KIKAR KOMBAT

Official fight billIsrael votes for the 26th KnessetTuesday 27 October 2026Polls 07:00 to 22:00

Kikar Kombat

The fighting game of election season.

  • Coming soonApp Store

  • Coming soonGoogle Play

The Cabal: a black-suited silhouette in a gold crown, throwing a fireball
The Voter, in a baseball cap and jeans, mid flying kick

Red cornerThe Voter

Blue cornerThe Cabal

16 candidates. One seat.

An arcade fighter for iPhone and iPad, with Android on the way. Sixteen fictional parody characters, a proper fighting-game engine, and online play that puts iPhone and Android in the same ring.

Also on the card, in alphabetical order:

  1. Abbasi
  2. Ashero
  3. Ben Gavia
  4. Bento
  5. Bibo
  6. Derrick
  7. Eisenkod
  8. Ganss
  9. Golani
  10. Jabarini
  11. Lapido
  12. Libermon
  13. Smotrik
  14. Winters

Admission: one vote

Election27.10Tuesday

  • Fictional parody characters · not real people
  • Polls: everyone is tied
  • Election committee bans hits below the belt
  • New: online play between iPhone and Android
  • The Voter is still locked. Finish Arcade
  • The Cabal declined to comment
  • 27.10: everyone votes, then back to the ring
  • Six new candidates join the race

  • Nominationsare closed.

    On the wall: eight veterans and six newcomers for 2026. Every one of them has moves. None of them has a plan.

    Plus two more in the main event below: the Voter and the Cabal

    Listed alphabetically. Don’t read into it.

    Exit pollSample: 16 candidates

    7.5 seats for every candidate.

    Margin of error: ±120 seats. There is no such thing as half a seat. Hence: a fight.

  • The Bridge

    Abbasi

    “Everyone needs somebody. Today, nobody needed you.”

    TechnicalSpecial: Olive Branch

  • The New Broom

    Ashero

    “Nothing personal. We just refreshed the ranks.”

    GrapplerSpecial: Renewal

    New for 2026.
  • The Firebrand

    Ben Gavia

    “Turn the volume up. They can still hear each other think.”

    RushdownSpecial: Megaphone Blast

  • The Founder

    Bento

    “I support term limits. Yours just ran out.”

    TechnicalSpecial: Partner Assist

    New for 2026.
  • The Magician

    Bibo

    “It was a long and complicated process. You lost anyway.”

    All-rounderSpecial: Red Line

  • The Wunderkind

    Derrick

    “Governments come and go. I stay.”

    TechnicalSpecial: The Invisibles

    New for 2026.
  • The Strategist

    Eisenkod

    “I had a multi-year plan. Two rounds did the job.”

    All-rounderSpecial: Straight Talk

    New for 2026.
  • The General

    Ganss

    “Discipline beats improvisation. Every single time.”

    ZonerSpecial: Artillery Arc

  • The Paratrooper

    Golani

    “Up early, down fast. That is the whole doctrine.”

    RushdownSpecial: Airborne Dive

  • The Professor

    Jabarini

    “Appeal granted. Your case is dismissed.”

    ZonerSpecial: Injunction

    New for 2026.
  • The Anchor

    Lapido

    “That, in short, is what a functioning alternative looks like.”

    ZonerSpecial: Prime Time

  • The Bulldozer

    Libermon

    “I said what I said. Then I did what I said.”

    GrapplerSpecial: Bulldozer Rush

  • The Comptroller

    Smotrik

    “The transfer is approved. Your health bar is not.”

    TechnicalSpecial: Budget Cut

  • The Cold Front

    Winters

    “The people want new faces. So I rearranged yours.”

    RushdownSpecial: The Raid

    New for 2026.

Tap a poster to hear what they have to say.

How to vote

Six ways to reach the ballot box. All of them involve punching.

Online · new

Opponent wanted.

For an evening bout. iPhone or Android, doesn’t matter. Party membership not required.

  • Same Wi-FiTwo devices, one router. No internet and no server in between.
  • Room codeOpen a room and send a friend four characters. The room waits ten minutes, longer than most committees.
  • Quick matchWhoever is free right now, anywhere.

No O next to 0, no I next to 1. Nobody gets to claim confusion.

Rollback netcode. Your input lands within two to four frames, and rollback hides the rest. Even with your opponent at the other end of the country.

Exclusive

Coalition agreement

iPhoneandAndroid

  1. The parties shall fight in the same ring, on the same frame data, at the same 60 frames a second.
  2. Neither party shall receive an advantage. Not even a budget.
  3. Both parties shall update to the same version. Whoever doesn’t, doesn’t play. Unlike most clauses, this one is enforced.

First party

Second party

Mode

VS CPU

  1. Rookie
  2. MK
  3. Minister
  4. PM

Four difficulty levels. The higher they climb, the less they apologise.

Mode

Arcade

Five fights, easy to hard, and the Cabal waiting at the end.

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
To the weigh-in

Two players · one device

Whose phone is it?

Like a political argument over Friday dinner, only with health bars. By dessert, one friend fewer.

New at the community centreWalkthrough · Training

Political boxing for beginners

Sixteen lessons that teach the game while you play it, from walking to ultras. No previous political experience required.

  1. Movement
  2. Crouch
  3. Jump
  4. Dash
  5. Punch
  6. Kick
  7. Combo
  8. Blocking
  9. Low block
  10. Throw
  11. Throw break
  12. Special move
  13. EX move
  14. Focus attack
  15. Super
  16. Ultra

The training room: a patient dummy, a clock that never runs, and frame data on every hit. The only place in the country where someone actually listens.

The Voter in a fighting stance

Red corner

The Voter

“Eleventh time is the charm. See you at the polls.”

LOCKEDFinish Arcade

Main event · Official weigh-in

The weigh-in.

In the red corner: a citizen in a baseball cap, with a folding chair and eleven elections on his back. In the blue corner: every backroom deal ever signed, tailored into one suit.

Tale of the tape: The Voter vs The Cabal
The VoterStatThe Cabal
The CitizenNicknameFinal boss
355Walk speed340
1.00Weight1.20
100%Damage taken78%
Ballot TossSpecialGavel Strike
Election DaySuperPackage Deal
11 electionsRecordNever elected. Never left.
After ArcadePlayable?No. It plays you.

Real numbers, straight from the game’s fighter file. Speed is points per second, weight is how hard they are to shift, damage taken is how much of each hit actually lands.

Five Arcade fights, then the Cabal. Beat it and the Voter is yours.

The Cabal with both arms raised in victory

Blue corner

The Cabal

“The cabal holds. It always holds.”

Official document · For immediate release · Fighting systemsPage 1 of 1

The manifesto.

The only manifesto this election that anyone actually intends to keep.

  1. Cl. 1

    Frame data on every move. Startup, active, recovery. Full transparency, contrary to custom.

  2. Cl. 2

    High and low guard. Block high, eat a low. Block a heavy and the turn is yours to punish.

  3. Cl. 3

    Throws and throw breaks. Get grabbed and you have one moment to break free. After that it’s a coalition agreement.

  4. Cl. 4

    Armoured focus attacks. Absorb one hit and pay it back with interest, like any good faction meeting.

  5. Cl. 5

    EX, super and ultra. A four-stock super meter, plus a revenge gauge that fills only from the hits you take. Like public patience, except here it’s good for something.

  6. Cl. 6

    Guard and stun gauges. Turtle too long and you crack. Eat too much and you’re seeing stars.

  7. Cl. 7

    No hitting below the belt.

  8. Cl. 7a

    Except sweeps.

  9. Cl. 8

    Rollback online. Your inputs land within two to four frames, and rollback hides the rest. Sixty frames a second, iPhone to Android and Galilee to Arava.

Six buttons and a stick, sized for thumbs. Whoever loses can’t blame the controller.

Fig. A Focus attack (Abbasi)
Fig. B Throw (Libermon)
Fig. C Block (Ganss)
Fig. D Sweep, see clause 7a (Winters)

Signed by:

All 16 candidates. Unanimously. The first thing they have ever agreed on.

Artist’s impressions

For illustration only, as the billboards say: renders from the new version’s design file. Like any campaign promise, the finished product may differ slightly.

A fight in the Old City: Golani lands a three-hit combo on Bento, with health bars, super meters and touch buttons
01The Old City at golden hour. Three hits in a row; an inquiry will follow.
The main menu in English: Arcade, VS CPU, Online, Two players, Training and Tutorial as posters on a wall
02The main menu, in English. A wall of posters, and not one of them paid for by a party.
The online lobby: a room code, the code keypad and a list of games on the same Wi-Fi
03The lobby. Four characters open a room, and sometimes settle a score.
The fighter select screen, with every fighter, a random pick and one locked slot
04Candidate select. The undecided get a random button.
Two players on one device at the Dead Sea stage, with two sets of buttons
05Two players, one device, the Dead Sea. Each side gets half the screen and neither gives an inch.

Seven stages.

From the Plenum to the Dead Sea. Every one has a crowd, none of them has quiet.

  • The PlenumJerusalem

  • Kaplan StreetTel Aviv

  • The BoardwalkTel Aviv, sunset

  • The Old CityJerusalem, golden hour

  • The Dead SeaLowest place on earth

  • Studio 12Live debate

  • Habima SquareTel Aviv

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Vote with your thumbs.

Kikar Kombat is coming to the App Store for iPhone and iPad, then to Google Play for Android. Save the paper ballot for the booth. Start warming up your thumbs now.

Admission:
one vote
Row:
everyone
Seat:
one

  • Coming soonApp Store

  • Coming soonGoogle Play

27.10Election day. Then another round, probably.