Israeli Legislative Elections

Download or read book Israeli Legislative Elections written by Source Wikipedia and published by Booksllc.Net. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Israeli general election, 1996, Israeli general election, 1999, Israeli legislative election, 1949, Israeli legislative election, 1951, Israeli legislative election, 1955, Israeli legislative election, 1959, Israeli legislative election, 1961, Israeli legislative election, 1965, Israeli legislative election, 1969, Israeli legislative election, 1973, Israeli legislative election, 1977, Israeli legislative election, 1981, Israeli legislative election, 1984, Israeli legislative election, 1988, Israeli legislative election, 1992, Israeli legislative election, 2003, Israeli legislative election, 2006, Israeli legislative election, 2009, Next Israeli legislative election. Excerpt: Early parliamentary elections will be held in Israel on 22 January 2013 to elect the 19th Knesset. Originally, public debate over the Tal Law nearly led to an early election in 2012, but this was aborted at the last moment after Kadima briefly joined the government. The elections were later called in early October 2012 after failure to agree on the budget for 2013. Following the 2009 Israeli legislative election, in which the camp consisting of both the right wing parties and the religious parties won the majority of the seats (65 seats in total), opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu established a relatively broad-based government that included both right-wing parties (Likud and Israel Beiteinu), Haredi and religious parties (Shas, United Torah Judaism and The Jewish Home) and the Labor Party from the political left. Although there were many divisions between the coalition parties on issues of National security and the peace process, Separation of church and state, politics and democracy, the Netanyahu government was relatively stable and was able to overcome various political and national security related crises with no real threat from the...