Your presence in the Knesset is a travesty and a farce anyway.

It's about time the Arab minority unite under one leadership. They should be the second or third largest party, 18 to 20% of population should get 20-25 seats. I doubt they will. Lots of their vote will be wasted and used for elections-only by Jewish blocks.

The best news to come out of Israel in 50 years! So many of its troubles emerge from its ridiculous electoral system, which encourages nutters to be elected and then force the country in bizarre, nationally suicidal directions. This will bring a little bit of reason to Israeli politics. But there's more to do. Next step: a preferential voting system like, for example, the Australian one, which forces voters to pick a more centrist party if their radical preferences don't work out.

In most countries the treshold is quite higher, from 5 to 10 or even 15%. Seems like the 2% rule was created to make sure that certain people were able to be elected. Time for normalization, time to give power to the ones that deserve it.

You are a two bit racist, shame on you.

In a normal democratic country it should be 4-5%. 2% will result in exactly what we see in Israel: too many parties with too many ideologies and coalitions and agreements based on lies and blackmailan. The next important thing is to reduce significantly the number of ministers. I hope Israel will start this path and in a few years populism and corruption will be far lower.

I would say for Israel a 2% rise is revolutionary Its not that long ago the level was 1% then after alot of debating the Knesset it was grudgingly by many raised to 2% Now if they are talking about raising the threshold 2% in one go thats revolutionary. It stil won't make any major changes though at just 4% because all that will happen is single issue parties will merge ( UTJ + Shas, Balad + Hadash + Meretz ) so parties with the same values will still be around there will just be more mergers. If we had a decent threshold that would leave just mainstream parties it would probably for the most time benefit the left and it would also result in a much lower voter turnout. The country would also be much more pro arab as everybody also tries to compete for the arab vote which right now the mainstream parties don't worry about to much.

"Just because you realize you are paranoid does not mean that no one is out to get you"

In Sweden we have a 4% voting limit the parties have to pass for to get seats in the parliament. That´s good because that makes it easier to form governments and rule the state.

I've been saying for years that politically speaking, Israeli Arabs are their own worst enemy. They should have 20 % of the seats in the Knesset, but they are divided. I think this move would empower them and make them a force to be reckoned with. If they have one list to vote for they could get 24 seats, making them the official opposition (depending on how the other parties do, of course). Israeli Arabs could realize a great deal of strength from this move. Tibi is upset because instead of being a big fish in a small party, he'd have to fight to get a spot on a truly united Arab list.

From my point of view we need 2 major political parties {a center-right one (Likud) and center-left one (Avodah)} and maximum 2 or 3 smaller ones. I think that a threshold of 4% is too low, 10 or 15% is more practical: with 10% or 15% we'll have less parties and less endless discussions. To Tibi and Co: if you believe in the Israeli democracy join one of the parties and… if you not believe in it, try to get a seat in the PA-, maybe later the Hamas parliament. Ahmad, you know the way as ex-adviser of Yasser.

And you are a naive, disconnected Tel Aviv bubble leftist who apparently has no problem with allowing open traitors to sit in government and leech off taxpayers.