Ofer Kenig

Dr. Ofer Kenig is a researcher in the Israel Democracy Institute’s Political Reform Program.

 CENTRAL ELECTIONS Committee workers count ballots at the Knesset, after November’s election. Vote-counting proceeds efficiently and reliably, and the public perceives the results as legitimate.

After the judicial reform, the electoral process is next - opinion

 THEN-PRIME Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz sit in the Knesset plenum, in 2020. ‘The ephemeral ministries concocted for the Netanyahu-Gantz government are infamous,’ says the writer

We need to limit the number of ministries, having too many is bad for us all - opinion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a coalition meeting

What happens if coalition talks fail? - explainer


Has the era of the primaries come to an end?

Democracy is at risk when the responsiveness between the public and its elected representatives is severed. Without accountability, political extremism and populism will become more prevalent.

Will there be primaries this year?

Representation of women in local government

2018 elections are a golden opportunity

Yael German, the former mayor of Herzliya, now serves as a member of Knesset for Yesh Atid

Status of women in Israeli politics: The good, the bad and the road to full equality

The impressive increase of women's representation in the Knesset has not translated into similar strides in other political spheres and senior executive positions.

Percentage of women in politics

America: Land of endless voting opportunities?

Individual states in the US are working to make voting more accessible.

Voting booths are seen during the New York primary elections at a polling station in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, US, April 19, 2016

The cabinet in (com)motion: One year since the formation of the fourth Netanyahu government

Within a year, nearly a third of the ministries were affected by some type of personnel and structural change. Five ministers left office for various reasons.

PM Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset

The electoral threshold: Why the rush?

When the electoral threshold was raised in the past, the adjustment was made carefully and gently, with an increase of half a percent at the most.

Knesset votes to dissolve itself 370