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Israel tried (in 1996, 1999, and 2001) to separate the election for prime minister (PM) and members of Knesset, but the politicians got scared and canceled the idea.
Let the people decide? That’s not a politician’s way.
The same politician who today seems to call to separate the voting also is the politician who, before becoming prime minister, promoted term limits for that post.
Flip and flop.
According to the World Israel News,
“Netanyahu called for direct elections for prime minister and blamed Naftali Bennett of the Yemina party for preventing it.”
Bennett is perhaps the Number One contender from the political right to be PM.
Netanyahu is facing a fifth plebiscite if he is once again unable to form a government.
In Israel, with more than 15 squabbling political parties, including far left, far right, religious, and anti-Israel (Ra’am, mostly), forming a coalition of 62 agreeing Knesset members is difficult; lately it has been impossible.
Electing a PM on his — or her — own would not quiet the political warfare, but it would mean the PM is secure — for the duration.
Currently, the PM usually is head of the political party garnering the most votes. For many years the leftist held control of the position, but since Menachem Begin, Israel's 6th PM, led the old Likud party to victory, the PM has been in right-wing hands. The Likud of Begin’s day is not the Likud of 2021. (Blogger’s opinion.)
England’s “gift”
Israel, fortunately or not, inherited many things from the English.
The political system of the tiny island off Europe’s coast is one of the legacies.
England, for all its problems, is not burdened by an over-abundance of political parties.
Plus it has a figurehead monarch that has more respect than Israel’s powerless president, usually a washed up politician with few political enemies.
The English PM almost always is from one of the two major parties on the island.
While if may be no better, the U.S. (usual) two-party system at least limits the number of candidates and members of each party sort out, via primary elections, who they want to represent them in the various levels of government. It does make voter fraud easier. This may change during the Harris administration when Washington intends to override state voting laws; a packed Supreme Court will uphold this attack on states rights. Again, blogger’s opinion.
Another U.S. idea that Israel could, but won’t, implement is a requirement that politicians reside in and represent a voting district. Again, this requirement is missing from the English model.
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