The unity government wasn’t born yesterday, it has a long history in Israel. Tune in to this ongoing exploration of the evolution of Israel’s electoral system to learn about the government shared by ex-underground fighter Yitzhak Shamir of Likud and Shimon Peres of Labor through the 1980s, how it held together Mizrachi pride, religious tension and territorial confusion. A government that withdrew from Lebanon, tamed hyperinflation and faced the First Intifada before being brought down by the infamous “dirty trick.”