2015 Israeli Knesset Election Resources for Press & Public
The Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) retains a repository of online, election-related information to help the press and public research and understand Israel's upcoming parliamentary elections.
Recommendations for Reform
- A Plan for Combating Government Corruption: Recommendations for Policy Makers - Elections 2015
- How to Prevent the Recurrence of Early Knesset Elections by Yohanan Plesner
- 23 Knesset Seats Is No Victory by Yehoshua Oz
Knesset Statistics and Election Processes
- How Often Elections Are Called in Israel and Around the World by Dr. Ofer Kenig
- The Electoral Threshold, Wasted Votes, and Proportionality by Dr. Ofer Kenig
- How the Knesset is Dissolved and How New Governments are Formed by Dr. Dana Blander
- The Firing of Ministers in Israel: A Historical Overview by Dr. Ofer Kenig
- Israeli Elections Explained [Audio] by Yohanan Plesner
Commentary on the Elections
- Disqualifying Zoabi: Bad for Security and Bad for Democracy by Ami Ayalon
- Democracy: The Key Election Issue by Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer
Election Events
- IDI and Israeli Police Leadership Meet to Ensure Clean Elections
- Public Meeting: How to Combat Political Corruption in Israel
- How Will the 20th Knesset Treat Israeli Democracy?
Polling
- December 2014 Peace Index (conducted 29-31.12.2014) - measures intention to vote, reasons for not voting, whether voters have made up their minds, which issues are most important to voters, who is likely to and who voters prefer form the next coalition, voters' opinion of the position of the political parties on the foreign policy / security axis, whether the next government will be able to move the peace process forward
- 2014 Israeli Democracy Index
International Media Coverage
IDI Experts
- Yohanan Plesner
President, Israel Democracy Institute
Expertise: Political Parties, Government, Political Reform - Prof. Gideon Rahat
Senior Fellow at IDI and Associate Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Expertise: Political Parties, Primaries, Elections, Voter Behavior, Electoral Systems, Electoral Reform, Government, Comparative Politics, Political Reforms - Dr. Ofer Kenig
Research Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute
Expertise: Political Parties, Elections, Voter Behavior, Electoral Systems, Government, Political Leaders, the Cabinet, Political Reforms - Prof. Tamar Hermann
Senior Fellow and Academic Director of IDI's Guttman Center for Surveys
Expertise: Israeli Public Opinion and Polling, Civil Society, Protest Movements - Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer
VP of Research, Israel Democracy Institute
Expertise: Political Corruption, Constitutional Law, the Supreme Court, Human Rights and Minorities - Prof. Yedidia Stern
VP of Research, Israel Democracy Institute
Expertise: Constitutional Law, the Supreme Court
To contact any of these experts, email Yehoshua Oz, IDI Director of International Relations, at press@idi.org.il.