The Parties

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The Parties
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Kadima

• Chairman Ehud Olmert
•  Platform  
• Party supports establishment of "another nation
  state whose formation resolves the refugee
  problem, as long as it is not a terror state."
  Party also pledges to keep large settlement blocs
  and maintain united Jerusalem
• Party is committed to Road Map peace plan and to
  phased diplomatic solution involving
  dismantlement of terror groups, PA security
  forces reform, and Palestinian pledge to prevent
  incitement
• Boosting Israel's Jewish character, bridging gap
  between secular and religious, nurturing
  country's  democratic character
• Investment in socioeconomic infrastructure.
  Boosting Negev and Galilee. War on poverty and
  crime
• Party calls for immediate action to change the
  system of government, pledges to submit bills
  that will boost Knesset members' obligation to
  the public, without the intermediation of
  parties' central committees.

Party History After dozens of years in Likud
and after completion the Gaza and northern West
Bank disengagement plan despite the objection of
many Likud members, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
announced in November 2005 he was quitting the
party and setting up a new one, along with
ministers and Knesset members from Likud and
Labor. Following the move, the Knesset was
dissolved and new elections were called.   PM
Sharon suffered a massive stroke in the beginning
of January 2006 and has been in a coma ever
since. Ehud Olmert replaced him as leader of the
party.     Notable figures Ehud Olmert, Tzipi
Livni ,Shimon Peres, Meir Sheetrit , Avi Dichter,
Tzachi Hanegbi, Shaul Mofaz, Haim Ramon
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Labor

• Chairman Amir Peretz
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• Platform  
• Party will act to renew diplomatic negotiations
  while fighting violence and terror, completing
  the West Bank security fence within one year, and
  maintaining Israel's security edge.
• Negotiations will be based on following
  principles Two states for two nations whose
  borders will be determined in talks between the
  sides. Large West Bank settlement blocs will be
  part of Israel. Isolated settlements not part of
  settlement blocs will be evacuated. Jerusalem,
  with all its Jewish neighborhoods, will remain
  Israel's eternal capital and Jewish holy sites
  will remain in Israel's hands.
• Investment in West bank will end and unauthorized
  outposts will be removed.
• Party pledges to share budgets fairly among all
  citizens, while setting targets for minimizing
  unemployment, raising minimum wage, and effective
  enforcement of Labor laws. Minimization of social
  gaps and investment in developing national
  infrastructures, job creation, and nurturing of
  small businesses.
• Party pledges to introduce steps that would
  prevent gaps when it comes to education and
  guarantee high-quality free education starting
  from a young age, with an emphasis on science,
  democracy, and humanism.
• Party pledges to emphasize full equality and the
  elimination of gaps between Arab and Jewish
  citizens in all areas. Party will act to boost
  government transparency.

Party History   The Labor party was established
in 1968 after several parties, including
then-governing party Mapai, joined together. In
1977, the party lost power to the Likud, headed
by Menachem Begin. The party joined forces with
Likud for national unity governments in the
1980s, and regained power in 1992, headed by
Yitzhak Rabin, who was later assassinated by
Yigal Amir. Before that, Rabin signed the Oslo
Agreement, paving the way for the creation of the
Palestinian Authority.   In 1999, Labor won 26
Knesset seats and again formed the government
under the leadership of Ehud Barak. In 2001,
after Barak quit and PM Ariel Sharon won the
elections, Labor joined a national unity
government headed by Likud.   In November 2005,
Amir Peretz won the party leadership, replacing
Shimon Peres, who quit the party and joined PM's
Sharon Kadima party.     Notable figures  Amir
Peretz ,Avishay Braverman, Ophir Pines-Paz ,
Isaac Herzog, Yuli Tamir, Ami Ayalon , Binyamin
Ben-Eliezer
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Likud

•  Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu
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• Platform  
• Israel will not allow the establishment of an
  Arab Palestinian state west of the Jordan River.
  The Palestinians will be able to manage their
  lives freely in the framework of an autonomous
  regime, but not as a sovereign, independent
  state. The Jordan River will be the State of
  Israel's permanent border. Jerusalem will not be
  divided and the expansion of Jewish neighborhoods
  in east Jerusalem will continue. The boosting of
  Jewish settlement activity in the Golan Heights
  will continue.
• The Likud pledges to continue to strive for peace
  with Syria without preconditions.
•  Israel will strive for a free economy while
  integrating into the global village, encouraging
  privatization, and greater exposure to
  competition. A tax reform will be introduced and
  greater investment would be made in development
  towns. Additional government assistance will be
  offered in order to expand the job market and
  minimize unemployment.
• Boosting Jewish, Zionist, and national elements
  at schools. When it comes to Arab and Druze
  educational facilities, the Likud pledges to act
  in order to prevent students from dropping out of
  school and boost the level of achievements. 
• Party History  
• The Likud movement can be traced back to the
  formation of the Herut movement by Menachem Begin
  upon Israel's establishment. Later the
• movement joined forces with the Liberal movement,
  and in 1973 joined forces with more elements that
  set up the Likud. In 1977, the party won 45
  Knesset seats in the elections and for the first
  time rose to power. In 1979, Begin signed the
  peace treaty with Egypt. In 1982, a Likud-led
  government initiated the Lebanon War, eventually
  prompting Begin to resign and quit public life.
  His replacement Yitzhak Shamir, formed a national
  unity government with Labor.  
• In 1997, Likud Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
  signed the Hebron agreement with the Palestinians
  and a year later signed the Wye agreement. In
  2001, Netanyahu made way for Ariel Sharon at the
  helm of the party. Sharon later initiated the
  disengagement plan that saw Israel remove
  settlements in the Gaza Strip and northern West
  Bank. Sharon later quit the party ahead of the
  upcoming elections and formed the Kadima party.
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• Notable figures  Benjamin Netanyahu, Silvan
  Shalom, Reuven Rivlin, Natan Sharansky, Gideon
  Sa'ar, Uzi Landau, Limor Livnat, Danny Naveh
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Meretz

• Chairman Yossi Beilin
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• Platform  
• Ending the occupation and evacuating settlers and
  the IDF from the West Bank. There will be no
  comprehensive peace without agreements with Syria
  and Lebanon.
• Emphasis on equality as the basis for the belief
  in peace, social justice, and human rights. The
  welfare state is a tool for the implementation of
  social justice, by promoting workers,
  guaranteeing social services of significant
  magnitude, and an obligation to financially
  assist workers. A commitment to assist
  kibbutzim.
• The State of Israel is the Jewish people's state
  and a country of all its citizens. The party aims
  to continuously boost human rights in accordance
  with international norms and protect those still
  discriminated against within Israeli society.
• Affirmative action to improve the status of women
  and steps that would see full equality of rights
  between Jews and Arabs through affirmative
  action.
• Freedom of religion and freedom from religious.
  Reinforcement of the High Court of Justice's
  position within society and the drafting of an
  Israeli constitution.   
• Party History  
• Party was established in 1992 after three
  left-wing parties joined forces. Won 12 Knesset
  seats in the elections and played a significant
  role in Yitzhak Rabin's government while backing
  his peace policies. At the same time, the party
  disappointed many by compromising on questions of
  religion and human rights in order to accommodate
  coalition partner Shas.  
• In 1996, Yossi Sarid took over the party's
  leadership. The party won 9 seats in the
  subsequent elections. Later, the Shinui faction
  quit Meretz and regained its independence.  
• In 1999, Meretz won 10 Knesset seats and joined
  Ehud Barak's coalition, quitting a year later
  over disagreements with Shas.  
• In 2003, Meretz dropped to six seats, prompting
  Sarid to quit. Yossi Beilin then quit the Labor
  party and joined Meretz with his Yachad movement.
  The party is now called Meretz-Yachad. Beilin was
  elected as the party's leader in 2004.  
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• Notable figure Yossi Beilin , Haim Oron, Ran
  Cohen, Zahava Gal-On  
• Avshalom Vilan

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Shinui

• Chairman Ron Leventhal
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• Platform  
• Party supports continuation of peace process with
  Palestinians in accordance with Road Map
  initiative, as long as the Palestinian Authority
  undertakes all efforts to curb terrorism.
• Israel will keep large settlement blocs, while
  other settlements will be evacuated, paving the
  way for the creation of a Palestinian state.
  Party backs compromise on Jerusalem that would
  maintain the city's unity under Israeli
  sovereignty, with maximal consideration given to
  the rights of the Muslim and Christian
  population.
• Committed to struggle against religious coercion
  while maintaining Israel's Jewish-Zionist
  character. Party backs separation of religion and
  state, freedom of and from religion, equal
  government allowances to every child, recruitment
  of yeshiva students to military or national
  service, public transportation on the Shabbat and
  civil marriages.
• Party backs free economy premised on private
  initiative and devoid of government bureaucracy,
  privatization of government companies, and
  taxation that encourages work, creation and
  investment. Party also committed to
  uncompromising battle against corruption.
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• Party History
• Shinui was formed in 1974, several months after
  the Yom Kippur War, by a group of professors from
  Tel Aviv University seeking to protest the
  failures that led to the war. Shinui's big
  breakthrough came in 1999 after journalist Yosef
  (Tommy) Lapid accepted an invitation to head the
  party, which identified its main objective as
  fighting religious coercion. In the last
  elections, Shinui won 15 Knesset seats, becoming
  the country's third largest party and joining
  Ariel Sharon's coalition, with Lapid designated
  as justice minister. In party primaries ahead of
  the 2006 elections, longtime Shinui member
  Avraham Poraz lost the second spot, leading to a
  party split certain to weaken the faction in the
  upcoming elections.
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• Notable figuresRon Leventhal, Ilan Leibovitch,
  Ehud Rassabi
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National Religious Party / National Union
Chairman Benny Elon   The far right National
Union party found itself outside government in
June 2005, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon fired
its two ministers for their opposition to the
disengagement. The party had already planned to
bail over the Gaza pullout, with minister
Binyamin Elon saying that the government "is
slipping down the diplomatic slope and is ready
to endanger the future of Israel for quiet... a
fake quiet."Fiercely opposed to territorial
concessions, the evacuation of settlements and
the creation of a Palestinian state in the West
Bank and Gaza, National Union believes that the
State of Israel belongs solely to the Jewish
people. Although they refrain from mentioning
it, some National Union MKs support the transfer
of Israel's Arab population out of the country.
National Union maintains that the Oslo Accords
were a disaster for Israel and that giving the
Palestinians security control and arming and
training them were the cause of the devastating
waves of terror attacks that followed the signing
of the 1993 accords. The party also opposes the
road map to Middle East peace, which is backed by
U.S. President George W. Bush and
theinternational community, claiming that it is
Oslo in disguise. National Union supports a
drastic reduction in government expenditure, and
wants priority given to a range of social
projects such as transport, environmental
rejuvenation and recycling. The party also
calls for reforms in the welfare benefit system,
believing there should be more of an incentive
for recipients to return to the workplace, such
as a law allowing benefit recipients who return
to part-time work to own a car.   Notable
figures Benny Elon, Zevulun Orlev, Zvi Hendel,
Effie Eitam, Arieh Eldad, Uri Ariel
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Israel out Home

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• Chairman Avigdor Lieberman
•  
• Platform  
• The party proposes that Arab-majority areas in
  Israel be handed over to the Palestinian
  Authority, while Jewish settlements and West Bank
  areas are officially made part of the State of
  Israel.
• Party backs a new citizenship law based on the
  perception that in order to enjoy the rights
  bestowed on Israeli citizens there are duties
  that must be fulfilled. Every Israeli citizen
  will have to pledge allegiance to the country and
  perform military service or an alternate national
  service.
• The party will act to fulfill Zionism's three
  basic principles Aliyah, defending the land, and
  settlement activity.
• The party pledges to eliminate crime and
  introduce stricter punishments, boost the level
  of education and the rate of economic growth,
  encourage foreign investment and minimize
  government expenses. Party also backs the
  privatization of government bodies.
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• Party History  
• The party was established in 1999 by Avigdor
  Lieberman a year after he quit the post of Prime
  Minister Netanyahu's bureau chief, in a bid to
  attract mostly Russian immigrant votes. The party
  won four Knesset seats in the subsequent
  elections and in 2000 merged with the National
  Union faction. Lieberman was later appointed as
  National Infrastructure Minister in Ariel
  Sharon's government but quit at the beginning of
  2002 after charging Sharon was not acting
  forcefully enough against the Palestinians.  In
  2003, the National Union won seven Knesset seats
  and Lieberman was appointed transportation
  minister. He was fired by Sharon in July 2004
  after objecting to the disengagement plan.  
• In 2005, Israel Our Home announced it will run
  independently in the upcoming elections and ended
  the merger with the National Union.  
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• Notable figures Avigdor Lieberman , Yuri Shtern
  , Yisrael Hasson 
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Shas

• Chairman Eli Yishai
•  
• Party platform 
• Party pledges to set objectives for minimizing
  unemployment and rewarding employers. Assistance
  to women and sectors in need of support. The
  formulation of a socioeconomic convention in
  order to create a common denominator for all
  market forces.
• Integrating Jewish tradition into the education
  system. The doctrine guiding the party's platform
  is that Israel is the Jewish people's state and
  Jewish identity must be preserved when it comes
  to decision making, while curbing moves that
  would see "a country of all its citizens"
  emerging. The party does not call for a state
  based on religious law, but rather, "a state with
  a Jewish soul" where Jewish character is
  preserved within state laws.
• Every diplomatic question on the agenda has
  answers in Jewish law. The party's spiritual
  leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, determines the
  party's official position. Yosef and other
  leading rabbis believe territorial compromise is
  allowed, but only when life is at stake and
  something is received in return.
•  
• Party History  
• The Sephardic religious party was established in
  1984 to counter a sense of discrimination among
  Sephardic (Middle Eastern descent) religious Jews
  vis-a-vis Ashkenazis (European descent.) Since
  its formation, the party's strength kept on
  growing, until in 1999 it won 17 Knesset seats,
  an achievement that to a large extent changed the
  political balance of power in Israel. The
  movement runs an independent education system in
  the framework of non-profit organizations, which
  also had a significant part in the party's rise.
• The party's spiritual leader has been Rabbi
  Ovadia Yosef since 1990. The party's most
  well-known leader was Arieh Deri, who at one
  point served as Interior Minister. Later, Deri
  was convicted, jailed and quit the party and
  political life, replaced by Eli Yishai the
  current party leader.
• Following the 2001 elections, Shas joined the
  Likud government and received several portfolios.
  Internal struggles, as well as changes in
  Israel's political climate, saw the party go down
  to only 11 Knesset seats in the 2003 elections.
  For the first time in its history, the party did
  not join the coalition and remained outside Ariel
  Sharon's government.
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• Notable figures Eli Yishai, Shlomo Benizri,
  Yitzhak Cohen, Amnon Cohen, Nissim Ze'ev

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National Torah Judaism
Chairman Yakov Litzman    United Torah Judaism
(UTJ) is an alliance of several wings of
Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodoxy, and aims to represent
the Haredi community in the corridors of power.
The party was opposed to the disengagement, and
initially took a prominent role in oppsing the
plan. This state of affairs lasted until shortly
before the start of the withdrawal, when the
party joined the coalition in return for certain
guarantees from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The
party works toward maintaining a Jewish lifestyle
in Israel and the dissemination of Jewish
tradition. The UTJ platform is formulated by its
spiritual leaders on every issue including
security, politics, society and economy.UTJ
supports the religious status quo. On the issue
of drafting yeshiva students, the party accepted
the position of the Tal Commission. The party
objects to any change to the law regarding the
Sabbath, including the opening of
businesses Notable figures Moshe Gafni,
Avraham Ravitz
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Balad
Chairman Azmi Bishara The most vocally radical
of the Arab parties, Balad, the National
Democratic Alliance, is headed by Azmi Bishara,
who founded the party in 1995. The party has
three current members of Knesset, Bishara, Wasil
Taha, and Jamal Zahalka. Bishara, a fiery
speaker, became the first Israel Arab to stand
for prime minister, competing against Benjamin
Netanyahu and Ehud Barak in 1999. Balad advocates
the return of all Palestinian refugees currently
resident elsewhere and the return of the Golan
Heights to Syria, two of the positions which have
set the party apart from other Arab
factions. Balad also wants Israel changed from
the Jewish state to "a state of all its
citizens." The proposal had been flatly dismissed
by other Israeli parties. It so incensed some
right-wingers that they called for Bishara to be
put on trial. Bishara sparked wider controversy -
and risked trial and imprisonment - for traveling
to Syria and Lebanon, speaking in favor of
resistance to occupation and in praise of
Hezbollah for, in his view, driving the Israel
Defense Forces out of southern Lebanon.On the
domestic front, Balad demands that Israel
recognize its Arab citizens, include the Druze,
as a national minority, and grant them cultural
autonomy. The party has objected to every state
budget submitted by every government, on the
grounds that it discriminates against the Arab
population.
United Arab List
Chairman Abdulmalik Dehamshe    Once the
largest Arab list, with five Knesset seats, Ra'am
now has only two legislators, party leader
Abdulmalik Dehamshe and Taleb A-Sana. Dehamshe
is a member of the Islamic Movement. A-Sana is a
Bedouin with roots in the Negev.Ra'am supports
the establishment of an independent Palestinian
state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip based on
pre-1967 borders. The party also supports the
evacuation of all settlements and the division of
Jerusalem. Ra'am has led fights against
demolition of homes built in Arab areas without
permits. It has also spearheaded efforts on
behalf of the nation's Bedouin Arab citizens.The
party demands increased funding for Arab towns
and the Arab sector. It supports separation of
religion and state.
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Hadash - Ta'al

• Chairman Ibraim Sarsur
•  
• Platform  
• The party calls for end to the occupation and the
  establishment of an independent Palestinian state
  with Jerusalem as its capital, as well as the
  evacuation of all settlements and of the Golan
  Heights.
• The party calls for an end to the expropriation
  of Palestinian land and the razing of homes, and
  wants to put an end to plans for boosting
  Jerusalem's Jewish character. 
• The party supports guarantying the right of
  return to Palestinian refugees in accordance with
  international decisions and the Palestinian
  consensus, and seeks the release of Palestinian
  and Arab prisoners. 
• The party wants Israeli Arabs to be recognized as
  a national minority and be awarded more rights.
  The party demands the dismantlement of weapons of
  mass destruction in the world in general and in
  Israel in particular.
• The party backs the formulation of a constitution
  that would recognize Israeli Arabs as a national
  minority. The party rejects the recruitment of
  Arabs to the IDF and wants equal representation
  to Arabs at State institutes.  
• The party also backs a boost in the status of
  women in all areas and the payment of allowances
  to all Israeli Arabs without discrimination as is
  the case with Jews. The party also wants gaps in
  education be minimized and calls for the
  establishment of an Arabic university. 
•  
• Party History  
• An Arab party formed ahead of the 14th Knesset
  elections. The United Arab List ran independently
  in the elections for the 15th and 16th Knesset.
  Ahead of the elections for the 17th Knesset, the
  party merged with Ta'al, headed by Ahmad Tibi.  
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• Notable figuresIbraim Sarsur, Ahmed Tibi,
  Taleb el-Sana

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Smaller Parties
Tafnit (anti-corruption agenda)Jewish National
Front (far right wing agenda)Herut (right wing
agenda)Tzomet (center-right wing agenda, social
causes)Green Leaf (legalization of
marijuana)Lehem (social justice)Brit Olam
(changing perceptions to put people in the
center),Gil (senior citizens) The Greens
(environmentalists) The Heart (fight against
banks) Lev la'olim (helping olim absorb in
Israel) Leeder Arab National Party (promotion
of rights of Israeli-Arabs)Strength For the
Poor (social justice) One Future (agenda
focusing on Ethiopian olim)Justice For All
(formerly - the man's rights in the family) New
Zionism (socioeconomic agenda) Da-am (workers'
party) Known first timers Tafnit, founded
by former IDF deputy chief of general staff Uzi
DayanLehem, founded by social activist Vikki
Knafo
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The Election Process Background

• National elections to the Knesset, Israel's
  parliament, are held once every four years,
  unless circumstances call for early elections.
• General On election day, voters cast one ballot
  for a political party to represent them in the
  Knesset. Every Israeli citizen aged 18 or older
  has the right to vote. Israelis of all ethnic
  groups and religious beliefs, including Arab
  Israelis, actively participate in the process and
  for many years, voting percentages have reached
  close to 80 percent.
• National The entire country constitutes a single
  electoral constituency.
• Direct The Knesset, the Israeli parliament, is
  elected directly by the voters, not through a
  body of electors.
• Equal All votes cast are equal in weight.
• Secret Elections are by secret ballot.
• Proportional The 120 Knesset seats are assigned
  in proportion to each party's percentage of the
  total national vote. However, the minimum
  required for a party to win a Knesset seat is 2
  of the total votes cast.
• Knesset elections are based on a vote for a party
  rather than for individuals, and the many
  political parties which compete for election to
  the Knesset reflect a wide range of outlooks and
  beliefs.
• The direct election of the prime minister,
  instituted in Israel in 1996, was abolished under
  the revised Basic Law The Government (2001) and
  the the task of forming a government and heading
  it as prime minister was assigned by the
  president to the Knesset member considered to
  have the best chance of forming a viable
  coalition government in light of the Knesset
  election results.
• Every citizen aged 21 or older is eligible for
  election to the Knesset, provided they have no
  criminal record, do not hold an official position
  (the president, state comptroller, judges and
  senior public officials, as well as the
  chief-of-staff and high-ranking military
  officers, may not stand for election to the
  Knesset unless they have resigned their position
  at least 100 days before the elections), and the
  court has not specifically restricted this right
  (for example, in the rare case of a person
  convicted of treason).
• Number of eligible voters in elections to the
  17th Knesset 5,014,622
• Israel's elections reflect the strong democratic
  tradition of the State of Israel. Election
  campaigns are a lively affair, accompanied by
  vigorous debate of the issues. Israelis take a
  great interest in political affairs, including
  internal policy and foreign relations, and
  actively participate in the electoral process.
• Only parties which have been legally registered
  with the Party Register, or an alignment of two
  or more registered parties, can present a list of
  candidates and

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The Election Process Background
participate in the elections. Prior to the
elections, each party presents its platform, and
the list of candidates for the Knesset, in order
of precedence. The parties select their
candidates for the Knesset in primaries or by
other procedures. Knesset seats are assigned in
proportion to each party's percentage of the
total national vote. A party's surplus votes,
which are insufficient for an additional seat,
are redistributed among the various parties
according to their proportional size resulting
from the elections, or as agreed between parties
prior to the election. The number and order of
members entering the new Knesset for each party
corresponds to its list of candidates as
presented for election. There are no by-elections
in Israel. Should an MK resign or pass away in
the course of the Knesset term, the next person
on that party's list automatically replaces
him/her. According to the Party Financing Law, a
treasury allocation for election campaigns is
granted to each faction at the rate of one
pre-defined "financing unit" per seat won in the
previous Knesset elections plus one unit per
mandate won in the current Knesset elections,
divided by two, plus one additional financing
unit. New factions receive a similar allocation,
retroactively, based on the number of seats won
in the elections. No faction may receive a
contribution, directly or indirectly, from any
person or his dependents in excess of the sum
established by law and linked to the Consumer
Price Index. A faction or list of candidates may
not receive a financial contribution from someone
who is not eligible to vote in the elections.
The Central Elections Committee, headed by a
justice of the Supreme Court and including
representatives of the parties holding seats in
the Knesset, is responsible for conducting and
supervising the elections. Regional election
committees oversee the functioning of local
polling committees, which include representatives
of at least three parties in the outgoing
Knesset. Anyone aged 16 or older is eligible to
serve on a polling committee. According to the
Basic Law The Knesset, the Central Elections
Committee may prevent a candidates' list from
participating in elections if its objectives or
actions, expressly or by implication, include one
of the following

• negation of the existence of the State of Israel
  as the state of theJewish people.
• negation of the democratic character of the
  State
• incitement to racism.

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Election Day All citizens aged 18 or older on
election day are eligible to vote. Election day
is a holiday in order to enable all to
participate. Soldiers on active duty vote in
special polling stations in their units. Special
arrangements have also been made for prison
inmates to vote, as well as for those confined to
hospital. Israeli law does not provide for
absentee ballots, and voting takes place only on
Israeli soil. The sole exceptions are Israeli
citizens serving on Israeli ships and in Israeli
embassies and consulates abroad. Lists and
Candidates The following parties have presented
lists of candidates to the Knesset Brit Olam /
Ofer LifschitzDa-am - Workers' Party / Agvaria
AsamaGil / Eitan Pentman RephaelGreen Leaf /
Boaz WachtelGreens (Hayerukim)  / Pe'er
WeissnerHadash / Mohammad BarakeHerut / Michael
KleinerHetz / Avraham PorazIchud Leumi - Mafdal
/ Benyamin ElonKadima / Ehud OlmertLabor-Meimad
/ Amir PeretzLechem / Yisrael TvitoLeeder /
Alexander RadkoLev / Ovadia FatchovLikud /
Benjamin NetanyahuMeretz / Yossi BeilinNational
Arab Party / Muhamad KananNational Democratic
Assembly / Azmi BisharaNational Jewish Front
/ Baruch MarzelNew Zionism / Yaakov KfirOne
Future / Avraham NegusaParty for the Struggle
with the Banks / Eliezer LevingerShas / Eliyahu
YishaiShinui / Ron LevintalStrength to the Poor
/ Felix AngelTafnit / Uzi DayanTorah and
Shabbat Judaism / Yakov LitzmanTzedek Lakol /
Yaakov ShlusserTzomet / Moshe GreenUnited Arab
List - Arab Renewal / Ibrahim TzartzurYisrael
Beitenu / Avigdor Liberman
The Election Process Background