10,119 ballot boxes open for 5.9m voters

It’s election day and 10,119 polling stations opened at 7 a.m. across the country. 5,883,365 eligible voters will be able to cast their ballots until 10 p.m., when first exit polls are due.

In small communities with less than 350 residents, polling stations will open at 8 a.m. and remain open until 8 p.m.

2,500 stations will be accessible to disabled persons. 255 polling stations will be placed in hospitals and 27 stations will be placed in prisons.

IDF soldiers voted over the past few days, while Israeli diplomats abroad voted already two weeks ago.

Twenty-five parties are running in the elections for the 20^th Knesset. Eleven of those stand a realistic chance of passing the electoral threshold and making it into the next Knesset.