If elections are normally times of celebration, either for retaining successful governments or for renewing politics with new faces and ideas, the forthcoming general election in Israel instead inspires a mixture of hope and dread. Hope that the country may rid itself of the most disastrous government in its history; dread over what further damage this coalition government might inflict before voters finally go to the polls. In the meantime, the Knesset is slowly proceeding with votes on a bill to dissolve itself.