By Michal Shamir

The elections for Israel’s 19th Knesset have been hung on January 22, 2013. This quantity bargains an in-depth research of Israel’s 2013 elections from quite a few views. It provides an updated photo of the complexity of Israeli democracy, and its demanding situations, achievements, and failures.

The chapters during this assortment make clear diversified elements of Israeli democracy. Yaron Ezrahi offers a skeptical standpoint on clients for democracy. Gayil Talshir explains the occasion system’s slowness to reply to citizen calls for and to social pursuits. Michal Shamir and Keren Weinshall-Margel discover the politics of the precise to be elected to the Knesset. Nir Atmor and Chen Friedberg spotlight the decline in participation in Knesset elections within the outer edge as opposed to the heart. Assaf Shapira and Gideon Rahat exhibit the complexity of inter-party democracy. Dganit Ofek analyzes the soundness of presidency coalitions. Gal Levy examines Mizrahi Jews and the Shas occasion. Mtanes Shihadeh discusses the vote casting styles of Israeli Arabs. Asher Cohen makes a speciality of spiritual Zionism and the luck of the renewed Jewish domestic get together. Michal Shamir and Einat Gedalya-Lavy rfile a gender hole in voting.

Elections in Israel 2013 analyzes the give-and-take among the general public and its leaders that's on the center of elections. In doing so, it illuminates the position of elections in delivering illustration for various teams in Israeli society and in giving voice to their political choices.

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The common pain undermines the high walls that emerged in Israeli society and overrides its glory. No more Jews against Arabs; secular against religious; leftists against right-wingers. The high costs of living hurts us all. —Speech by Itzik Shmuli, 2011b 34 The Elections in Israel 2013 In this speech Itzik Shmuli, then the head of the students’ union and today an MK of Labor, condemns the walls between Jews and Arabs, secular and religious, left and right—hoping to transcend them by creating one unified Israeli identity.

The protest embodied the call for a kind of politics that is different from the politics practiced in the corridors of power, behind closed doors, at the top level of government bureaucracy, without public accessibility, let alone participation. It was a struggle about Israeli democracy: “We saw how the struggle over education, housing and health 36 The Elections in Israel 2013 becomes a struggle for democracy” (Halutz 2012), argued Shafir, a leader of the protest and today the youngest MK. The protest was branded in the media as a struggle to lower the cost of living, but, in contradistinction to Shenhav (2013), the antidemocratic legislation wave of the former government was on the mind of the leadership of the protest (Schechter 2012, 32).

The New Israelis” 45 The Identity Axis: Between Particularistic Jewishness and Universal or Republican Israeliness Whereas the former axes, security and economics, are prevalent dimensions of Israeli politics, the third one, identity politics, differs both from the state/religion axis (between secularism and ultra-Orthodoxy) and from tribal identities (which divide Israelis into primordial groups) (Kimerling 1999). In 2013, for the first time, Israeliness appears as a major issue that challenges “tribal” identities and parties.

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