Will Israel finally get a stable government?

Since 2003, whenever governments in Israel are formed, the coalition negotiations have taken place at Ramat Gan’s Kfar Hamaccabiah Hotel.

 

Delegations from the parties make statements to the press with great fanfare upon entering the negotiating room, and again when they depart.

 

Journalists would wait there for hours, hoping for headlines.

 

Sometimes, the real news was actually happening elsewhere. For instance in 2003, though coalition teams from the National Religious Party and Shinui came to Kfar Hamaccabiah, their leaders actually negotiated a deal at the home of Ehud Olmert, who had just left his job as Jerusalem mayor to return to national politics.

 

This time, there was no facade of facilitating the work of the press, and no apparent attempt to trick the media. Journalists were for the most part just ignored.

 

The talks took place at the Knesset, just down the hall from the reporters’ offices. But there was not much point in coming to the building.

 

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