by Hillel Fendel, based on articles by Nitzan Kedar and Ze'ev Kam in B'sheva
The national elections for Knesset and (indirectly for) Prime Minister of Israel are only two weeks away – and we may actually assume with some basis that this one will be the last one for about four years. If this in fact happens, this would be quite an accomplishment, as the current campaign is the fourth in two years – practically unheard of in the history of Western democracies.
On what is based the assumption that this election might actually produce a stable government coalition? Well, there are two possibilities: Either Netanyahu's Likud, together with Smotrich's Religious-Zionism party, the hareidi parties, and Bennett's Yemina party, can form a narrow government of 61 MKs - or they cannot. If the former, the game is over and the anti-Bibi-ites will have lost again.
