  We present the Knesset Corpus, a corpus of Hebrew parliamentary proceedings
containing over 30 million sentences (over 384 million tokens) from all the
(plenary and committee) protocols held in the Israeli parliament between 1998
and 2022. Sentences are annotated with morpho-syntactic information and are
associated with detailed meta-information reflecting demographic and political
properties of the speakers, based on a large database of parliament members and
factions that we compiled. We discuss the structure and composition of the
corpus and the various processing steps we applied to it. To demonstrate the
utility of this novel dataset we present two use cases. We show that the corpus
can be used to examine historical developments in the style of political
discussions by showing a reduction in lexical richness in the proceedings over
time. We also investigate some differences between the styles of men and women
speakers. These use cases exemplify the potential of the corpus to shed light
on important trends in the Israeli society, supporting research in linguistics,
political science, communication, law, etc.
