Elections in Israel are now 100 days away. I wanted to describe the current situations here. But before that I wanted to give a high level view of the parties and where I stand.

Israel has mostly a single political arena: the national, with a parliament of a single house, the Knesset. It has 120 seats. Elections are proportional representation, that is: parties set lists of candidates and citizens elect those lists.

There are currently two major blocks of parties: current coalition: supporters of Netanyahu. They currently hold 68/120 seats, however polls[1] predict that they'll have around 50/120 seats and not hold a majority. I'm not part of this block.

(There are potentially some parties that try to live in the space between the blocks. Their fate is not clear right now. I hope they'll eventually fade away, but currently this is just my hope. I'm not there)

The other major block is the opposition to Netanyahu. I'll try to give a brief picture of its composition.

Current polls predict currently a total of some 10/120 to the so-called "Arab" parties. This designates two or more parties. One of them (United Aram List, not to be confused with a potential Joint List) may be in the future coalition, other(s) are not likely. Parties in this space may yet join. The number of votes they get also depends on the turn up rates in the Arab population that is currently unpredictable. But I'm not part of that sub-block, So let's zoom in elsewhere.

Now we are left with the main opposition block. Currently four parties that are likely to form the next coalition. The two larger ones, with currently predicted more than 15/120 seats, are Yashar ("straight"), headed by Gadi Eisenkot, and Together, headed by Naftali Bennett. Both are new parties that are now mostly forming their organizations. Hopefully they'll manage to stick together. I'm not there.

To their right is Yisrael Beiteinu ("Israel our home") of Avigdor Liberman) that is somewhat fascist, but devout secular and will stick with some of the liberal values. Polls predict roughly 10/120. I'm not there.

And finally we get to where I am: The Democrats. The left-most part of that block. Polls predict some 10/120. We need to work to get more than that. Currently only party of the four that has set peace and end of conflict as a goal.

[1] Polls are always something to be taken with a grain of salt. Results of polls has been quite stable since the early days of the government about the composition of the major blocks. The content of them changed and I tend to trust those numbers less.

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