National Parks, Nature Reserves, Memorial Sites and National Sites Law, 1992.

This Law empowers the Minister of the Interior, after consulting with the Minister of the Environment, to declare an area to be a national park. No building work or other activity is permitted unless it has been approved by the National Parks Authority. The Minister may not cancel the declaration of a national park without the approval of the Minister of the Environment, The Council, the local authority in which the park is located, and the Interior and Environmental Committees of the Knesset. A National Parks Authority, appointed by the Minister of the Environment, will manage the national parks and report to the Minister.
Following consultation with the Minister of the Agriculture, the Minister of the Interior may declare an area of scientific or educational interest to be a nature reserve. A nature reserve is "an area in which animals, plants, inanimate objects, soil, caves, water and landscape are protected from changes in their appearance, biological makeup, and natural development." The Minister of the Agriculture shall appoint a Nature Reserves Authority to manage the affairs of nature reserves.
The Minister of Agriculture may declare, after consultation with The Council, any natural asset to be a protected natural asset throughout Israel or any specific part of it. A person may not damage, destroy, pick, uproot, poison or otherwise change a protected natural asset except with the permission of the Director of the Nature Reserves Authority.
A National Parks, Nature Reserves and National Sites Council, nominated by the Minister of the Environment, is established by this Law to advise the Ministers of the Interior and Agriculture on matters related to this Law. The Law also provides for the protection of national sites and memorial sites.