from The 1950s
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2023
As Israel’s second prime minister, Moshe Sharett had difficulty in forming a coalition, eventually taking fifty-one days. The Progressives refused to join any government until the threshold to gain a Knesset seat had been raised to 4.2 per cent. Such a threshold would have eliminated the smaller parties. Ben-Gurion, now living a spartan life in Sde Boqer in the Negev desert as an example to other Israelis, suggested a provocative 10 per cent threshold.
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