Call the Knesset

Highest points wins. You score on four things.

Seats. 120 minus your seats misplaced. Take the gap between your call and the real result for each list, add them up and halve it.

Exact calls. 3 points for every party you call to the exact seat, 1 point for every party within one seat.

Turnout. Up to 10 points. You lose 2 for every point you are off.

Coalition. Settles when the government is sworn in, which can be weeks after the vote. 15 points for the right prime minister’s party, 5 for every party you named that joins, minus 3 for every one that does not. It never goes below zero. Skip the coalition and you score zero here. You can split Together into Bennett and Lapid, or UTJ into Degel HaTorah and Agudat Yisrael, to let one half join without the other. Each half is worth its share of the party, 4 sevenths for Bennett and Degel and 3 sevenths for Lapid and Agudat, so splitting never earns extra.

Ties break in this order: fewer seats misplaced, calling which bloc reaches 61 correctly, calling which lists pass the threshold, then turnout.

The Netanyahu bloc here means Likud, Shas, UTJ, Religious Zionism-Zehut, Otzma Yehudit and Amcha Yisrael. The opposition means Yashar, Together, the Democrats and Yisrael Beytenu. Same blocs as the coalition builder.

Your email is used to confirm your call and to send game updates. Newsletter emails only come if you leave the box ticked. Nobody sees your email. Other players see your nickname on the public board unless you untick the box, and see picks only after the polls close on election night. We hide the crowd average until then so it cannot work as a poll during the publication ban.

Calls lock Monday 26 October at 23:59 Israel time. Picks are changed only through the link sent to the same inbox. This is a game. There are no prizes and no money.