While the polls reported over recent weeks generally carry results pertaining to about 11 parties, in actuality there are many more parties running for Knesset, in actuality, 26 in total. While most will not meet the minimum 3.25% threshold, which translates to sufficient votes for four seats, many of them will draw votes from other parties.
The list of parties:
1. Arab bloc
2. Arab list
3. B’Zechutan – Chareidi Women Making a Change
4. Bayit Yehudi
5. Democratura
6. Green Leaf
7. Green Party
8. Hope for Change
9. Kulanu
10. Labor/The Movement
11. Light
12. Likud
13. Meretz
14. Perach – Shefa, Bracha, Chaim Veshalom
15. Protecting Our Children
16. Rent with Honor
17. Shas
18. Social Leadership
19. The (Temporary) National Team
20. The Economics Party Chaired by the Goldstein Brothers
21. The Pirates
22. We Are All Friends
23. Yachad
24. Yahadut Hatorah
25. Yesh Ati
26. Yisrael Beitenu
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It sounds bad, but America has the same thing. Every presidential election has hundreds of candidates. It takes about five minutes to sign up. The whole thing is a joke.
It’s beautiful. Given our single member districts, there are only two serious parties and a few minor independents. The last change in the leading parties was in 1856. And it turns out most Americans express the view that they don’t support either party. Israelis get to choose from many parties representing their own specific view, and to have that view tested in the election. It’s a very inefficient way to choose a government in a parliamentary system, but its very democractic (lower case “d”).
IF # 19 ,20, 21 and 22 would have join it would be
The National Economic Pirates
“We Are All Friends”
by Goldstein & Goldstein
#2
Proportional representation is inherently an unstable form of Gov’t.
Ask the french
They’re already on their Fifth Republic
Or ask the Italians
More than 60 governments in barely 70 years
Or the governments of inter bellum Europe.
Most collapsed and ended in dictatorships
The process is that you take one of the sheets from the blue box and put the ticket into an envelope and seal it. From what I saw, there is one party that will have less sheets left than anyone else, yet won’t make it into the knesset.
It the 2nd from the left and the send from the left of the full rows. It’s the ףצ party, though you see it as פצ in the picture from the last election. I guess they changed it from all the jokes they got over it. It is the נ נח party.