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Minority rights

Votes on equal rights and the prevention of discrimination on ethnic, religious, gender or other grounds

Timeline

Second and third reading2The votes where a law passes or fails
Preliminary and first reading32Bills at the start of the process
Prohibition of Discrimination in Products, Services and Entry into Places of Entertainment and Public Places Law (Amendment – Increasing the Compensation Amount without Proof of Damage) Bill, 2025

A bill to increase the amount of compensation in courts for discrimination without proof of damage, from 50,000 to 120,000 shekels.

July 1, 2026Preliminary reading
Did not pass34 / 51
Initiated by: a party that left the coalitionInitiator: Pnina Tamano-Shata
Pre-Military Academies Law (Amendment – Dedicated Budget for Accessibility and Inclusion of Participants with Disabilities) Bill, 2026

A bill to allocate a dedicated budget to pre-military academies for accessibility and the inclusion of participants with disabilities, up to one million shekels a year.

June 24, 2026Preliminary reading
Did not pass30 / 50
Initiated by: oppositionInitiator: Naor Shiri
Prohibition of Discrimination in Products, Services and Entry into Places of Entertainment and Public Places Law (Amendment – Prohibition of Discrimination in Housing) Bill, 2022

A proposal to expand the Prohibition of Discrimination Law so that it also applies to housing services (sale, rental, insurance and loans), with certain exceptions for specific cases.

January 21, 2026Preliminary reading
Did not pass33 / 52
Initiated by: oppositionInitiator: Yorai Lahav-Hertzanu, Yasmin Fridman and 9 more
Interpretation Law (Amendment – Definition of Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation or Religious Belief) Bill, 2023

Amending the Interpretation Law to add a definition of discrimination that also includes discrimination on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation or religious belief.

December 31, 2025Preliminary reading
Did not pass32 / 46
Initiated by: oppositionInitiator: Yorai Lahav-Hertzanu, Yasmin Fridman
Interpretation Law (Amendment – Definition of Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity) Bill, 2024

A bill to amend the Interpretation Law so that the definition of discrimination also includes discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity.

December 31, 2025Preliminary reading
Did not pass33 / 46
Initiated by: oppositionInitiator: Merav Michaeli
Interpretation Law (Amendment – Definition of Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity) Bill, 2025

A bill to amend the Interpretation Law so that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity will be considered discrimination in every piece of legislation.

December 31, 2025Preliminary reading
Did not pass30 / 43
Initiated by: a party that left the coalitionInitiator: Eitan Ginzburg
Investigation and Testimony Procedures Law (Accommodation for Persons with Intellectual or Mental Disabilities) (Amendment – Adapted Investigation and Testimony for People Coping with Mental Illness) Bill, 2025

The bill expands the definition of people entitled to adapted questioning in police proceedings to include people with mental disabilities as well, not only intellectual ones.

December 10, 2025Preliminary reading
Passed27 / 0
Joint initiativeInitiator: Michal Waldiger, Yonatan Mishraki and 9 more
Prohibition of Discrimination in Products, Services and Entry into Places of Entertainment and Public Places Law (Amendment – Increasing the Compensation Amount without Proof of Damage) Bill, 2024

A proposal to raise the maximum compensation without proof of damage in the Prohibition of Discrimination Law from 50,000 to 120,000 shekels.

November 26, 2025Preliminary reading
Did not pass42 / 51
Initiated by: a party that left the coalitionInitiator: Pnina Tamano-Shata
Prohibition of Discrimination in Products, Services and Entry into Places of Entertainment and Public Places Law (Amendment – Prohibition of Discrimination in Housing) Bill, 2023

A proposal to expand the Prohibition of Discrimination Law so that it also covers housing services, with limited exceptions for specific cases.

June 4, 2025Preliminary reading
Did not pass33 / 53
Initiated by: oppositionInitiator: Yorai Lahav-Hertzanu, Yair Lapid and 7 more
Women's Employment Law (Amendment – Extending the Maternity and Parental Leave Period for Parents of a Toddler with a Complex Disability) Bill, 2024

A proposal to extend maternity and parental leave by five additional weeks for employees whose child has a complex disability.

April 1, 2025Preliminary reading
Passed11 / 0
Initiated by: a party that left the coalitionInitiator: Pnina Tamano-Shata
Women's Employment Law (Amendment No. 66) (Extending the Maternity and Parental Leave Period for Parents of a Toddler with a Complex Disability) Bill, 2025

A proposal to extend maternity and parental leave by five additional weeks for employees who give birth to a child with a recognized complex disability.

April 1, 2025First reading
Passed11 / 0
Joint initiativeInitiator: Ya'akov Asher, Iman Khatib-Yassin and 7 more
Prohibition of Discrimination in Licensing on the Basis of Health Condition (Legislative Amendments) Bill, 2024

A proposal to prohibit discrimination in professional licensing in health fields on the basis of health status, by replacing the definition of 'dangerous disease' with the definition of 'contagious disease'.

February 25, 2025Preliminary reading
Passed6 / 0
Initiated by: a party that left the coalitionInitiator: Yonatan Mishraki
Prevention of Discrimination in Licensing on Grounds of Health Condition (Legislative Amendments) Bill, 2025

In the Physicians Ordinance, the Psychologists Law, the Dentists Ordinance, the Pharmacists Ordinance, the Social Workers Law, and the Regulation of Practice of Health Professions Law, mental illness was included in the definition of "dangerous illness," and in some of these enactments it was even included in that definition regardless of the question…

February 25, 2025First reading
Passed6 / 0
Joint initiativeInitiator: Michal Waldiger, Yonatan Mishraki
Abolition of Discrimination in the Purchase of Real Estate in Judea and Samaria Bill, 2024

Repeal of a Jordanian law that prevents the purchase of land in Judea and Samaria by foreigners, in order to allow Israeli citizens and those eligible for aliyah to purchase property in the territory.

January 29, 2025Preliminary reading
Passed57 / 33
Joint initiativeInitiator: Limor Son Har-Melech, Yuli Edelstein and 37 more
Abolition of the Discrimination in the Purchase of Real Estate in Judea and Samaria Bill, 2023

Repeal of a Jordanian law prohibiting the purchase of land in Judea and Samaria by Jews, and permitting every Israeli citizen and person eligible to immigrate to Israel to buy in this area.

January 29, 2025Preliminary reading
Passed58 / 33
Joint initiativeInitiator: Moshe Solomon, Limor Son Har-Melech and 28 more
Basic Law: Israel – The Nation State of the Jewish People (Amendment – Adding a Commitment to Equal Rights) Bill

A proposal to amend Basic Law: Israel by adding an explicit commitment of the state to equal rights for all its citizens.

January 1, 2025Preliminary reading
Did not pass27 / 47
Initiated by: a party that left the coalitionInitiator: Alon Schuster
Prohibition of Discrimination in Products, Services and Entry into Places of Entertainment and Public Places Law (Amendment – Increasing the Compensation Amount without Proof of Damage) Bill, 2023

A proposal to raise the maximum compensation without proof of damage in discrimination claims from NIS 50,000 to about NIS 120,000.

December 11, 2024Preliminary reading
Did not pass39 / 55
Initiated by: a party that left the coalitionInitiator: Pnina Tamano-Shata
Prohibition of Discrimination in Licensing on the Basis of Health Condition (Legislative Amendments) Bill, 2022

In the Physicians Ordinance, the Psychologists Law, the Dentists Ordinance, the Pharmacists Ordinance, the Social Workers Law, and the Regulation of Practice of Health Professions Law, mental illness was included in the definition of "dangerous illness," and in some of these enactments it was even included in that definition regardless of the question…

November 13, 2024Preliminary reading
Passed51 / 0
Joint initiativeInitiator: Michal Waldiger, Yonatan Mishraki
Legal Aid (Legal Aid for a Person in a Civil Proceeding under the Prohibition of Discrimination in Products, Services and Entry into Places of Entertainment and Public Places Law, 2000) (Temporary Provision) Bill, 2023

The law sets a temporary provision under which, for three years, the legal aid offices in the Ministry of Justice will provide legal aid in claims under the Prohibition of Discrimination in Products, Services and Entry into Places of Entertainment and Public Places Law, 5761-2000, without an economic eligibility check.

August 5, 2024First reading
Passed9 / 0
Government billInitiator: Pnina Tamano-Shata
Women's Employment Law (Amendment – Extending the Maternity and Parental Leave Period for Parents of a Toddler with a Complex Disability) Bill, 2023

A proposal to extend the maternity and parenthood period by ten more weeks for parents of a toddler with a complex disability, with eligibility for additional maternity pay.

July 10, 2024Preliminary reading
Passed14 / 0
Initiated by: oppositionInitiator: Youssef Atauna
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Other plenum votes6Approvals, motions for the agenda and procedural decisions

Knesset map by topic

A weighted position for each MK across all the votes on this topic (a third reading counts for more). 🟡 Mixed = voted both for and against in different votes. The map shows 143 MKs: 120 serving today, plus 23 who served at some point in the current term and actually voted on this topic - which is why the number is above 120.

Coalition(67 seats)

Likud· 37
Shas· 14

Left the coalition(9 seats)

Noam· 1

Opposition(44 seats)

Ra'am· 5
Labor· 4