IsraelElections for the 26th Knesset Law, disclosure on deep fake election propaganda
Elections for the Twenty-Sixth Knesset (Special Provisions and Legislative Amendments) Law 5786-2026, section 12 (temporary section 2A2 of the Elections (Propaganda Methods) Law, 5719-1959)
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Read from a public archive copy, not the publisher directly. The publisher does not serve this page to automated readers, so a direct fetch was not an option here; how we access sources. Archived 2026. Publisher's page: https://fs.knesset.gov.il/25/law/25_lsr_14147458.pdfIn force since .
An AI transparency rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Content labelling, Disclosure
- Audit expectation
- none
- Setting the rule reaches
- Elections
As of .
What it requires
- If you publish election propaganda for the Twenty-Sixth Knesset election that appears deeply real, meaning content created by digital means, artificial intelligence included, or edited by them so as to change it materially, attach a disclosure stating clearly and prominently that its content was not originally recorded.
- Follow the rules the Chair of the Central Elections Committee sets for meeting that disclosure duty.
- The duty reaches election propaganda first published on or after the day the section takes effect, and runs until one year after election day.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Temporary section 2A2 requires a disclosure on covered election propaganda; it creates no duty to keep any log, record or other documentation, and names nobody who may check one.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 12 of the law adds a temporary section 2A2 to the Elections (Propaganda Methods) Law, 5719-1959, for the period that begins one week after the law's publication and ends one year after election day for the Twenty-Sixth Knesset. A person who publishes election propaganda that appears deeply real, a deep fake, must attach a disclosure stating clearly and prominently that its content was not originally recorded.
The Chair of the Central Elections Committee may set rules on meeting the disclosure duty. The section does not apply to election propaganda first published before the day it takes effect. The law defines a digital means to include artificial intelligence. The definition of a deep fake reaches an event, a document or another object that may appear to have been recorded originally but was created by digital means, or edited by them so as to change it materially. The Knesset passed the law on . It was published in Sefer HaChukim 3546 on .
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