For those who, naively, I hasten to say, hoped that Israeli voters would deliver a clear-cut result at the ballot box, disappointment was inevitable. As has become customary, the electorate has delivered an inconclusive outcome, leaving politicians to cobble together a coalition government. Yet Israelis have left enough clues to indicate the direction in which they want their elected representatives to head. Since no single party in the country’s history has ever won an absolute majority of 61 o
