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How a rule change helped Netanyahu win Israel's elections

CNN · Richard Allen Greene, Amir Tal, Hadas Gold · last updated
One reason his Knesset majority is bigger than Netanyahu’s popular vote is that three parties in the outgoing Knesset each got less than 3.25% of the popular vote. The irony of is that it was Avigdor Liberman and Yair Lapid pushed to raise the threshold to 3.…