Israel's Pseudo Bill of Rights

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Detail - Israel's Pseudo Bill of Rights

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In the early 1990's, the Knesset passed two Basic Laws which protected a range of civil rights for Israeli citizens, and which had built into them the power to be used for judicial review of subsequent laws passed by the Knesset (as per section 8 of the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty (1992), and section 4 of the Basic Law: Freedom of Vocation (1992), wherein they both say, "there shall be no violation of (these freedoms) except by a law befitting the values of the State of Israel, enacted for a proper purpose, and to an extent no greater than is required" (Jabareen, 1998; State of Israel Official Website, 1998)).

The rights defined and protected in these two Basic Laws are:

Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty (1992) (this section is actually reprinted in Appendix III) -
- freedom from violation of life, body, dignity, or property
- right to protection of their life, body or dignity
- freedom from imprisonment, arrest, extradition or otherwise
- freedom to leave and reenter Israel
- right to protection of privacy and intimacy
- right to protection from entry into, or search of property without permission
- right to confidentiality of conversation, writings, and records
Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation (1992) --
- freedom of choice over one’s occupation (State of Israel Official Website, 1998).

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