Israel's Knesset (parliament) Speaker Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday launched a new website for the national legislature, which promises real-time and comprehensive access to lawmakers, debates, and pending bills.

"The Knesset is the house of the people, and everything which occurs between its walls must be open, accessible and clear to the public," Rivlin said in a statement on the English-language page.

"Beyond the Knesset's responsibility to provide full transparency, we must also support participation from the public in parliamentary processes, in the Knesset committees and Plenum. These are the principles on which the new website rests, and on this issue the Knesset is a model for other public institutions," Rivlin said.

The multimedia, open-database site "places the Knesset among the leading suppliers of legislative information in any country, providing accessible and up-to-date real-time data," Knesset spokesman Yotam Yakir told The Times of Israel.

In addition to offering live-streamed and video-on-demand coverage of plenum and committee debates, the website is running a Microsoft "FAST" search engine that allows access to "every individual piece of information on the site," including "protocols, plenum discussions, voting results and broadcasts of different committees," according to its developers.

The Knesset "creates news at an unstoppable pace," Knesset Director-General Dan Landau said, noting that "for the first time we can also present a website with a special emphasis on news and relevant, current information."

The website features so-called "Open Data Protocol," which is expected to offer immediate access to pending bills in various voting stages, as well as relevant data on Knesset members' voting records.

"A vast amount of information flows from the Knesset, about committee activities, plenum activities and legislative processes. All of this information is available to all of Israel within minutes on the Knesset website," Landau boasted.

The new site is currently only in Hebrew, but mirror pages in Arabic, English and Russian -- as on the old site -- are under construction, according to Landau.