Opens with sensational news - the Knesset is on the verge of dispersal.
It can happen in a week, a month or three.
But the 60s coalition can no longer hold out, and as this is clear to all political actors, there is an instruction in the parties: stop worrying about the coalition's peace - start worrying about the party's peace ahead of the election.
Thus, the same parties are in fact bringing their own end closer in a last-ditch attempt to extract achievements in public opinion.
While they are all trying to improve positions, the most important thing for Meretz and the Labor Party to sell to their audience at the moment is that they maintain the coalition pragmatically.
"Island of stability," as Michaeli puts it.
They do it because that's what their voters most want.
As soon as one Meretz MK broke lines, the party went below the blocking percentage. As soon as Idit Silman opened her mouth about Horowitz and the chametz, Meretz was abducted. Readers of these lines have only just remembered it. And yet, Horowitz has come under fire. Voters want one thing: wait with your ideology until the rage passes.
At first glance, this is a pretty simple instruction, but here comes the tangle: what will they sell when they get to the voter.
After all, Meretz and Labor have no right to exist without their ideological refinement - a day after the Knesset dissipates and the smoke of war disappears, voters return to the polls and may say thank you for a year of sacrifice, but now - home.
As much as they compromise, they will have nothing to wave at in the election.
As long as they do not compromise, they will not be able to reach the starting line healthy and intact at all.
It is too easy to blame voters for a tangle or to argue for shallowness, but the truth is that too many parties have not built a story.
They did not bother, within a complex coalition, to reinvent themselves.
Lapid is the leader of the bloc.
He's the arrowhead who's guarding him, and he'll ultimately benefit from "keeping the coalition first" voters.
Others have no story - on the one hand they compromised a little on everything, and on the other hand they did not compromise enough on everything.
They are parties that hold such a broad worldview that it has become a curse in Israeli politics - because in their smallness and limited forces they have to play all over the field, and this field is wet and full of mud and potholes.
The Social Party, the Civic Party, the Green Party.
Choose one distinct and desirable flag theme possible, and declare that it is their story.
Meretz could have committed suicide on Zandberg's excellent climate law, and at work could easily have been the Social Party compromising on almost everything except the minimum wage and the cost of living reform.
But they tried to play all over the field.
Their achievement lists are good and appropriate for a well-designed flyer, but in practice - in front of the general public it does not stick.
None of them could be identified with any subject, except women for work and LGBT for Meretz.
And in the next election, with all due respect, the Women's Party and the LGBT Party will have to work very hard to succeed in lifting two separate parties above the blocking percentage.
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