es will have to canvass and make themselves known to their constituents in order to enter the contest for the Knesset (or council) seat.

64:{"position":7,"content":"$65"} 66:{"position":8,"content":"In order to successfully make PR operational, the country would have to be zoned into 60 constituencies, each containing approximately the same number of voters. This zoning would need to be carried out by an independent committee under judicial review. In all likelihood, it would take a very long time before the zoning is complete and no doubt that in the meantime, sitting Knesset members and party hacks who prefer the more undemocratic status quo would do their utmost to thwart the changes."} 67:{"position":9,"content":"A PR system will thus require tremendous amounts of political clout to get off the ground. Therefore, my final suggestion is that a political party be set up with the sole object of changing the electoral system for both local and general elections. (It would obviously need to be a temporary party, because once the system is operational it will lose its raison d’être.)"} 68:{"position":10,"content":"Only then can we hope to make Israel’s electoral system a fairer, more democratic one."} 69:{"position":11,"content":"
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Democracy and Personal Representation

Can Israel alter its political system to a more representative form of democracy?