Israel needs real reform, not a lower electoral threshold - opinion
Lowering the electoral threshold is not intended to bring new voices into the Knesset but only to assist those who are already there.
PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG addresses the Knesset plenum at the opening of the winter session on Monday, as Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana sits next to him. Lowering the electoral threshold preserves sectoral and polarized politics, the writer maintains.(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)ByASAF HEIMAN