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Close to a million Israeli adults will be out of the country on Election Day next week – almost 15 percent of the total number of eligible voters. With Israeli election law forbidding voting from abroad, a large chunk of the population cannot cast a ballot.

Dr. Nir Atmor, political scientist at Safed Academic College, takes Host Gilad Halpern through the history of this provision, and says that unlike other democracies, Israel hasn’t changed it for political reasons.