Seven weeks since the publication of the law memorandum, the Ministerial Committee on Legislative Affairs today (Sunday) unanimously approved the bill of the Minister of Justice, Gideon Saar, to limit the tenure of prime ministers.
The next step in the process of promoting the law is to bring it to the Knesset for the first time as soon as possible.
According to the bill, a Knesset member elected prime minister will be able to serve for up to eight years in a row, and when that period ends, the government headed by him will be considered to have resigned - and that Knesset member will not be able to run again.
Although he is referred to by his opponents as the "Netanyahu Law", according to Saar's proposal, the law will not apply retroactively and in fact the former Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will be able to run for office for another eight years.
"Prolonged rule is a danger to the nation's freedom and morality. It breeds corruption," Minister Saar quoted the late former Prime Minister Menachem Begin on his Facebook account.
He said, "Restricting tenure (instead of unlimited tenure) is an important principle at the base of the perception that the government will work for the benefit of the citizens, instead of for itself and its survival. We will continue to strengthen Israel as a Jewish and democratic state."