Allowable individual contributions to the election campaign were increased from NIS 1,700 to NIS 10,000, totaling not more than NIS 7.5m per candidate. Parties without prime ministerial candidates are entitled to NIS 338,000 per MK to pay for campaigning in support of a candidate. Any candidate who earns less than 8 percent of the vote will have to pay back all the funds, and those receiving up to 15 percent will have to pay back half. All citizens aged 18 or older on election day are eligible to vote. The voter registry will be updated accordingly.
Election day is a holiday in order to enable all to participate.
Voting will take place at 7,800 polling stations. Soldiers and policemen on active duty vote in special polling stations in their units. Special arrangements have also been made for prison inmates to vote, as well as for those confined to hospital. Women living in shelters for abused women will, for their own protection, be allowed to vote in special ballots away from their hometowns. Israeli law does not provide for absentee ballots, and voting takes place only on Israeli soil.