Hyderabad, Oct. 27 -- Elections are underway in Israel on Tuesday, October 27, to elect representatives to the country's 120-member parliament, also known as the Knesset. However, the polling is different from Indian parliamentary polls in many ways.

In the Middle Eastern country, voting is conducted using paper ballots, and electors vote for a political party's candidate list rather than directly electing an individual representative from their constituency.

What do Israelis vote for?

In the Israeli elections, the entire country acts as one nationwide electoral constituency.

The voters, who are Israeli citizens at least 18 years old by election day and appear in the electoral register, can choose a party or electoral list, not an ind...