Composition and Election of the Sanhedrin

Structure and Term of Office

• The Sanhedrin will consist of 72 members elected personally and directly by the citizens of Yehodaya.
• A member of the Sanhedrin will serve a term of six years.
• Each member may serve only one term. The term cannot be extended, and a former member may never be elected again.
• Elections to the Sanhedrin will be held every two years, with one third of its seats - 24 seats - contested in each election.

Division of the State into Electoral Districts

• To ensure regional representation and a direct relationship between voters and their representatives, Yehodaya will use a district-based electoral system.
• The state will be divided into five permanent geographical districts: North, South, East, West, and Center.
• The number of the Sanhedrin’s 72 seats allocated to each district will be proportional to the number of citizens registered there. This allocation will be based on current information from the national digital population registry, determined through residence records maintained by the local authorities, without requiring special population censuses.
• The allocation of seats will be updated automatically before every election. However, every permanent district will be guaranteed at least one representative in the Sanhedrin, regardless of its population.

Division into Subdistricts - Preventing Concentration

• To prevent excessive concentration and keep candidate lists manageable for voters, no electoral area may elect more than 12 representatives in total and therefore no more than four representatives in any biennial election.

• A district whose population entitles it to more than 12 seats will automatically be divided into subdistricts.

• Subdistricts will be created exclusively by a politically blind algorithm operated by the Central Elections Committee.

• The algorithm will divide the geographical area of the district according to only three objective criteria, in the following order of priority:

  1. Demographic Equality: Each subdistrict will contain as nearly as possible the same number of citizens, with a maximum deviation of 2 percent.
  2. Geographical Continuity: Each subdistrict must form a continuous geographical area without enclaves.
  3. Spatial Compactness: Preference will be given to the most geographically compact boundaries possible, to prevent political gerrymandering.

No political authority, including the Sanhedrin or the President, may intervene in, alter, or approve the subdistrict boundaries determined by the algorithm.

Candidates and Ballots

• A citizen seeking to stand for election in an electoral district must satisfy the eligibility conditions established by law, including age, citizenship, and the absence of a criminal record, and must obtain a minimum number of supporting signatures from registered voters in that district.
• Voters may establish political parties or organizations to bring candidates together under a common ideological platform and present party-affiliated candidate lists within the electoral districts.
• The state will not intervene in the registration of political parties, except to enforce the constitutional rule prohibiting such organizations from being used to obtain targeted benefits, subsidies, or privileges for any sector at the expense of the public as a whole.
• Political parties in Yehodaya will serve solely as ideological platforms.