[Joint List MK: We’ll vote in favor of dissolving the Knesset]
T. Belman. New elections look like a done deal, but I can’t believe the strength of Yamina.
Yamina wins eight seats and Ra’am does not pass the electoral threshold. The Likud has 36 seats.
Bezalel SmotrichYonatan Sindel/Flash 90
A Channel 13 News poll conducted by Prof. Camil Fuchs and published on Monday finds that Mansour Abbas’ Ra’am party would not pass the electoral threshold if elections were to be held today.
In contrast, after several consecutive polls in which it failed to pass the electoral threshold, Gideon Saar’s New Hope passes it and wins four seats.
The Likud and Benjamin Netanyahu continue to lead the way with 36 seats. Yesh Atid is the second largest party with 18 seats. Another surprise is in the form of Bezalel Smotrich and the Religious Zionism Party, which wins nine seats and is the third largest party in the poll.
The ruling Yamina Party, led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, wins eight seats, followed by Blue and White, Shas and United Torah Judaism with 7 seats each.
The predominantly Arab Joint List Party wins eight seats, the Labor Party has six seats, and Yisrael Beytenu and Meretz each win five seats.
In terms of blocs, the parties that make up the current coalition have 53 seats compared to 59 seats for the opposition parties in the current Knesset. The Joint List with its eight seats is in the middle.
On the question of suitability for Prime Minister, the majority continues to vote for Benjamin Netanyahu as the most suitable candidate for Prime Minister and he receives 46 percent support in the poll. He is followed by Yair Lapid with 15 percent, and Bennett with only 9 percent, the same number as Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
On the question of whether the public thinks the government is handling the wave of terrorism well or not, the answer was clear. 66 percent think the government is not handling the wave of terrorism well, compared to only 24 percent who thought it is being handled well.
Participants in the poll were asked whether or not Ra’am’s membership in the coalition affects the government’s security policy and if so in which direction? Half of the respondents answered that the presence of Ra’am in the coalition adversely affects security policy, compared with only 8 percent who answered that it has a positive effect. 27 percent think that it does not affect security policy.
@Sebastien
Very well stated.
You are quite correct. They determine the extent of their own authority based upon nothing more substantial than their own judgement. It is a great tragedy that they have been allowed to become so empowered, forming an unelected authority to monitor and correct the choices of the elected govt based on their own definition of reasonableness. It was hoped that judicial reform would be among the issues tackled by a Right Wing govt after the huge Right Wing faction that was elected last year, only they sadly never formed a Right Wing govt. Just another reason to lament this current govt which can not fall fast enough.
@Sheb Every attempt in the Knesset to rein in the power of the leftist Supreme Court has failed. I remember a third attempt I couldn’t find an article about that Lapid derailed. Apparently this judicial revolution goes back to Aharon Barak. US justice Ginsburg, who left money to the Israelophobic New Israel Fund, praised the unlimited power Israeli judges have.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-top-court-rules-it-can-override-a-basic-law-as-knesset-speaker-decries-coup-1.9836685
https://www.timesofisrael.com/checking-supreme-courts-powers-bennett-looks-to-rebalance-israeli-democracy/
“Following his retirement from the Supreme Court, the new President of the Court, Judge Dorit Beinisch, said at his farewell ceremony:
At the heart of the development of the law of Israel stands Aharon Barak. He opened new horizons. The law as it stands after his [Presidency] differs in its purpose from the era which preceded him. Since his first year in the Supreme Court his rulings were groundbreaking, since ’78 and until today he set the central legal norms that this court granted Israeli society.
On the issue of the substantial expansion of the right of standing and the test of reasonableness of an administrative decision (which grants the courts the power to overrule an administrative decision if the judge is convinced that it does not “stand [within the] bounds of reasonableness”), Amnon Rubinstein wrote:
Thus a situation has arisen whereby the Supreme Court may convene and decide on every conceivable issue. In addition to that the unreasonableness of an administrative decision will be grounds for judicial intervention. This was a total revolution in the judicial thinking which characterized the Supreme Court of previous generations, and this has given it the reputation of the most activist court in the world, causing both admiration and criticism. In practice, in many respects the Supreme Court under Barak has become an alternate government….Following his retirement from the Supreme Court, the new President of the Court, Judge Dorit Beinisch, said at his farewell ceremony:
At the heart of the development of the law of Israel stands Aharon Barak. He opened new horizons. The law as it stands after his [Presidency] differs in its purpose from the era which preceded him. Since his first year in the Supreme Court his rulings were groundbreaking, since ’78 and until today he set the central legal norms that this court granted Israeli society.
On the issue of the substantial expansion of the right of standing and the test of reasonableness of an administrative decision (which grants the courts the power to overrule an administrative decision if the judge is convinced that it does not “stand [within the] bounds of reasonableness”), Amnon Rubinstein wrote:
Thus a situation has arisen whereby the Supreme Court may convene and decide on every conceivable issue. In addition to that the unreasonableness of an administrative decision will be grounds for judicial intervention. This was a total revolution in the judicial thinking which characterized the Supreme Court of previous generations, and this has given it the reputation of the most activist court in the world, causing both admiration and criticism. In practice, in many respects the Supreme Court under Barak has become an alternate government….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharon_Barak
@Sheb There is already something like that, which was passed to remove Kahane, but the Court doesn’t enforce it against Arabs. What can be done when the Supreme Court foesn’t feel bound hy 5he law?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/supreme-court-nixes-disqualification-of-arab-labor-candidate-ibtisam-maraana/
A distinction without a difference. Nothing has changed, according to this poll..
– Above article
Netanyahu said the Right bloc polled well above 61. Is there another poll or was that just hyperbole?
Polls never lie, right Look at the 2016 election in the US when MSM polls accurately picked former President Hillary Clinton as rthe winner, right?
Israel needs a Constitution and swearing fealty to it should be a precondition of holding office. This would fix the problem of the large, disloyal political party constantly preventing a governing majority from being formed.
@TED-
Apparently 50 Wakf Police for the Temple Mount, to kick off any any Jews who “dare” to profane it’s holy Muslim sanctity.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/coalition-fends-off-no-confidence-challenges-as-knesset-gets-back-to-work/
What was given to the Joint List to get them to support the government?
Who would vote for New Hope and Yamina? This is insanity.