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Professor Abraham Diskin and Emmanuel Navon formulated a proposal for moderate changes to the Israeli electoral system.

The proposal is based on an early draft [Hebrew] <\/a>that includes allowing voters to select specific individual candidates without weakening the loyalty of candidates to the parties to which they belong. The second component suggested, enables raising the threshold for parties to enter the Knesset without wasting votes or encouraging insincere voting.

The full paper<\/a> seeks to make MKs more accountable, on the one hand, and improve government stability on the other. In order to do so, it is proposed to (a) enable voters to select candidates for the Knesset from lists proveided by parties, and (b) establish a mechanism for forming multi-party alliances.

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