Additional information about gender quotas

Israel uses the system of List Proportional Representation (List PR) and the voters in the elections vote only for a political party and not for the political parties’ candidates. Reserving places for women in the political parties’ lists assures that women candidates will have more chances to be elected. Women compete (in primaries or in party convention) for their place on the party list against all of the other candidates, both men and women. The reserved places mechanism is implemented only if women do not attain the reserved positions or higher ones. For example: A Political Party has reserved the 10th place for a woman in its candidate list. If the first woman-candidate in this Political Party is elected (in primaries) to the 12th place, the reserved places mechanism is implemented, and she is promoted to the 10th place on the list. But if the female candidate is elected to the 8th place, the candidate retains this seat won through primary elections.

In 2021, 29 women were elected. The number of women in parliament increased to 34 after the formation of the new government in June (IPU, 2021).