Observation
January 16, 2020
Podcast: Neil Rogachevsky on the Roots of Israel’s Political Crisis and How to Fix It
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Neil RogachevskyAs the nation gears up for its third election in a year, the time may have come to consider a different way of voting.
This Week’s Guest: Neil Rogachevsky
Israel’s electoral politics are a mess. One election last April failed to produce a governing coalition; so did a second one in the fall. Now Israelis are scheduled to head back to the polls in March for the third time in a single year. Israel has faced many problems in its short history, but this kind of political crisis is a first.
And yet its seeds may have been planted at the founding of the state.