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The blocking percentage - the minimum number of votes a list must receive in the elections to win representation in the Knesset.
The blocking percentage currently stands at 3.25% of all kosher votes.
Therefore, only parties that receive more than 3.25% of the votes will enter the Knesset and will be represented by four MKs.
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Secret elections - in order to ensure the fairness of the elections and to prevent any attempt to influence voters on how to vote, the secrecy of the voting, which is carried out behind a curtain, is strictly adhered to.
The law provides penalties for any attempt to influence citizens on how to vote.
Likud Chairman Netanyahu at an election conference in Ma'ale Adumim Photo: Yoni Rickner
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surplus agreement - an agreement signed between two parties before the elections, and which is intended to increase their chances of receiving additional mandates from the surplus votes remaining after the distribution of the complete mandates.
A party that does not pass the blocking percentage does not participate in the distribution of the additional mandates.
In the current elections, all parties in the Netanyahu bloc signed surplus agreements - Likud with religious Zionism and Torah Judaism with Shas. On the other hand, in the center-left bloc, not all parties signed surplus agreements, and many attribute this failure to the head of the bloc - Yair Lapid. Israel Beitenu Avigdor Lieberman's did not sign, as did the Arab parties.
Lieberman.
Left without a surplus agreement, photo: Yossi Zeliger
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the Central Elections Committee - a committee chaired by a judge of the Supreme Court, whose members are representatives of all the parties that were represented in the outgoing Knesset. The committee is responsible for managing the elections to the Knesset and their regularity. In the current elections, the committee is chaired by Supreme Court Judge Yitzhak Amit, and the CEO is an attorney Orly Ades
In the current round of elections, Judge Yitzhak Amit stood in the eye of the storm, when he disqualified Amichai Shikli from the Likud.
Finally, contrary to Amit's ruling, the High Court approved Shikli's challenge.
Judge Yitzhak Amit.
Almost prevented Amichai Shikli from tackling, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
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right to vote - the basic right of every citizen who is 18 years old to participate in elections and vote at the ballot box.
All voters must show up at the polling station to which they belong with an ID card in order to exercise their right.
The number of those with the right to vote reaches 6,788,804 - an increase of 210,720 new voters.
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Bader Ofer Law - a law enacted many years ago and named after its initiators, MKs Avraham Ofer of the Alignment and Yochanan Bader Meharut. The law gives an advantage to the major parties in the distribution of the mandates remaining to be distributed after the first distribution of the mandates.
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mandate - the number of votes that a list must receive in the elections in order to win the representation of one MK in the Knesset. In the elections for the 24th Knesset, the measure for the mandate was 36,210.83 votes. This calculation was made by dividing the number of kosher votes of the parties that participate in the distribution of mandates by 120 Chem.
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double envelopes - the double envelopes is the voting method for those who have the right to vote who for certain reasons are not near the original ballot box defined for them in the voter register.
Among these, one can name IDF soldiers serving in bases far from their homes, Israeli diplomats working in Israeli embassies and missions around the world, prisoners, hospitalized in hospitals, women staying in various defense dormitories, and starting from the 23rd election, police officers are also entitled to vote in double envelopes away from their homes.
IDF soldiers vote in the double envelopes,
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inspectors to the purity of the elections - their role is to be present at all the polling stations and to warn of cases of unusual events.
After the polls are locked, they will film the entire voting process.
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Election polls - In the months before the elections, the television, radio and press channels use research institutes to conduct public opinion polls about the results of the elections.
The election law establishes clear rules that oblige the institutes to indicate how many people were contacted in the poll, how many responded positively and how many refused, what is the margin of error in the results, etc.
In the three days before the elections, it is forbidden to conduct polls.
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Voters' register - a register published by the Ministry of the Interior and including the names of all those who have the right to participate in the elections.
A white ballot
- the white ballots in the ballot box are intended to be used as a substitute for party ballots that are missing from the ballot box, and on which the voters may write the letters of the party they support.
The law states that members of the polling committee must reject ballots with other words or gibberish written on them.
At Israel's embassies abroad, voters receive white slips of paper and write on them the sign of the list they support.
monitor the votes of the voters,
Floating votes - a nickname for the votes of citizens who, until the last moment before the elections, still had not decided which party to support
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Usually the percentage of floating votes ranges from 15% to 25%.
Ballot
box - made of corrugated cardboard (in the past it was made of wood or metal) and placed behind a curtain in the voting halls on election day.
Next to her is a tray with the ballots of all the lists competing in the elections.
Before the opening of the election process, the chairman of each polling committee is required to open the box from the bottom and show all members of the polling committee that it is empty. After that, the box is locked with a special lock and opened again only after the polls close, and the counting of votes begins.
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Rotation in the leadership of the Prime Minister - introduced in Israel for the first time after the elections in 1984.
When the Likud and the Alignment failed to form a government, they were forced to form a joint government in which first Shimon Peres served as Prime Minister and then Yitzhak Shamir, for two years each.
After the elections to the 23rd Knesset, Netanyahu and Benny Gantz agreed on a rotation in the prime ministership, but due to the early elections, the agreement did not materialize.
In the elections to the 24th Knesset, Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett did it.
The former chairman of Yamina served first, but after only a year the government fell. Although the baton was passed to Lapid, who serves as the head of the transitional government, but not through the rotation agreement according to which the chairman of Yesh Atid was supposed to serve for two years.
Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir.
The first rotation is registered in their name, photo: Yaakov Sa'ar/Lem
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Propaganda broadcasts - were introduced for the first time on television in 1969.
According to the election law, each list that runs in the elections is entitled to seven minutes of airtime on television and 15 minutes on the radio, in order to address the public directly and try to convince them to support it.
Each party that had representation in the outgoing Knesset receives an additional two minutes on television and four minutes on the radio for each member of the Knesset.
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