27 October 2026
How to vote
Most of the questions English speakers ask us are procedural, and some of the answers are disappointing. Here they are anyway.
Not yet confirmed The joint list's ballot letters are not confirmed. The vote page prints a holding line instead of a letter. Why
The ballot slip
Israelis vote by placing a printed slip in an envelope. Each list has a letter code printed on its slip, and the letters are what you look for — not the party name.
The joint list's final letter code is being confirmed with the Central Elections Committee. It will be printed here, and on every piece of campaign material, before election day. Do not rely on a letter you read anywhere until it is confirmed.
Who can vote
Israeli citizens aged 18 or over on election day, registered in the Population Registry, voting in person at their assigned polling station with a Teudat Zehut, a valid Israeli passport or a driving licence with a photograph. Election day is a public holiday and polling stations are open through the day.
If you live abroad, you almost certainly cannot vote
Israel has no general absentee ballot. With narrow exceptions — diplomatic and official emissaries posted abroad, and Israeli seamen — voting means being physically in the country on 27 October 2026. Holding citizenship is not enough, and no campaign can change this for you. If you are an oleh living in Israel, you vote normally. If you are abroad that week, plan the trip or accept that you are out.
If you are not an Israeli citizen
You cannot vote, and you cannot donate — Israeli party-financing law bars contributions from non-citizens and from corporations entirely. Anyone soliciting a foreign donation for an Israeli party is either mistaken or worse. What you can do is talk to the people you know who do vote here, and sponsor a caravan for someone living with post-traumatic stress, which is aid rather than politics and is open to anyone anywhere. In a race decided at the threshold, the conversation is the whole mechanism.
The threshold
A list must take 3.25% of valid votes to enter the Knesset at all — about four seats' worth. Below it, every vote cast for that list is discarded and redistributed among the parties that crossed. This is the real question on the table for a list like ours, and it is decided by how many people turn up.