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Today's Elections
By Micah Halpern

Tuesday February 10, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

It's Election Day in Israel.
Of the 33 parties running for the 120 seat parliament, only about 11 will succeed and be seated in the Israeli Knesset.

In this election there are:
5,278,985 people are registered to vote
9263 polling stations
7am is when the polling stations open and 10pm is when they close
When Machiavelli said "politics make strange bedfellows" he might have had a premonition about Israeli politics.
The Holocaust Survivor Party has merged with the Cannabis Party.

Voting is not mechanical in Israel, it is much simpler. There are neither computers nor machines. There is no curtain. A corrugated board stands on a desk separating the voter from curious observers.
The Israeli voter selects a small sheet of paper that looks a lot like Monopoly money, inserts it into an envelope and then walks over to a blue box with slit on top and a 7 branched menorah on the side and drops the envelope inside.
The papers are not imprinted with the names of the various parties, they display the letters that symbolize each party. It can get confusing.

This will be the 18th Knesset.
It is a historic time in Israel's history.

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4 June 2017 12:13 PM in Thoughts


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