Crossword clues for knesset
knesset
- The legislature, in Israel
- Literally, "assembly"
- Legislature whose current speaker is a member of the Likud party
- Its speaker is Reuven Rivlin
- Israeli's diet?
- Israeli group
- Israeli diet
- Givat Ram assembly
- Diet in the Mideast
- Body that first convened in February 1949
- Body in Jerusalem
- Ben-Gurion's parliament
- Assembly in Jerusalem
- 120-member legislature
- Contentious political assembly
- Overseas assembly
- Israel's parliament
- It has 120 seats in Israel
- Israeli parliament
- Israeli legislature
- Mideast diet
- Mideast legislature
- Israeli diet?
- The Israeli unicameral parliament
- Israeli body
- Israel's legislature
- Parliament of Israel
- Legislature located in Givat Ram
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Israeli parliament, 1949, from Mishnaic Hebrew keneseth "gathering, assembly," from stem of Hebrew kanas "he gathered, assembled, collected."
Wikipedia
The Knesset ( ; lit. the gathering or assembly; ) is the unicameral national legislature of Israel. As the legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister (although the latter is ceremonially appointed by the President), approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government. In addition, the Knesset elects the State Comptroller. It also has the power to waive the immunity of its members, remove the President and the State Comptroller from office, dissolve the government in a constructive vote of no confidence, and to dissolve itself and call new elections. The Prime Minister may dissolve the Knesset. However, until an election is completed, the Knesset maintains authority in its current composition. The Knesset is located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.
Usage examples of "knesset".
Israel that only has, like, five seats in the Knesset, but their five votes are always needed to form a majority government.
It was clear that he wanted to make peace, but when I suggested that he ought to go to Israel, reach out to the Israeli citizens, and make his case in the Knesset as Anwar Sadat had done, I could tell that I was beating a dead horse.
He hadn't signed any provocative petitions or staged sit-ins at the Knesset or sent angry or threatening letters to the prime minister or any of his Cabinet officials.