3 The National Insurance Law, 1953 (8 L.S.I. 4), itself constituted a social revolution of sorts which also changed the face of administrative law. It placed new obligations on almost every person vis-à-vis the administrative authority (such as the obligation to make social security payments), and at the same time provided the citizen with new rights as against the administrative authority (such as the right to receive pensions of various sorts). It established a variegated administrative apparatus with broad executive, legislative and adjudicative powers. In the area of legislation, the power to issue regulations for implementing the law was used many times, and at present under the National Insurance Law numerous regulations exist containing thousands of provisions regulating in detail the relations between the National Insurance Institute and the insured. In the area of adjudication, a National Insurance Tribunal was established, which afterwards was subsumed into the Labour Court, which has jurisdiction to adjudicate controversies between the insured and the Institute. The original law established only four categories of insurance. Since then many more categories were added. In 1968, a consolidated version of the law was published, and since then the law has been amended another seventy times. As a practical matter, the influence of this legislation on the national economy and on private life has been enormous. As a legal matter, the change it brought about in the relations between the individual and government is no less significant than any revolutionary ruling issued by the Court in administrative law. The enormity of the influence and importance was multiplied many times by the addition of other central laws in the early years of the state and afterwards, such as the Defence Service Law, 1949 (3 L.S.I. 112), the Compulsory Education Law, 1949 (3 L.S.I. 125), the Absentees' Property Law, 1950 (4 L.S.I. 68), and others.
