Israel Election Compass 2026

A free, independent Hebrew voting-advice application for the election to Israel's 26th Knesset on 27 October 2026. Voters answer up to 20 yes/no/partly questions and see how closely each of 18 scored lists matches them. Every party position is tied to a primary source with a verbatim quote, and the whole dataset is open.

Take the questionnaire (Hebrew) Open data on GitHub

What is on the site

38 lists filed for the election (38 filed in total), each with its platform by topic, ballot letter, leader, candidates and positions: all lists.
18 lists scored on 20 issues = 360 coded positions; 326 carry a published source with a dated link and quote, 34 are documented silence (searched, nothing found). Comparison table.
831 verified source records, each re-fetched and matched against the live page before publication. Methodology.
Trackers for the things that change during the campaign: ballot letters, disqualification petitions, surplus-vote agreements, and a dated change log.

The 20 issues, and how the 18 scored lists split

Issue (Hebrew page)	For	Against	Partial / no documented position
A Palestinian state alongside Israel	3	13	2
Death penalty for terrorists	6	6	6
Mandatory military draft of yeshiva students, with sanctions	6	8	4
Curbing the Supreme Court (judicial overhaul)	7	6	5
A state commission of inquiry into October 7	8	5	5
Public transport on Shabbat and civil marriage	6	7	5
Continued Israeli security control of Gaza	9	3	6
Lower taxes even at the cost of fewer services	5	5	8
Larger budgets for yeshivas and haredi education	4	7	7
Wider government price controls on basic goods	6	8	4
Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount	3	9	6
Expanding West Bank settlements	10	5	3
A legal term limit for the prime minister	8	6	4
Renewing Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip	3	7	8
Opening the food market to imports, cutting tariffs	4	7	7
Full legal equality for LGBT people, including partnerships	5	6	7
Concessions to the Palestinians for a Saudi peace deal	4	6	8
Mandatory military or civil service for all citizens	6	4	8
Haredi parties in the coalition without a prior draft law	4	7	7
Arab parties in the coalition	3	12	3

How positions are determined

For every list and every issue we look for a public source in a fixed order of precedence: official platform, official policy document, Knesset vote, a direct statement by the list's leader, a direct statement by one of its MKs, and only then a media report. The search is carried out with an AI tool (Anthropic's Claude) under the editor's direction, by the same rules for every list; it may not guess. Either there is a verbatim quote with a link and a date, or the cell is recorded as "no documented position" and scored as the midpoint, never inferred from bloc or ideology. Every quote is verified automatically against the live page. Conflicting top-ranked sources yield "partial". Fairness checks run before every publication: each scored list can reach 100% on its own answer path, leads that path, and no two lists share a row.

Who is behind it

One person: דני, a software developer and entrepreneur, owner of Aidvocate, an AI legal-help assistant. No team, no institutional backing, entirely self-funded; no party membership, campaign role or political funding. The tool never recommends whom to vote for. Full statement (Hebrew).

Data and citation

Positions (CSV and JSON) and all source records are published under CC BY 4.0 (license) at /data and in the GitHub repository, which includes a reference implementation of the matching score. Suggested citation: Matzpen HaBechira 2026 (bhirot26.online), data version 2026-10-18. Corrections and questions: through Aidvocate.

The questionnaire, party pages and issue pages are in Hebrew. Data version: 2026-10-18.