There is indeed a blocking majority: Its last name is “television” and its first name is “Channel 2.” Television personalities head the three biggest parties, which together have 65 Knesset members. Yair Lapid and Shelly Yacimovich, both of whom began in print journalism but jumped into the political arena from Channel 2, are not alone in owing their political standing to television, a medium that favors form...
To entertain versus to govern
Television personalities head the three biggest parties in Israel today, which together have 65 Knesset members.
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