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Israel elects its parliament through nationwide proportional representation.
Citizens aged eighteen and older vote for a party, not a candidate,
and the number of seats in the Knesset that a party gets corresponds to the percentage of votes they receive.
Before the election, parties submit lists of prospective members of the Knesset.
To enter the Knesset, a party must receive at least 3.25 percent of the national vote, which is equivalent to four seats.

Israel’s Election: Who’s Who and What’s at Stake? | Council on Foreign Relations
Israel’s October 27 election could reshape the country’s political landscape, but neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s allies nor the opposition has a clear path to a governing majority. The outcome of the vote could determine not only who leads Israel, but how the country contends with various domestic and foreign policy concerns.

Personally I don't buy it that these riots are spontaneous, by "the people". There are parties involved who have an interest in creating this...
They tried this in the Netherlands too, it largely failed until now, just some arrests.
#germany #netherlands #riots

Benjamin Netanyahu has been accused of using smear tactics to cling to power, after he claimed that Arab Israeli parties had used foreign backing to “steal” Tuesday’s election, in which the prime minister’s coalition lost its parliamentary majority.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/29/israeli-leader-netanyahu-accused-of-using-ugly-smear-tactics-to-cling-to-power?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

HONORIA:
A Fortuitous Friendship
by Janice Shapiro
#GraphicNovel about a girl who spends the summer with Honoria, the daughter of Sara and Gerald Murphy, who invented the literary "summer on the Riviera" in the 1920s, witnessing endless parties with such luminaries as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Picasso and Dorothy Parker
But first this anecdote about an #accordion 🪗
1/3
#literature #art #comics

The political scene in Israel is painfully racist: Netanyahu urges votes by warning that Arab citizens are voting. Einsenkot won't commit to even working with Arab parties.

“It’s hard to miss the parallel to the 1960s — the last time a generation discovered psychedelics at the exact moment society was coming apart around them, and technology was accelerating in leaps nobody could fully comprehend. 
But it also raises the question: Which 1960s are we returning to? The therapeutic ’60s, when Sandoz Laboratories distributed LSD-25 free to researchers and a thousand papers on its psychiatric benefits were published before the door slammed shut? The recreational ’60s, when author Ken Kesey hosted LSD-soaked parties around San Francisco known as “Acid Tests”? Or some third ’60s most people have forgotten — the one I argue actually mattered. It is the ’60s whose absence, more than anything else, explains what is wrong with Silicon Valley today.”
https://sfstandard.com/2026/10/13/silicon-valley-psychedelics-sixties-genius/

What I didn't include in last week's piece on the frontier labs' security flubs is that several experts complained about the lack of transparency that third parties such as METR have exhibited.
They were skeptical that METR evaluations were the right approach to fixing the security oversights.
https://www.ft.com/content/a3a389d2-7796-4f40-98d3-8986f26f6513
My piece last week: https://www.csoonline.com/article/4234854/ai-agents-arent-going-rogue-frontier-labs-are-skipping-security-basics.html

Mairav Zonszein in the New York Times calling out the across-the-board exclusion of Palestinian parties (even citizens elected to the Knesset) from their coalitions in Israel.
The anti-Netanyahu block could literally fail over this.

RE: #Alaska #Sullivan #election #symbols #India