Country Profile:

Israel

Description of government structure:

  • Chief of State: President Shimon PERES
  • Head of Government: Prime Minister Ehud OLMERT
  • Assembly: Israel has a unicameral Knesset with 120 seats.

Description of electoral system:

  • The President is elected by the Knesset to serve a 1-year term.
  • In the Knesset 120 members are elected through a party-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms.

Population:

  • Population: 6,276,883 (July 2005 This figure includes about 187,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank, about 20,000 in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, more than 5,000 in the Gaza Strip, and fewer than 177,000 in East Jerusalem )

Past elections

Last Updated on 08/17/2005