The only decision that remains is whether it's better to run as three parties or as one. Uniting to one party after the elections will also work. Wishing you the best of luck.

So the leaders of the 3 leftist parties criticsed Netanyahu's fiscal pollicies? so what's new? Was there even one proposal between them as to what to do about it? What are their fiscal policies? Do they even have one? Easy to criticise but if the left should - perish the thought - form a government, I don't think they'll find is so easy to make the reforms they're busy shouting about.

Bibi spent his last spell as PM explaining that for a good economy you have to lower taxes and this time he raises them - was he lying then or is he lying now?? The only reason we are having elections is because of the economic mess that he has created - partly by refusing to tackle the Haredi burden which grown inexorably like an untreated cancer until it destorys the economy, partly because he caves into every public sector strike, giving pay rises that cannot be afforded to the public sector whilst the private sector suffers pay freezes, pay cuts and redundancies. And as bibi takes us down the road to sanctions and economic collapse, to follow the moral one that is becoming self evident as you put it heaven forbid that we should stop and think.

Bibi's plan was to reduce the public sector to help the private sector. Remember the fat man/thin man story from the first time he was elected? But he does not have the ability to stand up to the big unions (doctors, ports, now histadrut nurses) or the corrupt civil service. So when they strike (with media and opposition support) he has no choice but to fold, meaning the powerful unions got more money, the deficit goes up and so we pay more taxes for less service. But no matter how bad Netanyahu is, the alternative is worse: Yehimovitch is on record as supporting the powerful unions.

Gets me when these US people who voted for Obama, get on their high horses to tell Israelis how to chose their government Doubt they have any more than 61 cents in the dollar