The State of Israel would appear to have a vacancy at the very top.

Seven weeks after we held elections and chose our 120 members of parliament, none of those 120 appears capable of winning the support of a majority of his or her colleagues to actually run the country.

Yes, 65 of them, in the immediate aftermath of the vote, recommended to President Reuven Rivlin that our hyper-talented, long-proven, acutely controversial incumbent, Benjamin Netanyahu, be charged with the task of assembling another government. But seven weeks after we citizens dutifully placed our voting slips in those little blue envelopes — with the global spotlight having long since moved on and most folks worldwide having doubtless assumed that Netanyahu was safely re-ensconced in power — he has failed to cobble together the various bickering factions whose support he needs. And his loyalists have been reduced to imploring various MKs from parties that emphatically do not want to join him to nonetheless defect, and help Netanyahu secure a majority with evidently insufficiently attractive promises of high ministerial office should they cross party lines.

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