 Polling Stations ("Kalfi")
Total Number of Polling Stations: 7,344
7,021 will be set up in voting districts around the country
178 will be set up in the hospitals
42 will be set up in the prisons and detention centers
103 will be set up in the Israeli diplomatic delegations throughout the world for official representatives abroad.
0 will be set up on ships bearing the Israeli flag (there are no ships currently carrying at least 14 Israeli sailors)
Polling Stations Abroad
Those who are entitled to cast their votes at such a station include: Employees of the State serving
in a diplomatic position abroad, employees of the Jewish Agency, the World Zionist Organization,
the Keren Kayemet, and the Keren Hayesod who are positioned abroad as part of their organizational
work, plus their spouses, and their children up to age 20. The number of eligible voters abroad
is 3,132.
The first polling station to open abroad is in Wellington, New Zealand, which opens May 4, 1999 at
8:00 AM. The rest open on May 5, 1999.
The smallest number of eligible voters (2) is at the consular representation in Kinshasa, Congo.
The largest number (320) is in New York.
Polling-Station Committees
Every polling-station committee is comprised of the following individuals: The chairperson, who is a representative
of the Central Elections Committee, and three other members representing the lists running in the
elections. (Which parties sit where and at how many polling stations depends on the parliamentary group
structure of the outgoing Knesset). Representatives of other lists running in the elections may
be present with the committee as official observers.
Number of Eligible Voters
In the Voters Register for the 15th Knesset Elections, there are 4,285,428 names of citizens who have the right to vote.
This number includes new immigrants whose citizenship took effect by the 14th of February 1999, and those citizens who
turn 18 by the date of the elections.
Number of Votes Per Knesset Seat
The exact number of votes per Knesset seat will be determined by the number of valid votes after subtracting
the "lost votes" (votes cast for a list which did not pass the qualifying threshold of 1.5%). In the 1996 elections for
the 14th Knesset, the number of valid votes was 2,973,580. The qualifying threshold was 44,604 votes, and each seat in the Knesset
was worth 24,779 votes.
Voting Slips
The white voting slips, which will be placed in the blue envelopes, will include the identifying
letter and the name of the list. The yellow slips, which are to be placed into the yellow envelopes,
carry the name of the candidate running for Prime Minister.
The Central Elections Committee ordered 110 tons of white paper and 25 tons of yellow paper for the voting slips.
5.5 million white slips were printed in Hebrew, and another 0.5 million were printed in Hebrew and Arabic.
7 million yellow slips were printed in Hebrew with the candidates for Prime Minister, and another million
were printed in Hebrew and Arabic.
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