ANALYSIS

Director of BICOM’s Israel office Richard Pater assesses the options for choosing coalition partners and assigning portfolios that will face Benjamin Netanayahu, assuming he is asked to form the next government.

David Horovitz, founder and editor of the Times of Israel and a leading commentator on Israeli affairs, briefed journalists on a BICOM conference call, giving his assessment of the trends in the Israeli electorate and the prospects for the next Israeli coalition.

BICOM Senior Research Fellow Prof. Alan Johnson and Director of Research Dr. Toby Greene assess the unusual role played the socio-economic agenda in the current Israeli election campaign, and look at where the parties stand on the issues.