From the ballot box to the government, how are the Knesset elections going? (Box) Voters elect 120 members of the Knesset, while forming a government requires the confidence of at least 61 representatives. The number of eligible voters is about 7.3 million people out of a total population of more than 10 million. - Israel uses a proportional representation system and operates in a single-district system, where the determining rate for entering the Knesset is 3.25 percent of the kosher party's votes. After the elections, the head of state assigns a member of the Knesset to form the government, and the latter must gather a majority of 61 deputies to gain confidence. All Israeli governments to date have formed coalitions, and the prime minister has not always been the leader of the largest party.

From the ballot box to the government, how are the Knesset elections going? (Box) Voters elect 120 members of the Knesset, while forming a government requires the confidence of at least 61 representatives. The number of eligible voters is about 7.3 million people out of a total population of more than 10 million. - Israel uses a proportional representation system and operates in a single-district system, where the determining rate for entering the Knesset is 3.25 percent of the kosher party's votes. After the elections, the head of state assigns a member of the Knesset to form the government, and the latter must gather a majority of 61 deputies to gain confidence. All Israeli governments to date have formed coalitions, and the prime minister has not always been the leader of the largest party.