# Women's Voice: what they've published Close Read, episode 9. Women's Voice (קול הנשים), list 9, ballot letters קה. Published October 6, 2026. Israel's Knesset election is on October 27, 2026. - Page: https://closeread.show/israel-2026/womens-voice/ - Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcVrMUARhJM - Audio: https://media.closeread.show/audio/closeread-009-womens-voice-c717a615.mp3 Women's Voice is on the ballot, but I couldn't find anything this list has published about what it would do. [S9](#source-s9) ## Who is Women's Voice? Women's Voice, Kol HaNashim in Hebrew, is on the ballot as the letters kuf heh, with a 15-person list headed by Amir Israel Shadmi. [S1](#source-s1)[S2](#source-s2)[S3](#source-s3) A list with the same name ran in March 2020, headed by different people, and none of them are on this year's list. [S6](#source-s6)[S1](#source-s1) ## What has Women's Voice published? The election committee's page for the list shows the candidates and nothing else. The Israel Democracy Institute's table of this year's parties has no platform for it. [S1](#source-s1)[S5](#source-s5) I searched in Hebrew, English, and Arabic for a platform, a website, an interview, or an official account. The accounts I found with the party's name are from the 2020 campaign, and the leader's personal Facebook profile has nothing public. [S9](#source-s9) A reporter at the election committee posted a one-line summary of what someone from the list said there. It's a paraphrase, not the party's own words, and it doesn't name who said it, so it isn't counted here. [S8](#source-s8) ## What does Women's Voice say about security and foreign policy? I couldn't find a stated position on security or foreign policy. [S9](#source-s9) ## What does Women's Voice say about accountability for October 7? On October 7 accountability, I found nothing published. [S9](#source-s9) ## What does Women's Voice say about the economy and the cost of living? I found no position on the economy or the cost of living. [S9](#source-s9) ## What does Women's Voice say about housing? Nothing on housing either. [S9](#source-s9) ## What does Women's Voice say about religion and state? There's nothing published on religion and state that I could find. [S9](#source-s9) ## What does Women's Voice say about the judiciary and governance? On the courts or how government is run, I found nothing published. [S9](#source-s9) ## What does Women's Voice say about education? I found no position on education. [S9](#source-s9) ## What does Women's Voice say about health? Nothing on health either. [S9](#source-s9) ## What does Women's Voice say about social welfare, pensions and the elderly? There's nothing published on welfare, pensions, or the elderly that I could find. [S9](#source-s9) ## What does Women's Voice say about Arab citizens and minorities? On Arab citizens or minorities, I found nothing published. [S9](#source-s9) ## What does Women's Voice say about immigration, absorption and the diaspora? I found no position on immigration, absorption, or the diaspora. [S9](#source-s9) ## What does Women's Voice say about the environment, energy and transportation? Nothing on the environment, energy, or transportation either. [S9](#source-s9) ## What Women's Voice puts front and center I couldn't find anything this list has put front and center, and I'm not carrying over what the 2020 list said. [S9](#source-s9)[S6](#source-s6) ## What Women's Voice hasn't published So on all thirteen topics, I couldn't find a stated position in the material I reviewed. [S9](#source-s9) ## Chapters - 0:00 Intro - 0:40 Who they are - 0:58 What they've published - 1:36 Security, October 7: no stated position - 1:47 Economy, Housing, Religion and state: no stated position - 1:58 Education, Health, Welfare, Arab citizens: no stated position - 2:11 Immigration, Environment, Front and center: no stated position - 2:26 What's missing ## Sources - S1: [CEC page "קול הנשים": list submitted by "מפלגת קול הנשים"; 15 candidates, first "ישראל שדמי עמיר"; ballot slip קה / ق ه, Arabic name صوت النساء](https://www.gov.il/he/pages/kol-ha-nashim_list9) (CEC record, Hebrew, Arabic on slip, published 2026-09-07, updated 2026-09-29) - S2: [Ynet, CEC approval of 38 lists and their letters, "קה" for "קול הנשים". Letters only](https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/s1ibdii5fe) (News report of a CEC decision, Hebrew, published 2026-09-27) - S3: [CEC index of all 38 lists with letters; row קה, קול הנשים. Copied 2026-10-01 from the Joint List folder](https://www.gov.il/he/pages/candidates-lists-26) (CEC record, Hebrew, published September 2026) - S4: [Knesset Channel list of all 26th Knesset lists ("קול הנשים: ישראל שדמי עמיר, בוהדנה אמה, בן אבו טליה, ...")](https://www.knesset.tv/main-articles/61384/94592/) (News (secondary), Hebrew, published 2026-09) - S5: [IDI 2026 parties table: "קול הנשים" with a candidate list and no platform link](https://www.idi.org.il/policy/parties-and-elections/elections/2026-1) (Reference table, Hebrew, published 2026) - S6: [CEC page for the 23rd Knesset (March 2020): "קול הנשים", 97 candidates headed by "שאול מזל". No overlap with the 2026 names](https://www.idi.org.il/media/14020/קול-הנשים.pdf) (CEC record (2020), Hebrew, published 2020-02-24 (printout)) - S7: [IDI 2020 results table: "קול הנשים" with a candidate list and no platform link](https://www.idi.org.il/policy/parties-and-elections/elections/2020/) (Reference table, Hebrew, published 2020) - S8: [Akiva Novick, live from the filing: an unnamed list representative tells Justice Sohlberg he is "subletting" the party from the original Kol HaNashim and has "a security agenda, not a feminist one." Paraphrase, no quote, speaker not named](https://x.com/akivanovick/status/2096958840688222414) (Journalist's post on X, Hebrew, published 2026-09-07) - S9: Every query, account and retrieval attempt, 2026-09-30 and 2026-10-02 (Research log, Hebrew, Arabic, English, published n/a)