Why does the government of Israel fall so regularly?
Parliamentary systems of government, by nature, are not as stable as other forms of democratic governments. The coming elections will bring to power the 31st government in the history of Israel. In a similar time span Italy and Japan, which have similar parliamentary systems, have both had a similar number of governments. The ruling/large party(s) are dependent on the cooperation of smaller parties to form a coalition, which leads to instability as these smaller parties can leave the coalition at any time which often leads to the fall of the government.
