北京时间7月18日凌晨，2026捷克U17女篮世界杯1/4决赛战罢，中国U17女篮以68比69惜败于劲旅加拿大女篮，遗憾地止步八强，将参加5-8名排位赛。 Last week, Israel's parliament voted to dissolve itself after the ruling Bloc of Change coalition had lost its paper-thin majority. Lapid, who served as the foreign minister in Bennett's cabinet and is also the leader of the largest opposition party Yesh Atid, assumed the office of prime minister until the next parliamentary elections scheduled for November. This will be the country's fifth snap vote in under four years.,The previous one took place in March 2021 after the parliament had dissolved itself due to the failure to adopt a state budget by the deadline. It ended with Lapid forming a coalition agreement with Bennett, who leads the right-wing Yamina political alliance, entailing a rotational two-year premiership.,Unique Coalition,The coalition created by Bennett and Lapid was the most diverse in Israel's history, consisting of parties that run the gamut from right to left, religious to secular, and even included an Arab party, the United Arab List (also known as Ra'am). Other coalition members included Yesh Atid, Yamina, Blue and White, Yisrael Beiteinu, New Hope, Labor and Meretz.,The coalition's diversity is explained by the shared desire to prevent Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of the right-wing Likud party and a former prime minister, from once again taking power. However, the variety of political forces presented in the coalition also made it hard to sustain.,"The effort and the energy that were invested in maintaining the coalition government throughout this year actually exhausted the government and the people at the top, and they couldn’t really deal with certain issues that could have given them credit were they successful in surviving until the next elections," Tamar Hermann, a professor of political science at the Open University of Israel and academic director of the Viterbi Family Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research at the Israel Democracy Institute, said.,According to Itzhak Galnoor, a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and emeritus Herbert Samuel professor of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Bennett-Lapid government should have invested much more effort in keeping the alliance together, which they failed to do.,"It was an attempt to save Israeli democracy, prevent corruption, show that a government can function without all those tricks and things that the Netanyahu government was notable for doing for many years. In this way, I mean the second part, they actually did succeed for a while. So, the main failure, as I said, was the problem of maintaining some politicians within the parties who knew exactly what they were getting into. It wasn’t just that the whole experiment was a failure, it was more of a personal thing," Galnoor said.,The expert also suggested that if the Arab political alliance Joint List, which was not part of the ruling coalition, had given its support to the government and overcome the personal animosity between them and the United Arab List then the coalition would have survived.,"So, it is difficult to say more than we have now personification of politics, which makes it very difficult to have a coalition and it does not matter even if we may have ten elections," Galnoor surmised.,Meanwhile, Liron Lavi, a lecturer and research fellow at the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, drew attention to the changes in the Israeli political spectrum.,"'Right' and 'Left' are much less about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict- the main issue that has defined Israeli politics since 1967. Instead, the political axis in Israel is being re-shaped around issues of the state's Jewish identity and democracy," she stated, adding that "in light of this change, and until the political axis will be redefined and parties will realign themselves along it, we are expected to see more political instability in Israel in the near future.",Time for Change,The series of snap elections has revealed the issues with Israel's current electoral system, in which parliamentary seats are proportionally divided between parties and a ruling coalition must secure 61 seats in order to form a government. However, creation of a stable political coalition out of sprawling factions has become a daunting task. At the same time, parties are currently the least trusted political organizations in Israel, with people often having little idea what is the real difference between them, according to Hermann.,"Many parties do not even have platforms, so people vote by identification based on, as I said, the level of religiosity and past experience," Hermann explained. "The parties are, in a way, obsolete, but we don’t have any alternative channel for choosing the candidates for the national elections, so if the electoral system is changed, probably the parties will have to adapt and maybe become more relevant.",Galnoor, for his part, underscored the need to make sure the country has a stable government and ruling coalition, noting that the Israeli Democracy Institute suggested the following changes to the country's parliamentary system: making the head of the biggest party after the election the prime minister by default so they could form a governing coalition as well as introducing mixed elections, with some lawmakers representing geographic constituencies instead of being voted on via party lists.,"You have, let’s say, a member of the Knesset [who] represents the Negev, the south, he would have to represent all the people in the south. It would be Jewish and Arab and it would be Orthodox and non-Orthodox, so you would have a representative, a member of the Knesset, that cuts across the differences in society," the expert outlined the idea.,Shmuel Sandler, the professor emeritus of political science at Bar-Ilan University and a senior research fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies also called for electoral reform and hoped that a coalition without Netanyahu might implement it.,"He would try to go for a reform in which the head of the largest party is also elected as PM. But this does not assure stability," Sandler noted.。
B | 尽管输掉了比赛，但中国姑娘们时隔10年再度杀入该项赛事八强，已经创造了近年来的最佳战绩。中国队在小组赛中2胜1负，以小组第二名的身份获得了参加淘汰赛的资格。1/8决赛，中国队发挥出色，以23分优势大胜拉脱维亚晋级八强，迎来了与加拿大队争夺四强名额的1/4决赛。全场比赛都在胶着的状态中进行，上半时中国队以30比29领先1分，核心球员李沅珊被对手重点盯防，孙晗昀站出来砍下10分。第三节开始后不久，当值裁判便第4次吹罚孙晗昀犯规，她只好暂时下场，中国队形势危急。本节中加拿大队反超了比分，领先9分进入到决胜节的争夺。第四节，中国女篮庞云舒内线连得4分，紧跟冯颖、李沅珊连续反击追至3分分差，随后加拿大连续冲框再度领先7分，中国女篮贾驭连续反击再度缩小至3分，加拿大三分命中领先6分，紧跟中国女篮李沅珊迅速连得5分迫近至1分分差，比赛来到最后2分钟，加拿大内线得分领先3分，随后双方持续进攻不中，比赛还剩最后半分钟，中国女篮庞云舒造犯规两罚全中，紧跟加拿大失误中国女篮孙晗昀内线得分反超1分，留给加拿大12.7秒，加拿大二次进攻内线得分反超1分，中国女篮最后1.7秒后场发球超远三分不中，最终中国女篮U17 68-69不敌加拿大女篮U17。这场比赛虽然输了球，但面对北美强队，中国U17女篮的姑娘们敢打敢拼，将胜负悬念保持到了最后一刻并且一度有机会完成逆袭，值得点赞。中国队参加U17女篮世界杯的最好战绩是在2010年，当时获得了第三名。2016年该项赛事，中国队也曾晋级四强。之后的几届U17女篮世界杯，中国队的最好战绩仅为16强，这一次打进八强是时隔10年来取得的最好战绩。
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