Basic Law: The President of the State חוק יסוד: נשיא המדינה
Defines the office of President as Israel's ceremonial head of state, elected by the Knesset for a single seven-year term (since the 1998 amendment took effect in 2000). The presidency stands above day-to-day politics and serves as a unifying national figure, embodying the continuity and shared identity of the Jewish state.
کلیدی شقیں
- Elected by the Knesset by absolute majority (61 MKs) in a secret ballot for one seven-year term
- Open to any Israeli citizen and resident
- Signs laws, ratifies treaties, accredits ambassadors, formally appoints judges, the State Comptroller, and the Bank of Israel Governor
- Exclusive power to pardon convicts and commute sentences
- Tasks an MK with forming a government after each election or after a government falls
- Enjoys immunity from prosecution; may be removed only by a three-quarters Knesset supermajority (90 of 120 MKs) for behavior unbecoming the office
پسِ منظر
Enacted on 16 June 1964 to codify the office that had operated since 1948 under improvised arrangements (Chaim Weizmann, the renowned Zionist statesman and scientist, was Israel's first president). The drafters deliberately chose a symbolic, integrative presidency to keep executive power concentrated in the parliamentary cabinet while preserving a dignified head of state who could represent the entire nation.
قابلِ ذکر ترامیم
- 1998: Reduced presidency to a single seven-year term (effective 2000, first applied to President Moshe Katsav), eliminating the option of a second consecutive five-year term
- 1999-2000: Procedural amendments on election and resignation
آج
President Isaac Herzog (elected 2021) has used the office as a national mediator during the 2023-24 judicial-reform debate and throughout the war that followed the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre, traveling abroad to make Israel's case to world leaders and comforting bereaved families and hostage relatives at home. His steady, unifying voice has reinforced the presidency's standing as one of Israel's most trusted institutions.
یہ کیوں اہم ہے
Provides a politically neutral figure who embodies the Jewish and democratic state, brokers government formation, and, in moments of acute polarization or national crisis, has emerged as one of the few unifying institutions Israelis from across the political and religious spectrum still rally around.
اس صفحے کا حوالہ دیں
Basic Law: The President of the State (1964). ریاستِ اسرائیل. https://thestateofisrael.com/ur/basic-law/the-president-of-the-state