Nature of the Presidency

The Government and Cabinet Ministers

• Government ministers are not elected representatives but managerial and professional officeholders appointed exclusively by the President. A serving member of the Sanhedrin may not be appointed as a minister.
• The President must appoint only qualified professionals with extensive knowledge of the fields for which they will be responsible. Responsibility and authority for assessing their qualifications and suitability rest solely with the President.
• A minister’s entry into office will not be conditional upon approval, consultation, or a hearing by the Sanhedrin or any other governmental authority.
• Ministers report directly to the President, who may dismiss or replace them at any time.
• The appointment of ministers without portfolio, or to symbolic or declaratory positions lacking a defined executive ministry and a proven organizational need, will be entirely prohibited.
• The Constitutional Court may disqualify a ministerial appointment only on specifically defined and objective grounds: a criminal record, offenses involving moral turpitude, or a direct, proven, and unresolvable economic conflict of interest.
• The Court may not intervene in an appointment on grounds of insufficient experience or unreasonableness.

Constitutional Judicial Review

The Constitutional Court may invalidate Presidential Regulations, ministerial decisions, or executive policies only where a judicial proceeding establishes that they expressly conflict with laws enacted by the Sanhedrin, the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights.