Several smaller "left", "center-left" and "right" parties were merged separately. For example, the "leftist" Meretz party (Meretz) campaigned with the "center-left" Labour and Gesher parties; the "United Right" (Yamina) was the result of the integration of several right-wing small parties. Small parties that are not integrated, such as Otzma Yehudi, which is considered far-right, are excluded from Congress because they do not meet the 3.25 percent threshold. In addition to the phenomenon of political party integration in numbers, it can also be said that there is a certain degree of integration in the position of political parties.
First of all, as the two major parties in Congress, the Coalition Party and the Blue and White Alliance have no major differences in their leaders' positions on some key issues. For example, in response to the Middle East peace plan proposed by US President Donald Trump before the Israeli parliamentary election, the leaders of the two major parties, Netanyahu and Gantz, expressed their willingness to see it succeed, and both sides are willing to implement the framework company banner design provided by Trump. Let's start the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. In addition, Israel is our Home Party and United Right, two small parties that can be classified as "right", whose main leaders are former United Party members. This implies that, apart from personal grudges and differences on some issues, they are no different from Netanyahu's coalition party on many issues.
However, the compression of the survival of small parties also means that some issues are squeezed. For example, a newly established political party focusing on women's rights issues only received 2,779 votes (0.06%) , and did not cross the 3.25% threshold, and did not get seats; in addition, the social justice movement (commonly known as the tent movement), which protested against high housing prices since 2011, received only 2779 votes (0.06%). ), the leader of the rising Green Party, Stav Shaffir, who had broken up with other "leftist" parties in the integration process, after an assessment, announced that the party would not participate in the event. election. To a certain extent, this means that the issues that the Israeli Green Party cares about, including environmental protection, animal rights, education, etc., are still relatively marginalized in national politics.