Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Elections for the fourteenth Knesset were held in Israel on 29 May 1996. Voter turnout was 79.3%. The 1996 elections included two new changes, both designed to increase the stability of the Knesset. First, the Prime Minister was to be elected on a separate ballot from the remaining members of the Knesset. Second, the election threshold for allocation of a seat was raised to 2% from 1.5%. Elections in Israel are based on nationwide proportional representation. The electoral threshold is currently set at 2%, with the number of seats a party receives in the Knesset being proportional to the number of votes it receives.