How to vote

When

• The election to the 26th Knesset will take place on Tuesday, 27 October 2026.
• Most polling stations are open from 07:00 to 22:00.
• In small communities (up to 350 people with the right to vote), hospitals, prisons and care homes, polling stations are open from 08:00 to 20:00.
• Anyone who arrived at the polling station during voting hours may vote even if the queue runs past closing time.

Sources: Central Elections Committee, Central Elections Committee, questions and answers, Knesset Elections Law, section 72

With which ID

At the polling station you identify yourself with one of these documents only:

• Identity card
• Valid driving licence
• Valid passport
• Valid personal military ID of the Israel Defense Forces
• Police officer's ID (only for an officer voting at a polling station other than the one for his or her home area)
• Member of Knesset ID (of the outgoing Knesset only)

You do not need to bring the voter notice.

Source: Central Elections Committee, questions and answers

Where to vote

As a rule, each voter votes only at the polling station where he or she is registered. There are exceptions, for example soldiers, police officers and hospital patients.

The voter notice states the location of the polling station where the voter is registered.

Where do I vote? Check by ID number

The service is in Hebrew. A Ministry of Interior service, to which the Central Elections Committee's site refers. You can also call: 1-800-101975

Sources: Central Elections Committee, questions and answers, Ministry of Interior

Getting to the polling station

To make voting easier, the Knesset arranged free public transport. It applies to trips from one community to another, and back.

• Buses: on intercity lines across the country, a trip longer than 15 km is free, with no payment and no need for ID or a travel card.
• A bus trip of up to 15 km is paid for.
• To Eilat and back, from north of the Arava junction: eligible voters get a dedicated Egged travel card at Egged ticket offices, and must register in advance with Egged's national information centre, by phone *2800 or 03-6948888.
• Trains: the arrangement covers all lines with no distance limit, but a dedicated ticket is needed, available at the service windows or ticket machines at the train stations.
• The arrangement starts on the evening before the election, 26 October 2026 at 20:00, and ends on 27 October 2026, when bus and train service ends.

Information by phone: for bus lines, the national public-transport information centre, *8787. For the train, the railway call centre, *5770.

Source: Central Elections Committee, notice on voter transport eligibility

At the polling station

1. You identify yourself to the secretary of the polling-station committee.
2. You receive a voting envelope and go behind the screen with it.
3. You take one slip only, of the list you have chosen, and put it in the envelope.
4. You come out from behind the screen and drop the envelope into the ballot box in front of the committee members.

The letters of the list are printed on every slip. The letters of the lists on this site are in the table at the end of the page.

• You do not have to seal the envelope.
• Photography is forbidden in the polling station.

Sources: Central Elections Committee, questions and answers, Knesset Elections Law, section 76

When a vote is invalid

A white (blank) slip is for when a list's slips have run out: write the list's letter or letters on it by hand, in blue pen only. A blank slip with nothing written on it is invalid.

More cases in which a vote is invalid, for example when:

• there is a mark on the slip or the envelope that could identify the voter
• there is more than one slip in the envelope (but up to three identical slips count as one vote)
• the slip is not in the form set by the Central Elections Committee
• the envelope is not one of the Central Elections Committee's

Sources: Central Elections Committee, questions and answers, Knesset Elections Law, section 78

The electoral threshold

A list needs at least 3.25% of the valid votes to enter the Knesset.

Sources: Central Elections Committee, about the elections, Knesset Elections Law, section 81

Election day is a day off

• Election day is a day of rest, but transport services and some other public services run as usual.
• An employee who has worked for the employer for at least 14 consecutive days close to election day is paid by the employer for election day, even if he or she did not work on it.
• Employees in services that operate on election day must be given the chance to vote.

Sources: Basic Law: The Knesset, section 10, Central Elections Committee, voter guide, Knesset Elections Law, section 136

Accessible polling stations

• Every community has at least one accessible polling station.
• About 3,620 special accessible polling stations are set up in this election.
• A voter with limited mobility whose own polling station is not accessible may vote at any special accessible polling station. If the disability is not visible, or if the voter has no certificate proving it, a declaration is signed at the polling station.
• You can find the accessible polling stations on the Central Elections Committee's polling-station map.
• Anyone may accompany a voter as far as the polling room.
• Behind the screen, only a voter who is physically unable to vote alone may be accompanied, and only with his or her consent.
• One escort may accompany up to two voters.
• A service animal may enter the polling room.

Sources: Central Elections Committee, voter guide, Central Elections Committee, accessibility in the election, Central Elections Committee, questions and answers, Central Elections Committee, polling-station map

Voting abroad

You cannot vote at Israeli missions abroad, except in the cases the law allows.

The exceptions: state employees (including soldiers) and employees of the Jewish Agency, Keren Kayemet LeIsrael, Keren Hayesod and the World Zionist Organization who are abroad because of their work, and their spouses and children up to age 20 who have the right to vote. They vote at Israeli missions.

Sailors and passengers on an Israeli vessel that the Central Elections Committee has designated for this vote on board, on the 12th day before election day.

Sources: Central Elections Committee, questions and answers, Central Elections Committee, voter guide, Knesset Elections Law, sections 97-99

Ballot letters

These are the lists on this site and the letters printed on each one's slip.

Ballot letters as published by the Central Elections Committee, 04.10.2026

The Central Elections Committee approved more lists than the 14 lists on this site. The full list is on the Committee's site.