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• Total examination of election law needed by Hebrew-speaker

General Right to Vote
Basic Law:
(1958, updated 1987: Basic Law: The Knesset)
• 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…"

Off-Site Voting Alternatives
Basic Law:
(1958, updated 1987: Basic Law: The Knesset)
• Special arrangements have also been made for prison inmates to vote, as well as for those confined to hospital.
Poll Worker Manuals:
(1996)
• Reiterates the above provision