11.   He sees a hefty tax cut as an insurance policy against an economic downturn and a way to keep politicians from spending the surplus on wasteful government programs.

12.   Ideological differences and rival ambitions have kept politicians from forming a stable coalition ever since.

13.   Keeping a politician away from the very people he wants to please is alien in Israel.

14.   Opposition politicians have been kept out of parliamentary committees and most other other decision-forming roles.

15.   The gloomy mood among voters was unlikely to keep politicians from battling for power.