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The Chicken Council found illegally laid eggs
A farm laid forty thousand eggs over its quota. By law an egg without an allocated quota cannot be sold. The farmer came to the studio holding a tray and asked what exactly the hens are guilty of.
Tuesday, 27 October 2026 · Special edition
KNESSET
SIMULATOR
Rehearsal
Israel votes on 27 October 2026. Rehearse first.
Build a coalition out of people who cannot stand each other. Survive a year.
A satirical simulator of Israeli politics. No signup, runs in your browser.
Free: the election, the negotiations and the first 13 weeks of the term. A full term with live lines is $4/mo or $30/yr, cancel any time.
Yashar
דרך · Gadi Eisenkot
Likud
מחל · Bibi Netanyahu
Beyachad
רק · Naftali Bennett & Yair Lapid
Democrats
אמת · Yair Golan
Yisrael Beiteinu
ל · Avigdor Lieberman
United Torah Judaism
ג · Yaakov Asher & Yitzhak Goldknopf
Shas
שס · Aryeh Deri
Joint List
ודם · Yousef Jabareen
Otzma Yehudit
ב · Itamar Ben Gvir
Religious Zionism–Zehut
ט · Bezalel Smotrich & Moshe Feiglin
Amcha Yisrael
ך · Ofer Winter
Raam
עם · Mansour Abbas
Every bar is a real in-game result: a four-seat threshold, 61 for a majority. Yours will come out differently.
Fourteen ballot slips. You can lead four; you will have to bargain with all of them.
seats in the Knesset
needed for a coalition
parties with their own red lines
weeks you have to survive
What actually happens here
The election takes a minute. Then the real thing starts: you go party by party and haggle. Each one wants a ministry, a budget or a law, and almost every demand enrages somebody else at the table. Reached 61 seats? Congratulations, now govern with it for 52 weeks. The promises you handed out come due. Or they do not, and then people come for you.
We barely had to invent anything
The institutions and rules we joke about are real. The politicians and parties are recognisable, but this is parody: their lines, events and storylines are invented.
HAARETZ
Ministry appointments are sold on Telegram. Discount for two
The passport backlog runs to seven hundred thousand applications. Programmers built a bot to catch cancelled slots; scalpers took it over within a week. A slot with a clerk now costs a hundred dollars, with a discount for two.
X/TWITTER
The state sells all its bread to one man
Before Passover the entire chametz of the country is sold to a single non-Jew for a twenty-thousand-shekel deposit. His predecessor was removed when it emerged his grandmother may have been Jewish.
How it plays
- 1
Election
120 seats split between fourteen parties. The threshold is real: somebody will not make it, and that is funny right up until it is you.
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Negotiation
Work the parties, accept or refuse demands. The cabinet preview shows who ends up with Defence — and who you have already offended by promising it.
- 3
The term
52 weeks of events, crises and promises coming due. Partners issue ultimatums with a visible countdown. A government can fall in seven different ways.
Voices at the table
Every leader speaks in their own register. The AI writes their reactions in character, not from a template.
«Twenty years I have been saying it. Twenty. Nice to be right once while still alive.»
Lieberman (Yisrael Beiteinu)«The yeshiva budget is untouched, I hope? Because if it is not...»
Deri (Shas)«A mistake. Tactical.»
Eisenkot (Yashar)Questions people ask
How long is a game?+
A full term runs about an hour. Most governments do not reach the end, so often it is quicker.
Do I need an account?+
Not to play — open it and go. An account unlocks the live lines written for your exact decision: free for the first 13 weeks of the term. After that it is either a subscription, or the game continues on pre-written lines — which were also written by humans.
How much does it cost?+
The election, the negotiations and the first 13 weeks of every term are free, no card needed. Live lines for the whole term, direct messages to the politicians and the article about your government come with a subscription: $4/mo or $30/yr. Cancel any time; within the first 14 days, with a refund.
Which languages?+
English, Russian, Hebrew and Spanish.
Is this about real politicians?+
It's satire and parody of recognisable politicians and parties: the names are real, the lines, events and storylines are invented — none of them ever said or did any of this. The institutions and rules are real, though: the Chicken Council genuinely exists, and that is unfortunately easy to check.
Is it hard?+
Building a coalition is easy. Holding it for a year is another matter: a careful prime minister reaches the end roughly one run in three. Governments usually fall not from a mistake but from success — the promises you keep tear the country apart.
The president asks you to form a government
Not that he believes in you. There is simply nobody else.
Play freeFree: the election, the negotiations and the first 13 weeks of the term. A full term with live lines is $4/mo or $30/yr, cancel any time.