus]]: 16 seats}}
*{{legend|#add8e6|[[Alternative for Yisrael]]: 25 seats}}
'''{{wp|Parliamentary Opposition|HRM Opposition}} (50)'''
*{{legend|#C5CE88|[[Action Yisrael]]: 17 seats}}
*{{legend|#EAA328|[[Constitutional Liberal Party]]: 42 seats}}
'''{{wp|Parliamentary opposition|Other Opposition}} (15)'''
*{{legend|#7CFC00|[[Alliance of Greens, Seculars, and Workers]]: 8 seats}}
*{{legend|#EAA328|[[Constitutional Liberal Party]]: 14 seats}}
*{{legend|#7CFC00|[[Alliance of Greens, Seculars, and Workers]]: 1 seat}}
| voting_system1    = {{wp|First-past-the-post voting}}
| voting_system1    = {{wp|First-past-the-post voting}}
| last_election1    = [[Yisraeli general election, 2018|January 17, 2018]]
| last_election1    = [[Yisraeli general election, 2018|January 17, 2018]]

Revision as of 06:34, 26 February 2020

The Royal Knesset of the Kingdom of Yisrael

ההכנסה המלכותית של ממלכת ישראל
Type
Type
Leadership
Leader of the Knesset
Structure
Seats142
Current composition of the Royal Knesset
Political groups
HRM Government (85)

HRM Opposition (42)

Other Opposition (15)

Elections
First-past-the-post voting
Last election
January 17, 2018
Meeting place
Yis Knesset session room pic 1.jpg
Dervaylik, Yisrael

The Royal Knesset of Yisrael is the unicameral national legislature of the Kingdom of Yisrael. It is the legislative branch of the Kingdom and its territories. It currently has 142 members, who are elected directly by citizens who are registered voters on the 1st of Shevat on even years of the global secular calendar.

The Knesset is charged with lawmaking, declaring war or authorizing military force, the power of the purse, creating or eliminating public services, the oversight, investigation, and impeachment of sitting government officials, ratifying treaties, and providing the advise and consent for presidential appointments.

Legislation may be introduced by an individual Member of Knesset (MK) or groups of MKs. Per its parliamentary model, it elects the Leader of the Knesset from its largest or governing party after each election. The Knesset must have an election every two years. Every four years, the presidential election is run concurrently alongside the Knesset's.

The Knesset is widely-known for its unruly, polarized political atmosphere and unstable deal-making.

History

Role, powers, and duties

Members and elections

Qualifications

Officers

Legislative procedure

Current composition

Parliamentary composition since 2004

Knesset Years Knesset President Governing Majority Party Margin of Majority Control
RCP CLP TA AY AfY1 AGSW LNJ Ind. Vacan
cies
49th 2020-2022 64 14 19 17 25 1 2 0 0 Yitzchok Katz Blue-Silver-Maroon coalition +43 (to UCB's 42 seats)/
+28 (to all minority parties)
48th 2018-2020 59 42-321 16 12 0-101 8 5 0 0 Noah Feldman Blue-Gray-Maroon coalition +4/
+20 (with supply and confidence from Torah Achdus)
Knesset Years Knesset President Governing Majority Party Margin of Majority Control
RCP CLP TA AY AGSW LNJ Ind. Vacan
cies
47th 2016-2018 64 39 18 7 3 11 0 2 Noah Feldman Blue-Maroon coalition +32
46th 2014-2016 41 66 15 9 6 2 3 1 Gold-Gray-Green-White coalition +5
45th 2012-2014 64 48 16 5 43 3 2 2 Blue-Silver coalition +8
Knesset Years Knesset President Governing Majority Party Margin of Majority Control
RCP CLP TA AY4 GP YLP LNJ YCA5 Ind. Vacan
cies
44th 2010-2012 58 51 16 3 2 2 5 3 2 46 Eitan Herzog Blue-Silver coalition +2
Knesset Years Knesset President Governing Majority Party Margin of Majority Control
RCP CLP TA GP YLP LNJ YCA Ind. Vacan
cies
43rd 2008-2010 52 60 13 5 3 2 3 4 0 Eitan Herzog Gold-Green-Pink-White coalition +1
42nd 2006-2008 577 577 14 3 2 08 4 5 0 Gold-Green-Pink-White coalition +17
Knesset Years Knesset President Governing Majority Party Margin of Majority Control
RCP CLP TA GP YLP NUP YCA Ind. Vacan
cies
41st 2004-2006 46-4510 66-6710 12 5 4 29 3 3 3 Eitan Herzog Gold-Green-Pink coalition +4/+510

Footnotes
1. The Alternative for Yisrael split off from the Constitutional Liberal Party on November 7, 2019, at the end of the 48th term of Knesset and about two months from the 2020 general elections. 10 sitting Con-Lib MKs defected to the new party.
2. Torah Achdus neither sat in the opposition nor had a supply and confidence agreement with the ruling Conservatives.
3. The smaller Green Party and Yisraeli Labor Party merged together on February 8th, 2012, three weeks after the 2012 elections, combining their 4 seats (3 Greens, 1 Labor Party).
4. The Action Yisrael party was formed on May 24th, 2009, in advance of the 2010 elections.
5. The YCA was found to have illegal ties to anti-Yisrael terrorist groups the Christian Defense League and the Free Yarden Valley Catholic Front in the aftermath of the 2011 Yericho riots. Its MKs were arrested by the YeMep and the party banned under the Domestic Subversive Organizations Act before the 2012 elections.
6. None of the vacancies resulted in a change of partisan affiliation. All the seats were filled by persons of the same party.
7. Vice-President Oren Waltenstein would often be required to stay on premises for Knesset votes to cast the deciding vote due to the evenly-split Knesset between HRM Government led by the Con-Lib-Green-Labor-YCA-Indep. coalition (71) and HRM Opposition of the Conservatives and their allies the Torah Achdus party (71).
8. The Northern League, although in existence since 1974, had no won any seats since the 1980s. The party had a leadership election in February 14th, 2006, and elected David Touro as party chairman. Touro rebranded the party as "far right lite" and moderated the more extreme stances of the party as well as recruited credible right-wing activists and buildt needed campaign infrastructure in the Yarden River Valley and ethnic Tarsan Jewish areas to field successful candidates for the next election cycle.
9. The right-wing National Union merged with the Royalist Conservatives several months before the 2006 elections.
10. Avigdor Korvo, an MK from Ashkelon, party-switched several days after the election from Conservative to Con-Lib and was given a prominent role on the Knesset Appropriations Committee.