What you need to know about captive elections.
The polling stations are open from seven in the morning and the eligible citizens have the opportunity to vote until 10 at night local time.
Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot, former Chief of Staff of the IDF, are the two main rivals for the position of Prime Minister.
Polls published on Friday indicate a close contest between Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot.
The Knesset, Israel's captive parliament, has 120 seats, and as a result the government needs 61 seats to have a majority.
The forecasts indicate that no political faction is able to win the necessary seats to form a majority government and a coalition government must be formed.
Forming the next government may take weeks or months.
The main issue of the election system is security and economic issues.
Tonight at 10 o'clock local time, the captive TV will publish the results of the polls, the preliminary results will probably be published tomorrow, and the official results will be published on November 4.