4-607: National Home ( הבית הלאומי , HaBayit HaLeumi ) was a short-lived political faction in Israel during 2006. National Home was formed on 5 February 2006 when two MKs, Hemi Doron and Eliezer Sandberg broke away from the Secular Faction (itself a recent breakaway from Shinui ). The faction received 600,000 shekels in party funding (transferred from Hetz , the Secular Faction's new guise). The faction
8-401: Is based on proportional representation , and allows for a multi-party system , with numerous parties represented in the 120-seat Knesset . A typical Knesset includes many factions represented. This is because of the low election threshold required for a seat – 1 percent of the vote from 1949 to 1992, 1.5 percent from 1992 to 2003, 2 percent from 2003 to 2014, and 3.25 percent since 2015. In
12-470: The 2015 elections , for instance, ten parties or alliances cleared the threshold, and five of them won at least ten seats. The low threshold, in combination with the nationwide party-list system, makes it all but impossible for a single party to win the 61 seats needed for a majority government . No party has ever won a majority of seats in an election, the most being 56, won by the Alignment grouping in
16-538: Was dissolved shortly before the March 2006 elections when both Doron and Sandberg joined Likud . They were included on Likud's Knesset list, placed in the symbolic 117th and 118th places in the party list, and both lost their seats. This article about an Israeli political party is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . List of political parties in Israel Israel 's political system
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