Overview
- Service members began voting on Wednesday, October 21, with the IDF saying roughly 850 fixed and mobile polling stations are open through the Oct. 27 Knesset election.
- About one-quarter of the stations are mobile units that travel on set schedules to reach troops on missions so personnel do not have to leave their posts to vote.
- The military reports polling locations cover all operational sectors, including Mount Hermon and Eilat and positions in southern Lebanon, Syria and roughly 40 sites in the Gaza Strip.
- Security and integrity measures include locked ballot boxes in transit, double-envelope procedures to verify eligibility, and trained personnel staffing the sites to preserve secret ballots.
- The IDF frames the effort as routine election support, saying it is apolitical and designed to protect soldiers’ voting rights, a practice that can affect turnout and ballot access for deployed personnel.