Coalition Lab
Take today's polls from every major Israeli pollster, simulate every plausible coalition government, and explain in plain English who can actually govern — built for English-speaking political junkies following the Knesset race.
diaspora Jews and political-news junkies tracking the Israeli election
- Daily poll aggregation with confidence bands and week-over-week trend lines
- Interactive coalition builder that respects each party's stated red lines
- Plain-English 'what changed this week' briefing distilling new releases
- Side-by-side scenarios for Eisenkot-led, Bennett-led and Netanyahu-led governments
With Eisenkot overtaking Likud for the first time and coalition math shifting week to week, English-speaking followers have no central place to translate fragmented poll releases into who can actually form a government.
Eisenkot overtaking Likud is real breaking news (Channel 13 + Maariv polls), confirming an active English-language audience tracking coalition math; US Google Trends for 'benjamin netanyahu' at 200+ confirms baseline interest, but the specific 'coalition simulator' niche is narrow.Eisenkot's Yashar edges out Netanyahu's Likud for first time in new Channel 13 poll ↗Eisenkot continues rise in polls, overtakes Netanyahu's Likud for first time ↗
Space is crowded with free incumbents: Knesset Machine, Israel Election PAD (GitHub), PoliWave, Global Election Simulator, 120 Project, theMadad poll-aggregator with coalition builder, +972 tracker, and KnessetJeremy — most already aggregate polls and let users build 61-seat coalitions.The Knesset Machine · Israeli Election Simulator ↗Israel Election PAD - GitHub Pages ↗2026 Election Polls | המדד ↗120 Project: Israel Elections 2026 ↗
Willingness to pay exists — Daniel Gordis's 'Israel from the Inside' Substack has tens of thousands of paying subscribers for nuanced analysis — but most poll aggregators and simulators above are free, so paid conversion for a dashboard tool (vs. commentary) is unproven.Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis | Substack ↗
Demand is sharply election-cyclical: spikes around campaigns and coalition crises, then fades between elections; niche tool would need constant content refresh as Israeli politics churns, and post-election the value proposition collapses.
Public polls and Knesset seat math are openly available and deterministic; aggregation + coalition enumeration is straightforward to build, but ongoing maintenance scraping pollsters daily and translating Hebrew sources is a real ops burden.