The 1996 contest will be the first time that the Israeli electorate elects the prime minister directly, rather than through party lists to elect members of parliament.

The Israeli electorate voted "against" as much as for.

Its strategists are not looking for seismic shifts, for that rarely happens in the Israeli electorate of 3.4 million people.

Barak had to contend with a very different Israeli electorate from the one Rabin had led.

That covers 75 percent of the Israeli electorate.

By insisting on that linkage, the Administration is trying to demonstrate to the Israeli electorate that the current unrestrained settlement policy has tangible costs.

So they took the extraordinary step of effectively saying to the Israeli electorate: If you want the loan guarantees, change your Government.

Mr President, the Palestinian and Israeli electorates have indeed dealt us a complicated hand.

Of course, they would be swept away by the peace-loving Israeli electorate.

The Israeli electorate is different from that in most democracies because there is a relatively small center.