#6208: Israel's 120-Seat Forecasting Ministry
A windowless office, a serious budget, and one job: forecast Israel's 120-seat Knesset as well as it can be done.
#6204: Two Humans, One Table Each: Calling Israel's Election
No models this time — just two seat-by-seat tables, fifty vs. fifty-nine, and a defector hunt two seats short of a majority.
#6200: What Israeli Election Polls Hide Behind Seat Counts
A new open source tool simulates 100,000 election allocations from a single poll — and shows why "4 seats" is less certain than it sounds.
#6100: Voting From an Embassy: Israel's 4,860-Voter Election
101 polling stations in 99 missions, 4,860 eligible voters, 30 hours of polls rolling west with the sun.
#6091: ישראל בוחרת, חלק ב׳: על מה המפלגות עומדות
רוב המפלגות בישראל לא פרסמו מצע כבר שנים. הנה מה שהן אומרות בפועל שיעשו, והנושאים שבהם הן שותקות.
#6088: What 5,964 Episodes Reveal About One Show
Nearly 6,000 episodes, sorted and mapped. AI and geopolitics spike, then fade — but a third of all "nearest neighbours" cross category lines.
#6085: Israel Votes, Part 5: Rent and Noise, Side by Side
657,000 noise complaints in 2.5 years, 1 in 7 fined — and only one party platform even mentions noise. What the parties actually wrote on rent and ...
#6084: ישראל בוחרת, חלק א׳: מי באמת רץ
שלושים ושמונה רשימות, שני גושים ואחוז חסימה אחד: המפה המלאה של הבחירות לכנסת ב־27 באוקטובר 2026.
#6082: Brazen, Not Fraudulent: Hunting Staycation Deals in Israel
Last-minute staycation hacks for Israel: empty-hotel leverage, the zimmer sites, card and reservist discounts, and Hilbert's laminated rules for asking a hotel for a deal.
#6078: Reading Polymarket's Israel Election Prices
25 live markets, $47M on one question — what the money says about Israel's next prime minister.
#6075: Israel's Pollsters: Who Calls the Race Before You Vote
Nine days out, a tour of Israel's polling culture — the pollsters who matter, the famous misses, and the numbers to watch on election night.
#6073: Israel Votes, Part 4: The Forecast
Three forecasting methods, seven synthetic voters and one prediction for Israel's 27 October election: Yashar 21, Likud 20, and nobody reaches 61.
#6067: Israel's Freedom of Information Law, Explained
Israel's FOI law promises documents in 30 days. So why do ministries lose 88% of the transparency cases brought against them?
#6066: Israel Votes, Part 2: What the Parties Stand For
Most Israeli parties haven't published a platform in years. Here's what they actually say they'll do — and where they stay silent.
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#6065: Israel Votes, Part 3: A Renter's Voting Recommendation
A Jerusalem renter wants to know which party actually helps him. We scored Israel's parties against his views on rent, prices, and daily life.
#6064: Israel Votes, Part 1: Who Is Actually Running
Thirty-eight lists, a first on-time election since 1988, and a ballot full of parties that didn't exist eighteen months ago. Here's the map.
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#5929: Who Believes God Is Personally Involved? The Data on Divine Providence
Three different ideas hide inside "everything happens for a reason" — and the polling on who actually believes God is involved in their life is str...
#5921: Israel's Urgent Care Safety Net: What Broke
A Jerusalem family's two terrifying nights expose the layer beneath the ER — and the doctor shortage behind it.
#5902: Four Tribes, One Ballot: Israel's Coalition Maze
Thirty-eight parties, a 3.25% threshold, and four groups that don't agree on what the country is even for.
#5901: Haredi: How a Word Became a Tribe
The Hebrew means "trembling in awe." The English translation means "beyond the pale." How did one word become a whole society?