Adventures of a Shlicha in Cape Town!: Israeli elections

The elections are in Israel today and for the first time in my life I am involved. I actually understand and can even explain to people about the elections, which parties are running, how the voting works, and even how to build a government. Unfortunately shlichim outside of Israel don''t have the right to vote. It doesn't really make sense, we leave the country to teach about Israel but cant even support our country by voting. I am frustrated for the first time when it comes to politics. On the other hand I am thankful, I had the opportunity to learn about the government of my country. I am sure that if I was home I would have known much less and just voted because I can.
As the Israeli "mishlachat" (group) we taught about the elections in the high school. I am very good at many things but politics is definitely not my thing. I had to learn A LOT for these classes and I am happy I did. We taught about the elections, how they happen every 4 years, how we vote in Israel, what happens after we vote, how the government is built, a coalition, an opposition, all the seats in the knesset, which parties are running ect.
Each student from the high school had the opportunity to vote and we held a vote from the school.
It was interesting to see how many kids in each class really did care about what was going on and felt a connection to Israel.
After we taught about 210 students we had an assembly for all of them and showed the results of the school. We spoke to them a bit about the current polls in Israel and bit of history from the past elections.
The feedback we got was amazing, the students loved the opportunity to be involved.
Even though I didn't get to vote, I got to learn and understand instead which is almost as exciting!