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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -On Nov. 1 Israel holds an unprecedented fifth election in less than four years with former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu vying for a comeback. Caught in an election cycle since 2019, the same year in which Netanyahu was indicted for corruption on charges he denies, voters hope to break the deadlock between the most dominant politician of his generation and his many rivals. WILL NETANYAHU WIN? Unclear. Surveys show no sweeping victory for Netanyahu or for his main rival, centrist Prime Minister Yair Lapid. Netanyahu…
“But that has not stopped former military chief Gantz, 63, from proclaiming himself the only candidate who can break the Netanyahu deadlock by forming new alliances and heading a broad government that will extract Israel from four years of unprecedented constitutional crisis.”
Israel has no written constitution.
Good point Clayton — one thing to keep in mind is that sometimes scholars refer to a country’s system of government, enshrined in law, as its “constitution,” even if it is not centered in one document labeled “constitution.”
In the case of Israel, the “Basic Laws” are often considered to make up the country’s informal constitution. The first basic law outlines the functions of the Knesset, for example. So a crisis in the functioning of the Knesset could be loosely termed “constitutional” in nature.
The UK is in a similar situation with no official constitution, but rather a series of documents such as the Magna Carta that collectively constitute the accepted political system.