Book contents
- Israel
- Israel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Cartoonists Featured
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Jews: Caricatures, Cartoons, Comics
- Zionism: Ideology and the Building of the State
- Before Israel: the Road to 1948
- A History of Israel: 1949–2020
- The 1950s
- 1950
- 1951
- 1952
- 1953
- 1954
- 1955
- 1956
- 1957
- 1958
- 1959
- The 1960s
- The 1970s
- The 1980s
- The 1990s
- The 2000s
- The 2010s
- Collections of Works of Early Israeli Cartoonists
- Index
1955
from The 1950s
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2023
Book contents
- Israel
- Israel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Cartoonists Featured
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Jews: Caricatures, Cartoons, Comics
- Zionism: Ideology and the Building of the State
- Before Israel: the Road to 1948
- A History of Israel: 1949–2020
- The 1950s
- 1950
- 1951
- 1952
- 1953
- 1954
- 1955
- 1956
- 1957
- 1958
- 1959
- The 1960s
- The 1970s
- The 1980s
- The 1990s
- The 2000s
- The 2010s
- Collections of Works of Early Israeli Cartoonists
- Index
Summary
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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- IsraelA History in 100 Cartoons, pp. 90 - 93Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023