On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, I wrote:
On Tuesday night, the Prime Minister dismissed all the ministers of the Shinui faction of his coalition including the Minister of Interior. However, by law, the dismissal takes 48 hours to take effect and the outgoing Minister of Interior used his authority on Thursday (December 2nd) to set the dates from my previous message for the years 2005-2007 despite the fact that the dates had not yet been approved either by the Interior Committee or the Knesset.
However, it is not clear that this authority is legally binding -- i.e. whether these dates will be entered into the "reshumot" (the State of Israel's official register).
Israel's Attorney General ruled this afternoon that the former minister's declaration is not legally binding as it was not co-ordinated with the Interior Committee and has left the matter of DST dates for 2005-2007 for the next Minister of Interior who has not yet been appointed. Hence, there are no official dates for 2005 and beyond. I will update the list if and when there are new dates for 2005-2007. ___________________________________________________________________________ Ephraim Silverberg, CSE System Group, Phone number: 972-2-6585521 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Fax number: 972-2-5617723 WWW: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~ephraim E-mail: ephraim@cse.huji.ac.il