So claims Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn in an essay praising monarchist government:
… It is not surprising that Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, declared monarchy the best form of government, but, since no descendants of David survived, the aristocratic constitution of Venice should be studied in the planning of a Jewish State, whereas democracy, as the worst type of rule, was to be strictly avoided. (See Theodor Herzl, “Der Judenstaat,” Theodor Herzls zionistische Schriften (Charlottenburg: Jüdischer Verlag, n.d.), p. 119.). History is already telling us how right he was.
Find the rest on Mises.org, here.
This beggars belief. There are plenty of descendants of David Hamelech. But I didn’t check out the reference.