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Israel Political Arena

Israel Political Arena. From Dominant party, thru dual center to the current instability. Election and the legislative branch. The entire country is one electoral district. The election is for the Knesset - the House of Representatives.

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Israel Political Arena

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  1. Israel Political Arena From Dominant party, thru dual center to the current instability

  2. Election and the legislative branch • The entire country is one electoral district. • The election is for the Knesset - the House of Representatives. • A party that wins more than 2% of the votes (the qualifying threshold) is represented. • Proportional representation: the number of seats which every list receives in the Knesset is proportional to the number of voters who voted for it. • The result is multiplicity of parties which represent, in some cases, small groups of interest.

  3. The System – The executive branch • The head of the biggest party (usually) is appointed by the president as prime minister. • The biggest party forms a coalition to have majority • The policy of the government is a compromise between different parties which formed the coalition. • The prime minister depends on every member of the coalition. • The system suffers from instability. 5 elections in 10 years.

  4. Mapai as the Dominant Party 1948-1977 Potential partners for coalition Communists Ben Gurion: “Without Herut and whitout Maki” Non Partners

  5. Election results 1949-2006

  6. Dual System 1977-2001 The main dispute: The future of the territories

  7. Prime Ministers 1948-2006 • David Ben Gurion (Mapai) – 1948 – 1953. • Moshe Sharet (Mapai) – 1954-1955. • David Ben Gurion (Mapai) -1955-1963. • Levi Eshkol (Mapai - renamed Labor)– 1963-1969. • Golda Meir (Labor) – 1969-1974. • Yitzhak Rabin (Labor) – 1974-1977. • Menachem Begin (Likud) – 1977-1983 – The Upheaval • Shimon Peres (Labor) – 1984-1986 • Yitzhak Shamir (Likud)– 1983-1984 (After Begin resignation); 1986-1992. • Yitzhak Rabin (Labor) - 1992-1995 (Assassinated by a right-wing radical and was replaced by Peres for Seven months). • Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud) – 1996-1999 (Direct election for PM). • Ehud Barak (Labor) – 1999-2001 (Direct election for PM). • Ariel Sharon (Likud)- 2001-2006 (Direct election in 2001 and by the Knesset in 2003) • Ehud Olmert (Kadima) - 2006

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