Just don't ask only 'who will lead'
Our parliamentary democracy is undergoing a dangerous process of 'presidentialization'. We are conducting a personality cult around one leader, and forgetting that on the day after the elections, that leader will not be able to…
Assessment
The piece warns that Israeli parliamentary democracy is drifting toward a presidential-style cult of personality, where public discourse fixates on who will lead rather than how governance will function. The core concern is that this focus on a single figure obscures the reality that no leader can run a country alone after an election. Readers should watch whether campaign debates shift from personality to coalition-building and institutional checks.