From the media and the municipalities: the new face in Knesset lists

Fewer chiefs of staff, many more with municipal experience: There are 46 days left until the 2021 elections, but after the submission of the lists, it is already possible to outline (very) what the 24th Knesset will look like, and who will be the new face in it.

After the 2019 A elections, a record number of 49 new Knesset members were recorded, about half of them with a newly painted white brush. After the second election campaign that year, only eight new MKs have been elected and following the 2020 elections, the number has reached a low of only three new MKs – one from a white brush and two from the joint list.

This time, following the crash of blue and white and the establishment of a new hope, we no longer see such low numbers of new faces as after the two previous elections. On the other hand, only a dramatic change in relation to the polls of recent weeks will lead to the peak of 49 new members of the Knesset being in jeopardy.

According to recent polls, 22 new MKs will enter the 24th Knesset, and another six who served in previous Knessets – former Minister Benny Begin (moved from the Likud to a new hope) Merav Ben-Ari (we all have a future), Amar Bar-Lev and Nachman Shai (remained at work), Edith Silman (right) and Jamaa Azberga (joint list) The number of MKs to be elected is expected to be relatively similar to the record number at the beginning of the previous Knesset – 30 women, still only a quarter of the plenum.

If the polls do indeed faithfully reflect what will happen on March 23, then most of the new MKs will come from three parties – a new hope (As expected), and also to the right and the Labor Party. In Gideon Saar’s party, almost the entire top of the list consists of those with parliamentary experience (usually in the Likud), but in real places there is also an incumbent mayor (Meir Yitzhak Halevi From Eilat), Deputy Mayor (Michelle Busquila From Ashkelon) and council members (Ofer Berkowitz, Who previously ran for mayor of Jerusalem, andCrescent Pinto Gender).

right Ran this time without the National Union (and in fact also without the Jewish House, whose statement of support was given after the list was submitted), but most polls give a double-digit (low) number of seats to Naftali Bennett’s party. Yitzhak Halevi from Eilat will be joined in the Knesset by another southern mayor, Alon Davidi From Sderot, which also moved from the Likud – but to the right. also Amichai Shikli, Founder of the pre-military state “Tavor”, Nir Orbach (CEO of the Jewish House who lost to Hagit Moshe in the primaries) and founder of “The Shulmanim” Knight Kara On the way to the Knesset.

Shirley Pinto, 31, who was one of the founders of the Israeli Center for the Study of Deafness, was placed in ninth place and if elected will be the first deaf in the Knesset – and probably also the youngest MK. Shai Maimon (10 on the list) A high-tech man who was seriously injured in a terrorist attack in which his friend Malachi Rosenfeld was killed and whose grandfather is the mythological Minister of Religions Zerach Verhaftig; Good day live Kalfon (11) who previously immigrated as a lone soldier from France; Stella Weinstein (12) a member of the Ashdod Council and owner of a network of gyms; andRonny Sassover (13), wife of entertainer Gil Sassover.

Deputy Prime Minister Bnei Gantz has seen almost all of his party’s leadership abandonment to other districts, and if he neither retires nor passes the blocking percentage – only a miracle in the form of nine seats toBlue and white A new MK will be added from the list: Col. Res. Mofid MaraiIn any case, the new Knesset will have at most one chief of staff, unlike three in the previous one – after the retirement of Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi and Tel Aviv chairman Moshe (Boogie) Ya’alon.

BTorah Judaism Although Moshe Gafni replaced Yaakov Litzman as the leader of the list, there is no new face in realistic places. BShas The only person without the title of Knesset member or former Knesset member in the top ten is number 5 Haim Bitton, CEO of Shas and member of the Migdal Haemek Council.

There is a future He ran alone after three consecutive elections, and the first 15 on the list were already in the Knesset. Number 16 Ron Katz, Acting Mayor of Petah Tikva, may make the leap from municipal politics to national. There is a lower chance of making a similar leap.Tanya Mazarski (18, mm Mayor of Karmiel) andJasmine Friedman (19, council member in Be’er Sheva). Col. Res. Nira Shefek From the village of Gaza, it was placed in 17th place.

Just a strengthening of Israel is our Home In relation to the current polls, it will put the number 8 on the list in the Knesset Yossi Shein, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, and No. 9, Legal Adviser Limor Magen-Telem, Who in 1988 was elected Deputy Beauty Queen. BMarch The only new face is number 4 Jida Rinawi-Zoabi, Director of the Injaz Center for the Promotion of Local Government in Arab Society.

The common list, Which, following the separation from Mansour Abbas’ ISIS, is no longer really common, does not include a new face among the first dozen candidates. Thunder Itself, which it is not clear if it will pass the blocking percentage, presents the Balance of scoundrels, Former chairman of Bnei Sakhnin and mayor of Sakhnin, in second place. If you get four or five seats, he will be the only new member in the plenum.

Another party that is not clear whether it will get the more than 3.25% of the votes needed to enter the Knesset is Religious Zionism Led by Bezalel Smutrich. If she does overcome the obstacle, they will reach the Knesset on behalf of the National Union Michal Waldiger Chairman of the Bat Ami Association andJoy Rotman One of the founders of the Movement for Governance and Democracy – and for the first time also Chairman of Jewish Power, far-right activist Itamar Ben Gvir, Who has faced many times in the past but remains out. The chances of number 6, chairman of “Noam” Avi Maoz, Look faint.

Of the 39 lists whose representatives came to the Election Commission in the previous two days, the 14th and last list with a certain chance of passing the blocking percentage is “The new economic“By Prof. Yaron Zelicha. According to most polls, she will stay out, but if she is surprised and passes, four professors who did not previously serve as MKs will come to the Knesset – Zelicha himself (the former Accountant General) Osnat Akirav, Facilitator of “Soul Talk” Prof. Yoram Yuval And also Prof. Elian Alkrinawi, Former president of Achva College.

As mentioned, if the right gets at least nine seats, Shirley Pinto will probably be the youngest of the 120 Knesset members. The old member of the Knesset, a position that currently has no meaning in the law, is expected to be Benny Begin Matikva, 78 years old in a month – who was already the oldest of the MKs in the 20th Knesset.

Prof. Ofer Koenig, a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, examined and found that only 25 of the 120 MKs elected in the 2009 election survived and are expected to be elected this time as well. In fact, within 12 years, 95 MKs “disappeared from the political map.”

In some parties the phenomenon is particularly noticeable: in the Labor Party, not even one of the 13 MKs elected on its behalf will serve in the next Knesset. None of Hadash, Balad and Ra’am representatives survived, and of the 15 representatives who represented Yisrael Beiteinu Only three.

Following the retirement of Amir Peretz’s political life, only three MKs elected to the Knesset in the 1988 elections remain: Prime Minister Netanyahu, Minister Tzachi Hanegbi and Finance Committee Chairman Moshe Gafni. They are expected to be joined by Begin, the son of the sixth prime minister. Interior Minister Aryeh Deri was elected in 1992, while Health Minister Yuli Edelstein and Deputy Education Minister Meir Porush in 1996.

These data, said the Israel Democracy Institute, reflect a very high turnover rate. According to Prof. Koenig, the phenomenon has positive and negative aspects. “On the one hand, a robust political system should be refreshed with high motivation, new ideas and a low threshold of attrition. But when we go to an abnormal level of turnover – it can also be a symptom of a ‘sick’ system. Parliamentary work is a complex matter without continuity and accumulation of seniority. High may harm the work of the Knesset. “