Amazing what a 3.25% threshold vs a 3.0% threshold makes.
So it was previously 3% then? Why the change if so??
It wasn't, it's just 3% would be a much more sensible number.
Until the elections for the 13th Knesset in 1992, a party had to receive at least 1% of the votes in order to secure representation in parliament. Leading up to those elections, the electoral threshold was raised to 1.5%. In May 2004 (16th Knesset) the electoral threshold was raised to 2%, and on March 11, 2014 (19th Knesset), the threshold was increased to 3.25%.