The Elections in Israel 2022

Gideon Rahat holds the Gersten Family Chair in Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. His research interests are the politics of re­form, democratic institutions, political parties, candidate and leadership selection and political per­sonalization. Noam Gidron is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and the Joint Program in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests focus on populism and polarization in Western democracies. Michal Shamir is a Professor Emerita of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on democratic politics, including elections, party systems, public opinion, tolerance, democratic culture, representation and democratic backsliding.

1. Introduction Part 1: Democracy Under Stress: Shadows and a Few Lights 2. Political Polarization in Israel, 1992–2022 3. Ideological Cleavages in Israeli Public Opinion in the 2022 Elections 4. For Whom the Polls Toll? Voter Turnout in the 2022 Elections 5. Silencing Civil Society during Elections (?): The V15 Law in Action 6. The Most Radical Government in Israel's History: Did the Public Really Want This? 7. The Elections in Israel Book Series as a Test Case: Does the Research Reflect the Personalization of Israeli Politics or Does It Adhere to the Party Politics Paradigm? Part 2: Parties: Those that Decline and Those that Ascend 8. From 44 to 4: The Electoral Decline of the Israeli Labor Party, 1992-2022 9. A Partisan Sub-system in Continuous Dealignment: Religious Zionism and its Political Parties in the 2022 Elections 10. From Bennett to Ben-Gvir: Religious Zionist Political Behavior in the 2019-2022 Elections 11. From Spiritual Shepherd to Political Regent: Shas Under the Leadership of Aryeh Deri, 2013-2022 12. Does the Increase in United Torah Judaism’s Electoral Strength Correspond to Haredi Population Growth?