Election Compass 2026 – compare the parties' positions
Most voters choose a party on general impression rather than on what it actually said about the issues they care about. Ahead of the election to Israel's 26th Knesset on 27 October 2026, we built <a href="https://bhirot26.online/">Election Compass 2026</a> — a free, independent Hebrew tool for comparing party positions across 20 major issues, checking the source behind each one, and reading about the candidates.
What the tool does
You answer up to 20 questions — yes, no, or partly if your view sits in the middle — and get the parties closest to your positions, as a percentage. The questions are the ones that actually divide the field: Haredi conscription, the judicial overhaul, a Palestinian state, the death penalty for terrorists, and religion and state. You can skip any question, and it counts neither for nor against any party. The calculation runs in your browser: answers are never sent to a server and never stored.
Why the data can be checked, not just trusted
What separates this from other compasses is that every position links to a source you can open: an official platform, a policy document, a Knesset vote, a quoted statement by a party leader or member, and only failing those a news report. Each source shows its date, a link to the page itself, a verbatim quote, and when it was last confirmed still to say that. Where a party has never taken a position, the tool says so explicitly rather than guessing. The <a href="https://bhirot26.online/methodology">methodology page</a> sets out the order of precedence and what happens when sources conflict, and <a href="https://bhirot26.online/data">the data itself is open to download</a>. The site is in Hebrew.
What it does not do
It does not recommend who to vote for and does not rank parties by quality. It measures closeness between your answers and party positions across twenty questions, and nothing more — a closeness percentage does not mean you agreed with that share of a platform. It is not a poll and not a forecast. It is not affiliated with any party and takes no political funding. A list is only ranked when its position on all twenty issues could be established from public sources.
FAQ
- Is the Election Compass free?
- Yes. It is completely free, requires no registration and collects no identifying details. The matching runs in your browser and your answers are never sent to a server.
- How is a party's position decided?
- By a fixed order of sources: official platform, policy document, Knesset vote, party leader statement, member statement, and only failing those a news report. Every position shows its source with a date, a link and a verbatim quote.
- What if a party never said anything about an issue?
- The tool says so. That cell is marked as having no documented position rather than being guessed from the party's general orientation, and the site records what was searched and when.
- Does it tell me who to vote for?
- No. It measures closeness between your answers and party positions. It does not rank parties by quality and does not recommend a vote.