Amit Segal, Channel 12's senior political commentator, published a video today (Sunday) in which he attacks the notion that a high electoral threshold contributes to the stability of the government in Israel.
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Segal compared the Knesset structure to a tower of cubes and argued that small, precise stones build a more stable and better tower than the large cubes currently used in the system.
Segal mentions that in the past the threshold was very low, which allowed small parties such as the Yemenite Party to enter the Knesset. He criticized the move led by Lieberman, Lapid, and Netanyahu in 2014 to raise the threshold to 3.251% - and claimed that this step did not prevent the last five election cycles.
According to him, the high electoral threshold caused the right wing to lose seats in 2019 and the fall of Meretz in 2022, while at the same time leading to radicalization in the Arab parties, which were forced to unite with extremist elements.
""Israel's problem is not the extremism of small parties, but the extortion of medium-sized parties," he explained.
Segal further claims that the high threshold prevents new forces, such as working ultra-Orthodox Jews serving in the army or Arabs interested in economic progress and opposed to terrorism, from receiving adequate representation.
He called for lowering the threshold to allow for surprising collaborations between the camps and to break the monopoly of the existing politicians. "They were used to locking the door of the closed club with a key, it's time to kick this door in.".
Watch the video.
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