Association for Civil Rights protests raising the elections threshold
The Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, chaired by MK David Rotem (Likud Beiteinu), began discussing two bills to amend Israel’s Basic Law: The Government. The “governance bills” include, among other things, a dramatic increase of the threshold for election to the Knesset – from 2% to 4% of the national vote. The Association for…