Colin Chapman investigates the turbulence predicted in the 2015 Israeli election. 

The Israelis will go to the polls on 17 March 2015, St Patrick’s Day, after the Netanyahu Government dissolved parliament on 8 December 2014.

In a seminal article, the New York Times questions whether Israel can continue as both a Jewish homeland and the lone democracy in a region torn apart by ethnic and religious strife.

The BBC’s Jerusalem correspondent reports that Israel’s political outlook is as turbulent, crowded and unpredictable.

Meanwhile Israel’s opposition leader has told the Brookings Institute that peace with Palestine is “absolutely possible”.

For a different perspective, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz attempts to explore what it says are four myths about the elections.