Knesset legal advisor: PM immunity bill must be passed as Basic Law
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A bill being pushed by the Likud Party seeking to shield a sitting prime minister from police investigation could not be passed as a regular law, only as a Basic Law, according to an opinion by Knesset legal advisor Eyal Yinon obtained by Ynet on Tuesday.
Responding to a query by MK Yoel Hasson (Zionist Union), Yinon wrote that "Since 1995, the basic premise in Israeli constitutional law has been that there is a normative hierarchy that grants the Basic Laws a higher status than that accorded to 'ordinary' laws. Accordingly, the amendment of a Basic Law should be made within the confines of a Basic law."
