ABSTRACT
Several dramatic events preceded the elections to the Seventeenth Knesset on March 28, 2006, beginning with the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in August 2005 and its attendant and unprecedented removal of Jewish settlements and settlers, followed by major shifts among and within the various political parties. Most dramatic was the split in Likud when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided to form a new party, Kadima, leading to the breakup of the Likud party that Sharon had formed in 1973. This volume charts the 2006 elections.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part 1: Voting Behavior
part |2 pages
Part 2: Parties and Groups
part |2 pages
Part 3: The Politics of the Elections
part |2 pages
Part 4: Political Communication