How a Tiny Change to Voting Laws Created Israel’s Political Crisis
It’s a basic rule of negotiations: the most strident party is inevitably the one with the upper hand.
October 20, 2022
How a Tiny Change to Voting Laws Created Israel’s Political Crisis
It’s a basic rule of negotiations: the most strident party is inevitably the one with the upper hand.
On November 1, Israelis will vote in their fifth national election in less than four years. Examining the roots of the current political deadlock, Haviv Rettig Gur, interviewing Shany Mor—both regular writers for Mosaic—notes the effects of a seemingly minor reform adopted in 2014. That reform raised the electoral threshold—the minimum proportion of votes required for a party to be represented in the Knesset—from 2 percent to 3.25 percent. Rather than reducing the influence of the fringe political parties, as its proponents promised it would, increasing the threshold appears to have had the opposite effect:
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