1st Edition
The Elections in Israel 2022
1. Introduction
Noam Gidron, Gideon Rahat and Michal Shamir
Part 1: Democracy Under Stress: Shadows and a Few Lights
2. Political Polarization in Israel, 1992–2022
Yair Amitai, Noam Gidron and Omer Yair
3. Ideological Cleavages in Israeli Public Opinion in the 2022 Elections
Yaniv Shapira, Liran Harsgor and Alon Yakter
4. For Whom the Polls Toll?: Voter Turnout in the 2022 Elections
Nir Atmor, Chen Friedberg and Liran Harsgor
5. Silencing Civil Society during Elections: The V15 Law in Action
Assaf Shapira and Guy Lurie
6. The Most Radical Government in Israel's History: Did the Public Really Want This?
Doron Navot, Salem Seh and Dani Filc
7. The Elections in Israel Book Series as a Test Case: Does the Research Reflect the Personalization of Israeli Politics or Does It Adhere to the Party Politics Paradigm?
Avital Friedman and Gideon Rahat
Part 2: Parties: Those that Decline and Those that Ascend
8. From 44 to 4: The Electoral Decline of the Israeli Labor Party, 1992-2022
Ofer Kenig and Gideon Rahat
9. A Partisan Sub-system in Continuous Dealignment: Religious Zionism and its Political Parties in the 2022 Elections
Menachem Lazar and Asher Cohen
10. From Bennett to Ben-Gvir: Religious Zionist Political Behavior in the 2019-2022 Elections
Michael Freedman and Nadav Shelef
11. From Spiritual Shepherd to Political Regent: Shas Under the Leadership of Aryeh Deri, 2013-2022
Nissim Leon
12. Does the Increase in United Torah Judaism’s Electoral Strength Correspond to Haredi Population Growth?
Gilad Malach
Biography
Gideon Rahat holds the Gersten Family Chair in Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. His research interests are the politics of reform, democratic institutions, political parties, candidate and leadership selection and political personalization.
Noam Gidron is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and the Joint Program in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests focus on populism and polarization in Western democracies.
Michal Shamir is a Professor Emerita of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on democratic politics, including elections, party systems, public opinion, tolerance, democratic culture, representation and democratic backsliding.
