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Report: Netanyahu, Liberman agree to raise electoral threshold

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman agreed on Thursday to raise the electoral threshold for parties who want to enter the Knesset. The threshold is currently at 2% and will be raised to 3.25%, Israel Radio reported.
The bill that raised the threshold was being pushed by Yisrael Beiteinu and Yesh Atid, who originally called for it to be raised to 4%.