Day after day for a week and counting, Israel’s elected leadership has been running around in headless chicken mode, plunged into crisis over whether the Knesset is going to dissolve itself a year and a half early and subject the nation to new elections.

Rather than, say, running the country, the men and women chosen by the electorate to take care of our national interests have instead been posturing, and pontificating, and positioning themselves to try to ensure that, when the music stops, they’ll retain those comfy chairs they have in the Knesset.

Depending on their particular assessments of what their voters want from them, our politicians have depicted the crisis as revolving around everything from how many ultra-Orthodox men perform army service to the future of Israeli democracy.

Read the full story at Times of Israel.