The latest trial balloon launched this week by Shas party chairman Arye Dery was another attempt to circumvent the law for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s electoral benefit. This time, he submitted a bill to allow a one-time-only direct election of the prime minister. Netanyahu and his gang have thereby reached a new nadir of political trickery. At the height of efforts to form a new government and before all possibilities of doing so have been exhausted, they have submitted a special elections bill in an effort to arrange conditions under which Netanyahu could finally win after having fai