The conditions before the current legislative period are still fresh in everyone’s memory. From 2019 onward, Israel slipped into a political deadlock that revolved less around content than around one person: Benjamin Netanyahu. At that time, Avigdor Lieberman and his party were already on the verge of enabling a right-wing coalition. In the end, however, he refused to cooperate.
This marked the beginning of an election crisis unlike any the country had experienced before. Between April 2019 and November 2022, elections were held five times. Not because the population constantly wanted to decide anew, but because the parties repeatedly failed to form stable majorities. Coalitions collapsed, interim governments followed one another—politically, Israel was going in circles.
The fact that the current legislative term is now coming to a regular end has a simple reason: the coalition formed in 2022 commands a clear majority. That is how parliamentary democracy works. A parliament is elected, the government it legitimizes has a majority and governs as long as that majority holds—even when there are protests, and even when political dispute...
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