The law proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud for placing cameras in polling stations in Arab communities fell as fast as it was proposed on Sept. 9. Despite its short life, it raised, in a roundabout way, another important issue: the cost of the election to the Israeli market and its ramifications for the Israeli economy.
A senior official at the Ministry of Economy and Industry who is involved in economic planning and who spoke to Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity said, “Politicians on all sides should get this. If, God forbid, they won’t succeed in forming a government, and there would be a third election, the Israeli economy would enter a serious, catastrophic crisis, from which it would be very hard to recover.”