以色列大部分投票站于10月27日星期二上午7点开放，进行第26届议会选举，投票计划持续至晚上10点。部分投票站将实行较短的开放时间。
Most polling stations in Israel opened at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 27, for the election for the 26th Knesset, with voting scheduled to continue until 10 p.m. Some stations will operate on shorter schedules.
根据以色列中央选举委员会截至9月6日的数据，约有733万以色列人有资格投票，比四年前的上一次大选增加了543,177人。
Some 7.33 million Israelis are eligible to vote, according to Israeli Central Elections Committee figures dated Sept. 6, an increase of 543,177 since the previous election four years ago.
该委员会列出了全国12,018个常规投票站，其中包括6,208个无障碍投票站。
The committee listed 12,018 regular polling stations nationwide, including 6,208 accessible stations.
这将是以色列自2023年10月7日哈马斯领导的大屠杀以来的首次大选。
It will be the country’s first general election since the Hamas-led massacre on Oct. 7, 2023.
据以色列中央选举委员会称，约有33万年轻以色列人首次参与投票。
Some 330,000 young Israelis are casting ballots for the first time, according to Israel’s Central Elections Committee.
委员会代理总干事迪恩·利夫内（Dean Livne）表示：“这是以色列民主的庆典。”
“This is a celebration of Israeli democracy,” said Dean Livne, the committee’s acting director-general.
他的声明接着表示，数千名委员会员工一直在努力确保每位选民都能“轻松且毫无恐惧地”投票。
Thousands of committee employees had worked to ensure every voter could cast a ballot “easily and without fear,” his statement continued.
委员会还警告称，谣言和虚假信息可能会在当天在网络上流传。它敦促公众在分享报告、图片和视频之前，先核实其来源和背景。
The committee also warned that rumors and misinformation may circulate online during the day. It urged the public to check the source and context of reports, images and videos before sharing them.
以色列的选举日是国家法定假日，学校、幼儿园和大多数工作场所预计都将关闭。
Election Day in Israel is a national holiday, with schools, kindergartens and most workplaces expected to close.
选民选择政党名单，而不是直接选举总理。政党名单必须获得至少3.25%的有效选票才能进入议会。
Voters choose party lists rather than directly electing a prime minister. Lists must receive at least 3.25% of valid votes to enter the Knesset.
军队投票已于10月21在以色列国防军位于加沙、黎巴嫩和叙利亚等作战区域的基地和哨所开始。
Military voting began on Oct. 21 at Israel Defense Forces bases and outposts across operational arenas, including in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria.
据以军称，已部署了850多个投票站（其中许多是流动投票站），投票将根据作战需求一直持续到选举日。
More than 850 polling stations, many of them mobile, were deployed, according to the IDF, with voting continuing through Election Day subject to operational requirements.
在海外服务的符合条件的以色列外交官及其家属已于10月15日开始投票。总统伊萨克·赫尔佐格出席了投票在以色列驻阿塞拜疆巴库大使馆的启动仪式，称这次选举是“民主的庆典”，并敦促公民投票。
Eligible Israeli diplomats serving abroad and their family members began voting on Oct. 15. President Isaac Herzog attended the opening of voting at Israel’s embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, calling the election “a celebration of democracy” and urging citizens to vote.
赫尔佐格周一晚间呼吁公民在全国大选中投票，敦促他们“行使民主权利，影响国家未来”。赫尔佐格在发布于网上的视频中表示：“选举日是以色列民主的庆典。这是人民的日子。”
Herzog on Monday night called on citizens to vote in the national election, urging them to “exercise your democratic right to influence the future of the state.”“Election day is a celebration of Israeli democracy. This is the people’s day,” Herzog said in a video posted to Proportional representation Israeli democracy is based on a parliamentary system of proportional representation.
比例代表制 以色列民主建立在议会比例代表制系统之上。这意味着以色列公民不直接投票选举总理或地区代表。他们投票给在单一全国选区参选的政党，立法机构——议会——拥有120个席位。
This means that Israeli citizens do not vote directly for a prime minister or district representatives. They vote for a party that runs in a single, nationwide constituency, where the legislative body—the Knesset—has 120 seats.
投给一个政党就是投给该政党的议会候选人名单。120个议会席位根据各政党获得的得票数按比例分配。因此，如果单一政党赢得50%的有效选票，它将获得60个议会席位。
A vote for a party is a vote for a list of Knesset candidates. The 120 Knesset seats are divided proportionally to the number of votes that each party wins. Thus, if a single party won 50% of the valid votes, it would secure 60 Knesset seats.
从未有政党赢得过多数选票，因此每届政府都由多个政党组成的执政联盟组建。
No party has ever won a majority of the votes, so every government has been formed by a coalition of parties.
此外，政党必须获得至少3.25%的有效选票才能进入议会；投给未达到这一选举门槛的政党的选票将被废弃。
In addition, parties must receive at least 3.25% of the valid votes to enter the Knesset; votes cast for parties that fail to reach this electoral threshold are discarded.
挑选总理 尽管通常最大政党的领导人会成为总理，但情况并非总是如此。法律规定，以色列总统指定最有希望组建执政联盟的议会议员承担组建政府的任务。
Choosing a prime minister Although typically the leader of the largest party becomes prime minister, this is not always the case. The law stipulates that the Israeli president designates the member of the Knesset who has the best chance of forming a coalition with the task of forming a government.
被指定的议会议员必须向议会提出拟议的政府及其政策方针，并在就任总理之前赢得议会的批准。
The designated member of Knesset must present the proposed government and its policy guidelines to the Knesset and win its approval before taking office as prime minister.
如果被指定的议会议员无法做到这一点，总统将指定另一名议会议员来尝试。
If the designated member of Knesset is unable to do this, the president designates another member of Knesset to try.
此外，总理在担任政府首脑期间必须拥有议会议席。其他部长则无需是议员。
The prime minister must moreover hold a Knesset seat while serving as the head of the government. Other ministers are not required to be lawmakers.
以色列总统由议会选举产生，任期七年。以色列现任总统伊萨克·赫尔佐格的任期定于2028年7月结束。
The Israeli president is elected by the Knesset for a seven-year tenure. Israel’s current president, Isaac Herzog, is scheduled to end his term in July 2028.
一个多世纪的民主 2019年世界经济论坛的一份排名将以色列列为全球20个历史最悠久的持续民主国家之一。
More than a century of democracy A World Economic Forum ranking from 2019 places Israel among the world’s 20 oldest continuous democracies.
外交部表示，尽管以色列自成立以来面临着“战争、恐怖主义、安全威胁、政治动荡和深刻的社会变革”，但它始终坚定不移地致力于议会民主。
Although since its inception Israel has faced “wars, terrorism, security threats, political upheavals and profound social change,” it has always maintained its commitment to parliamentary democracy, the Foreign Ministry states.
外交部补充说：“以色列的民主诞生于逆境之中。它的持久是以色列最伟大的成就之一。”
“Israel’s democracy was born in adversity. Its endurance is one of the country’s greatest achievements,” it adds.
外交部表示：“犹太人、穆斯林、基督徒和德鲁兹公民，无论来自城市还是乡村、信教还是世俗、来自各种背景和社群，都将[于10月27日]参与同一项民主进程。他们可能对以色列的未来存在深刻分歧，但在决定未来时，每个人都拥有一票相等的权利。”
“Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Druze citizens, from cities and countryside, religious and secular, from every background and community, will participate [on Oct. 27] in the same democratic process. They may disagree profoundly about Israel’s future, but each has an equal vote in determining it,” the ministry says.