Rethinking the Israeli Presidency, Michael Boyden
www.israel21c.org/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Views^l267&enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enVersion=0&enZone=Views
What Israel needs is a President everyone can respect…

Israel as a Jewish State, Daniel C. Elazar
www.jcpa.org/dje/articles2/isrjewstate.htm  

Jerusalem's Leadership Crisis Deepens, Orly Halpern
www.forward.com/articles/jerusalem-s-leadership-crisis-deepens/
Public lack confidence in morality and competence of Israeli leadership

Aharon Barak's Revolution, Hillel Neuer
www.daat.co.il/daat/ezrachut/english/hillel.htm

Is Theodor Herzl Resting in Peace? Yossi Sarid [Hagshama Dept, WZO]
www.hagshama.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=2145

The Last Straw, Ari Shavit
www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtStEngPE.jhtml?itemNo=786096&contrassID=2&subContrassID=14&title='The+last+straw+'&dyn_server=172.20.5.5
MK Ophir Pines-Paz resigns ministerial post to do the right thing, not compromise; leadership crisis in Israel; opportunism.

Democratic Norms, Diasporas, and Israel's Law of Return, Yakobson-Rubinstein [2005]
www.ajc.org/atf/cf/%7B42D75369-D582-4380-8395-D25925B85EAF%7D/YakobsonRubinstein2005.pdf

Israeli Leadership 1997, Dry Bones
http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/israeli-leadership-1997.html
Perennial bungling by Israeli leadership