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Most countries only have a small handful of parties who make it into the legislature, and usually only two who could conceivably end up controlling the executive. This time around, Israel has four parties who could conceivably end up with a ruling coalition, 19 parties being polled for Knesset seats, nine additional parties of note who have not yet announced their intentions for the election, and numerous subfactions within those parties. Today, I am going to clear the confusion. In this article I will be going through each party, their history, their ideology, their platform, their internal factions, and their election prospects. Here we go: