About
This tool compares your answers with documented party positions. It never tells you who to vote for.
Every position cites a source and states a confidence. A high confidence means the party said it; a low one means it was read off a record, and the figure is shown per position so you can tell which you are looking at. Positions can still be out of date or miss a disagreement inside a party — several parties here are recent mergers whose two halves do not agree on everything, and where that is true the position says so rather than splitting the difference.
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How the score is calculated
For each question where you gave an answer and the party has a documented position, we compare which side each of you is on. Same side counts +1, opposite sides -1, and if either of you is neutral it counts 0. How strongly you answered does not change the match — it sets how much the question counts: a "strongly agree" weighs double an "agree", a neutral answer weighs least. Each question is also weighted by how well documented the party's position is. The total is divided by the sum of those weights, giving an agreement level from -100 to +100, where 0 means the questions you answered pull you toward that party no more than away from it.
Agreement levels are rounded to a whole point, never to a decimal. The underlying codings are confidence-weighted judgements, many inferred rather than quoted, and a figure like 87.3% would claim a precision the data does not have.
When a position is unknown
Where a party has no documented stance, or is genuinely divided internally, the position is recorded as unknown and the question does not count for that party. That leaves parties compared over different numbers of questions, which is not neutral: an average taken over 22 questions swings further than one taken over 40, so a thinly-documented party lands at the top of a ranking by chance more often than it should. To correct for that, a party's agreement level is pulled slightly toward zero in proportion to how much less evidence stands behind it — the best-documented party in your results is never pulled at all. The adjustment cuts both ways: it also stops a thinly-documented party being placed firmly at the bottom.
Why blocs are shown
In Israel, closeness to a party is only half of what a vote decides; the other half is which coalition becomes arithmetically possible. The bloc grouping is an editorial judgement based on stated commitments and past coalitions. It is not a seat forecast, and it is the part of this tool you are most entitled to disagree with.
Known limits
- Positions are provisional, pending double-coding and a party right of reply.
- Source records carry a link but not yet a date or a document type.
- Hebrew and French copy still needs review by native speakers.
- The question set covers major live debates but cannot cover everything a Knesset decides.