Interestingly, Islamists have only been successful in the two non-Arab Muslim countries in the region, Turkey and Iran, whose regimes at present don't appear in jeopardy of cracking.

Right-wing MK Bezalel Smotrich sees the Transportation Ministry as an opportunity to "implement a Zionist vision and values" by building roads to bring Jews to the Galilee and the farthest reaches of Judea and Samaria.

In letter to Habayit Hayehudi leader Rafi Peretz, Otzma Yehudit officials say they feel like they were "used and thrown out" after the April 9 election.

The economic vision for the Palestinians isn't new and won't work. The intended beneficiaries have already rejected numerous opportunities to get the state they claim they want.

Legal experts agree that the moment a Knesset dissolves itself, it loses any legislative authority to pass or cancel laws, regardless of any special majority.