Beinish: Knesset does not have authority to violate Israel's basic law

Supreme Court President Dorit Beinish said that the Knesset doesn't have the authority to violate Israel's Basic Law. "If harm is done to the basic principles - for the Knesset to announce that the State has stopped being Jewish and democratic - the Knesset doesn't have the mandate. It goes against the Basic Law," she said.

MK Ronnie Bar-On claimed that changing the budget to a biennial cycle was an invalid step because it was done with a temporary order and not by through the accepted procedure of altering the Basic Law that applies to it. (Aviad Glickman)