Professionalism
Israel desperately needs professionalism. Needed is a presidential system that relegates to the dust heap the system of multiparty cabinet government that enabled the Kadima-led...
Category : Cabinet/Executive
Poli. Sci. 101 for MK Yitzhak Levy
Knesset Member Yitzhak Levy wants to raise the number of Knesset members from 120 to 150. As reported in The Jerusalem Post last week (June...
Eureka!—Enlarged
Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please. Professor Yehezkel Dror, a member of the Winograd Committee as well as a world-renowned Israel Prize Laureate in public...
The 30-Year Olmert Government
Edited transcript of the Eidelberg Report, Israel National Radio, November 26, 2007. Since the Camp David Summit of 1978, Israel has had no less than...
A Political Dictionary for Israelis and Immigrants: Part I
A. Democracy: Two Types “Normative” or classical democracy: based on the idea of man’s creation in the holy image of God. This provides democracy’s basic...
How Some Nations Empower Their People: Israel Disenfranchises Them—Part II
As indicated in Part I, members of Israel’s Knesset are not individually elected by or accountable to the people in constituency elections. This enables Knesset...
Proclamation & Petition: Sharon Must Resign
Fellow Citizens and Friends of Israel! The Land and People of Israel are in great danger. We, who experienced Soviet totalitarianism, and took part in...
Kings, Presidents, and Israel’s Prime Minister
The Hebrew term for king, melech, primarily implies a chief “counselor,” a president whose intellectual and moral qualities warrant his elevation and authority. What follows...
10 Short Position Papers – VII
VII – Refuting Arguments Against Presidential Government Professor Paul Eidelberg Various arguments are made against presidential vis-a-vis parliamentary government. Some political scientists contend that, given...