166 shares Ballot boxes at the Central Election Committee to be sent to polling stations ahead of election day, March 6, 2019. (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel) As the Knesset dissolved Tuesday night, triggering a fourth round of elections in two years, the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) research center said Wednesday that it appears the Jewish state is now the liberal parliamentary democracy that has held the most national votes in the world since 1996. The March 23, 2021, vote will be Israel’s 11th Knesset election since the May 1996 vote in which Benjamin Netanyahu became prime minister for the first time. That means the country has since had an average of less than 2.3 years between elections.