Benjamin Netanyahu and Yair Lapid. Photos: Miriam Alster/Flash90
ISRAEL “has been held back” by years of electoral paralysis, Zionist Federation of Australia president Jeremy Leibler said this week, as the country prepares for its fourth election in under two years.
Israelis go to the ballot box on Tuesday, March 23, with recent polling ambiguous as to the result.
After the last three elections produced two political deadlocks and then a coalition unable to work through its differences, Leibler expressed hope this election “will result in a governing coalition with a clear majority”.
“The threat from COVID hasn’t gone away, and the economic rehabilitation from the pandemic is only just beginning,” he said.