Unless we create new rules, we may have a disaster. Reichman made his comments in San Francisco last week. He was here to spread the word about The Interdisciplinary Center, a private university which he helped establish in Herzliya and speak at the S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation. The Tel Aviv resident has spent over a decade looking for any cracks or coalitions in the government that would provide the opening he needed to push through the constitution. The upcoming elections may give him his chance.
Leaders only have to have the willpower and readiness to cooperate.
But they've let Reichman down plenty of times before. Few political leaders listened in the late '80s when Reichman pitched the constitution to campaigners. Reichman said most politicians nixed the document because it would have curbed their power. However, a measure introducing the constitution to the Knesset that year was killed easily by religious parties. Despite that setback, Reichman found reason for optimism because the Knesset did pass an election reform which he had authored.