Yesterday was National Israeli Elections. To celebrate I went and voted. And by voted, I mean watched my madrich vote. Since I am not a citzen here.

You think politics in the US is crazy? You haven't anything.
The Israeli Government works like the Parliament of England. Anyone can have a political party here. The Knesset (Israel's Parliament) is composed of 120 seats. The more votes a party gets, the more seats it gets. In order to form a government a group of 61 or more seats needs to be formed. Now, obviously, no one party ever gets all the required seats. As a result parties must join together to form a "coalition". At the point of having 61 or more seats, the coalition will then make a government. Here is how the elections went:

For the last couple of months, in particular the last couple weeks, parties have been putting ridiculous propaganda all over the country. Some of it is just ridiculous.

This is a spoff off of ObamaGirl in support of Tzipi Livni.

This is a prime example of how silly politics here can be. Likud, the party opposing Livni's, took her video and put the head of Nasralla on LiviniBoy.

I thought I would take my own spin on the ridiculousness. I went to google and found some pictures of party leaders.

With the Likud party: Bibi Netanyahu

Israel Beitanu: Avigdor Lieberman

Avodah(Labor): Ehud Barak

Kadima: Tzipi Livini

Although he is not the political leader, he is the spiritual leader of the Shas Party: Rabbi Yosef

It's time like these that I wished Celebrity Deathmatch existed in Israel. In all honesty, it doesn't even need to. These guys nag at each other like five year old children. I would just have to be in clay animation.

On a more serious note: where does the country go now? Well, now a coalition has to be formed. Likud looks like it is going to pull more parties in with it. With a mix of parties, and everyone wanted something more, will anything actually get done in the goverment, or will it be just like that last one, and not effectivly do anything? We can only watch. Here are a few articles to check out about the elections: