Talk:Elections in Israel

New Link For News 12 Poll
Mako Should Be Added Here> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_Israeli_legislative_election#Polls

Local elections
I'm thinking about creating a page devoted to the local elections, but I'm trying to find a template for this elsewhere in the wikipedia. Does anybody know of one?

In particular, the Ra'anana mayoral race interests me, and could use an "upcoming election" page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dsadinoff (talk • contribs)

First two letters of Cannabis
The first entry in the table on ballot letters ... quite surprised me. Is this for real, or just vandalism? --KarlFrei (talk) 21:36, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * For real and quite logical. --Shuki (talk) 07:01, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

merge from voting in Israel
✅--Metallurgist (talk) 11:54, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Support - A short surf through other countries' elections articles and cats reveals that the 'Elections in ___' is the standard template. On the other hand, I think that I would support changing the name of the Ballot letters page to 'Voting in Israel'. --Shuki (talk) 07:01, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - No need for two articles on the same topic.--Gilabrand (talk) 07:16, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Support - Ill get on it shortly.--Metallurgist (talk) 06:46, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Next one
So when is the next one going to be? Is there a timetable yet, or a deadline? 70.99.104.234 (talk) 21:45, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
 * It will have to be by 2013, but given Israeli political history, could happen at any time between now and then. Number   5  7  09:08, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

link dump
explains a lot of process.--Metallurgist (talk) 21:50, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

"nationwide proportional elections"
Should make it clearer that this means that there is no geographical component to Israeli parliament elections -- the whole country is effectively one big consituency. This might not be obvious to non-Israelis... AnonMoos (talk) 13:21, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Links
>> New Israeli law kills minority representation(Lihaas (talk) 19:45, 11 March 2014 (UTC)).

Who can vote?
Do Palestinians vote? How do you get the right to vote? How do you lose it? It should be explained, since in these case it isn't clear if there is equallity among inhabitants or not in the law or in practice (women, Palestinians, diaspora Jews, Black people, People in Gaza, etc.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.90.226.119 (talk) 13:51, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * All citizens of Israel may vote, including Palestinian citizens of Israel. I don't know what the voting age is, although I suspect it is 18.  I also don't know how one loses the franchise; for example by being convicted of a felony as is the practice in some parts of the United States.  Speaking generally, Palestinian Arabs who were on the "Israeli side" of the 1949 armistice lines and their descendants are citizens.  Palestinian Arabs who were in the West Bank and Gaza, or who had left the territory entirely, during the 1948-49 war, did not become citizens.  Palestinian Arab residents of the West Bank and Gaza were not granted citizenship following the 1967 war.  I believe the franchise may have been extended to some or all Palestinian Arab residents of East Jerusalem following the 1967 war, but I am not sure of that.  Diaspora Jews who are not citizens of Israel cannot vote.  There is no absentee voting; one must be physically present in the country on election day in order to vote.  Women may vote.  I don't believe there are any religious restrictions on women voting, but I would imagine that it would be in the interest of religious factions for women in those factions to vote, since it would increase their share of the electorate.  Since I am not sure of all the facts listed above, I am not t urning this into an edit of the page itself.  Others with more precise knowledge, please chime in and perhaps edit the main page.  Gharlane (talk) 03:47, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
 * https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution
 * About 64% of adults living under Israeli rule are actually allowed to vote. GeoSample (talk) 23:09, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Does that include Area A? Area B? This is not so clear cut. Additionally, citizens of the State of Palestine, one would think, would be voting in Palestinian elections, and citizens of the State of Israel would vote in Israeli elections. Also, that "64%" seems to be somewhat of an exaggeration given that there are 4.92 million citizens of the State of Palestine 9.36 million citizens of the State of Israel. Even if every single Palestinian citizen lived in Area C (and they don't), and even if every single one of the peoples in both states was of age to vote (they aren't, and generally speaking, the average Palestinian age is younger than that of Israel), that would still mean only 34% couldn't vote. That's the worst case scenario, and the real number is likely quite a bit lower than 34%. How HRW gets 64% is beyond me. Actually, looking at your source, they don't even claim that, as far as I can tell. You seem to have come up with that on your own. --OuroborosCobra (talk) 02:00, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

A quibble re ballot letters
Hebrew and Arabic do not have "perfectly corresponding" character sets. Arabic has more letters than Hebrew does. Some Arabic letters that do not exist in Hebrew (and are also sometimes very difficult to transliterate into the Latin character set include dad (ض), ghayin (غ), za (ظ), and dhal (ذ).  Hebrew letters can correspond to more than one Arabic letter, e.g., the Hebrew root זבח, having to do with sacrificing and/or slaughtering, is cognate to Arabic ذ ب ح and not ز ب ح.  As I say, it's a quibble, since it's fairly easy to just "decree" certain correspondences by fiat for these purposes, which is probably what happened.  Gharlane (talk) 04:06, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Update Netanyahu vs. Lapid
This article says that new polls have been conducted in the PM-Direct election category. 42.109.240.35 (talk) 04:36, 24 May 2021 (UTC)