It is a wonder that Israel ever manages to get anything done - let alone to power ahead as the so-called Start Up Nation - with its sclerotic, chaotic, neurotic political system. In reality, its citizens achieve results despite, not because of, the Israeli government.
Now we have the prospect of another set of elections next March. Ignore the superficial policy reasons behind the collapse of the coalition. They are more for public spin than anything else. Policy has very little to do with it. This is about personalities and power. Whether it is Benjamin Netanyahu's sub-Machiavellian attempts to reshape the political landscape to his advantage, the positioning of former coalition partners such as Naftali Bennett and Avigdor Lieberman, or the inability of the likes of Yair Lapid to push their own agenda through the Cabinet, the coalition is over because it is over. There is no more depth to it than that. Now Israel has to endure another round of electioneering, wanted by no one - except, perhaps, Mr Bennett, whose Jewish Home looks set to increase its representation. Enough, already.