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erusalem — Many Israelis state-funded election campaign
are still recovering from be carried to centers of the ex-
the result of last May's na- patriate population — presum-
tional election, so why is ably including jaunts abroad by
there so much talk about the the prime ministerial and Knes-
next one — currently scheduled set candidates.
for the year 2000?
Not surprisingly, the uproar
It's because two Likud Knes- was instant. Opponents rightly
set members, Reuven
complained that it grant-
Rivlin and Michael David L evy and ed citizens who do not pay
Binya min
Kleiner, have already
Israeli taxes, or do regu-
Netan yahu
proposed controversial
lar reserve duty, an equal
discus s the
laws that would subtly "demo cracy" opportunity to influence
but effectively change the
national policy.
initial ives.
whole process.
They also argued that
Two weeks ago, Mr. Rivlin this would undermine the core
tabled a law that would permit of the Zionist ethos by encour-
holders of Israeli passports the aging Israelis to emigrate. "How
world over to vote in elections can a nationalist government
for the Knesset and prime min- initiate such a law?" asked an
ister. Until now, only citizens outraged Labor Knesset deputy,
registered at a permanent ad- Effi Oshaya.
dress in Israel and present in the
"You should be ashamed of
country on election day were el- yourselves," Meretz deputy Dedi
igible to vote. Exceptions were Zucker shouted from the Knes-
merchant seamen, diplomats set floor. "This is a Zionist gov-
and other citizens on official mis- ernment?"
sions abroad, who could vote at
Mr. Rivlin was quick to ex-
embassies and consulates.
plain that his motive was to the
The mail-in option for absen- bolster the electoral ratio that
tee ballots has been unavailable already favors Israel's Jewish
to the hundreds of thousands of citizens. Estimates are that
Israelis who reside, permanent- some 600,000 of Israel's expa-
ly or otherwise, abroad.
triates — the overwhelming ma-
Mr. Rivlin's bill dramatical- jority Jews — continue to renew
ly departs from the long-held their Israeli passports. The pro-
view that those who live outside posed law would enable some
of Israel, yordim, are looked 350,000 of them to vote.
upon with some degree of scorn.
Their addition to the rolls
Yet, it won the hearty backing combined with the influx of hun-
of Prime Minister Binyamin Ne- dreds of thousands of new Jew-
tanyahu and was passed, on its ish voters from the former Soviet
first reading, by a majority of 22 Union would further diminish
to 17.
Israeli Arabs' political clout.
The only serious reservation Thus, Mr. Rivlin claimed, his
of supporters came from Inte- sole aim was to ensure Israel's
rior Minister Eliyahu Suissa, maintaining its character as a
who noted that its requirement Jewish state.
to establish official polling sta-
Mr. Kleiner then kicked in
tions abroad was not feasible. with an even less-artful propos-
He said that the bill needed to al (not yet tabled as a bill) that
be amended to include mail-in only a Jewish citizen could run
ballots. He also suggested, in the for prime minister.
interests of fairness, that the
This came after Azmi Be-