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TJS S6E3 Electoral Dysfunction part II

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…

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TJS S5E9 The Upheaval Election of Menachem Begin in 1977

There are few events in the history of Israel’s democracy which have had a greater impact than the elections of 1977. When all the votes were counted three decades of Labor Zionist rule had come to an end and Menachem Begin and his Likud party was victorious. It is known in Israeli history as ‘the…

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