MOSAIC
How Israel’s Electoral System Brings the Country’s Fringes Into Its Center
by Evelyn Gordon
April 9, 2019

Like Haviv Rettig Gur in “How and Why Israelis Vote,” I, too, think the advantages of Israel’s parliamentary system outweigh its disadvantages, and for essentially the same reason: because it keeps a great many people in the political system who would otherwise remain outside it. Critics of the system’s plethora of small parties—as Gur notes, no fewer than 43 parties have been vying for Knesset seats in this year’s election—maintain that it should be streamlined and redesigned so that only big parties would be able to enter the Knesset…What, then, might be done to further the mainstreaming of both haredi and Arab voters?…READ MORE