Topic

Law and Courts

Enacted statutes and Basic Laws, recorded Knesset votes, and judgments of Israel’s courts, quoted from the instrument.

Record ExplainerAugust 20, 2026

What Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty Protects, and Where Equality Actually Comes From

Israel’s 1992 Basic Law names six rights and contains no equality clause. The Supreme Court derived that rule in Ka’adan on 8 March 2000.

Primary DocumentAugust 20, 2026

Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, Clause by Clause

The 2018 Basic Law has eleven clauses and no equality clause. What each one says, and what the Supreme Court held in HCJ 5555/18 on 8 July 2021.