**Total examination of election law needed by Hebrew-speaker (Knesset Elections Law)**

General Right to Vote
Basic Law
Basic Law: The Knesset
(1958, last amended 1987)

• Section 5 states, Every Israel national of or over the age of eighteen years shall have the right to vote in elections to the Knesset unless a court has deprived him of that right by virtue of any Law...”
• Section 6 states, “Every Israel national who on the day of the admission of candidates list containing his name is twenty-one years of age or over shall have the right to be elected to the Knesset unless a court has deprived him of that right by virtue of any Law.”

Specific Inclusion of People with Disabilities
Equal Rights for Israeli People with Disabilities Law
(1998)

• Section 4 states, “A person with disability has the right to make decisions that pertain to her/his life according to her/his wishes and preferences; this right shall be exercised in conformity with the law.”

• Basic Laws - http://knesset.gov.il/description/eng/eng_mimshal_yesod1.htm
• Hebrew-language election law - http://www.knesset.gov.il/elections16/heb/laws/menu.htm
• Equal Rights for Israeli People with Disabilities Law - http://www.dredf.org/international/israel.html