Follow Mar. 16, 2021 Nitzan Horowitz is in trouble. When he returned to the political arena and was chosen to be the chairman of Meretz in June 2019, he never imagined he’d be dragged from one election to another and embroiled in a nerve-racking battle to pass the electoral threshold. “Nobody in his worst nightmares imagined such a thing, but I’m coping,” he tells Haaretz. What will happen if you don’t pass the threshold (i.e., garner the minimum proportion of votes, currently 3.25 percent, necessary to get into the Knesset)? “It won’t happen. We’re doing everything so that we will.”