Leading social scientists from Israeli and American universities,
using different methods and representing diverse intellectual
traditions, address the precedent-setting events of Israel's 1996
elections. The contributors discuss the meaning of collective
identity, the role of religion and nationalism in modern Israel,
the political behavior of Israeli Arabs, the secrets of success of
the immigrant party. Also discussed are issues such as the impact
of the direct election law on party organization, primaries and
coalition-formation calculations, the repeated electoral failure of
Shimon Peres, and the role of the media in the election campaign.
The 1996 elections in Israel represented a "first" in Israeli
politics in many ways. For the first time Israelis directly elected
their prime minister and, in simultaneous but separate elections,
they elected their 120-member Knesset (parliament). Also, it was
first time that elections were held after the mutual recognition of
Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization following the Oslo
accords and it was the first election held after the assassination
of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rubin.
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