Political Parties

After years in which the percentage of women in the Israeli legislature rose, a decline is being recorded ahead of the upcoming elections. In the next Knesset, as of now, it does not appear there will be a female leader at the head of a major party, and in the Likud there are very few female candidates in realistic spots. In the Arab parties the situation is also not bright, and the ultra-Orthodox...

13 women heading local authorities in Israel signed a petition by the 5050 initiative demanding the alternating placement of women and men on the lists for the Knesset. The appeal comes ahead of the submission of the lists, against the backdrop of large gaps in female representation between the parties.

September 7 is the deadline for submitting party lists to the Knesset, and until that moment, the small parties are in a race against time. They must gain an audience, strengthen their standing in the polls, add well-known names, and answer the central question: do they have enough power to pass the electoral threshold? Alongside the large parties, several smaller political frameworks have been...

The 2026 election campaign has birthed a long list of parties and figures seeking to capture the center of the political map. There are those who call them in polls and newspapers the 'third bloc' — well, that is not the case.

418 thousand votes were lost in the previous elections due to parties that did not pass the electoral threshold. Ahead of the 26th Knesset, the new parties of Erdan and Edelstein, Hendel and Tropper, and also Gantz and Simhi need to learn the lesson.