Trajtenberg, formerly a Member of the Knesset on behalf of the Zionist Union political party, resigned from political life in 2017, in order to devote himself to studying economic and social issues. Clearly, the reforms he has proposed, as part of his 100 days project, carried out at the S. Neaman Institute for National Policy Research, are strongly influenced by his years in the Knesset (2015-2017). The subtitle he has chosen for the proposed reform of the Knesset – ‘to restore past glory’ – is perhaps inspired by the worldview slogan of the Shas political party, but Trajtenberg aspires to change the rules of the game in the Knesset, with his proposed reform, to modernize Israel’s parliament.
The three main defects in the operations of the Knesset that Trajtenberg addresses are: a lack of real debate in the plenary, acceptance of a small, minimal majority to pass laws without broad consensus, and the inflation in the number of private bills that plague the Knesset.
