You vote by picking one slip of paper
No name to write, no box to tick. You take the slip with your list’s Hebrew letters on it, seal it in the envelope you were handed, and drop it in the box. Four minutes, start to finish.
- Election day
- Tue 27 Oct 2026
- One day, no early voting
- Most stations
- 07:00 – 22:00
- Small and special stations vary
- Bring
- Photo ID
- ID card, passport or licence
- Work
- Paid day off
- Election day is a national holiday
This is a petek
White paper, business-card size. Big letters, the Hebrew name in small type underneath, and nothing else. This one is Likud.
Learn your letters before you go. Some codes differ by one character, and the trays are not in an order that helps you.
Walk through it, in order
Go to the station printed on the voter notice you got in the mail. Only that station has your name on its roll. Hand the committee an original ID card, passport or driving licence, and they cross you off the list.
Three ways to waste it
- Two different lists in one envelope. Thrown out, and neither list gets the vote. Two identical slips count once.
- Anything written on the slip. A tick, a name, a note. A marked slip is disqualified, so keep your pen in your bag.
- A loose slip, or an empty envelope. Without its envelope a slip is not a vote, and an empty envelope counts for nobody.
If a tray is empty, ask the committee for a blank official slip and write the letters by hand. That one counts.
You cannot vote from abroad
Israel has no postal ballot, no absentee ballot and no consulate voting. If you are outside the country on 27 October, your vote does not happen. The only exceptions are diplomats posted overseas, their families, and Israeli seamen.
This is why turnout here is counted among people who are physically home, and why flights back fill up the week before an election.
The fine print
Soldiers vote at military stations over several days beforehand, and mobile committees cover hospitals, care homes and prisons. Station addresses, hours and accessible stations come from the Central Elections Committee, and its ruling is the one that counts on the day.