Over 12,000 polls are open across the country to allow 6,788,804 eligible Israeli voters to cast their ballots for the 25th Knesset.
Most doors open at 7 a.m. and will close at 10 p.m., though they allow voters who enter before the cut-off to cast their ballots. Some rural centers and specialty polls open an hour later, at 8 a.m.
Israeli citizens age 18 and up on election day may vote.
Immigrants who complete their citizenship registration at least 60 days before today are also eligible to vote, including about 45,000 new Israelis who arrived by the end of August this year.
Israel does not allow absentee voting. Only the about 4,500 Israelis posted abroad as diplomats, representatives of other government ministries, the military and police and their families were able to vote beyond the borders of the state. They completed this process on October 20.
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