isn't having a 3000-strong Central Committee a bit megalomaniac for a [medium size] political party in a small country? Even multimillion strong Chinese and [in its day] Soviet communist parties have/had much smaller central committees, despite possessing complete power monopoly and thus having many more functions to perform.
Actually, no, it's not. It insures greater democracy and participation. Also, please realize that Likud is not medium sized, or wasn't before the Prime Minister broke away and formed Kadima. Likud won seven of the last nine elections and with 40 seats in the last Knesset it was by far (as in by almost double the next party) the largest party in Israel.
Please don't compare us to China or the Soviets. We are a democratic state.