Ben & Jerry's does not come out with new ice cream flavors too frequently, especially in Israel. With Israel's electoral situation in flux, Ben & Jerry's Israel announced back in December, when elections were called for the third time within a year, that they would put out a new flavor of ice cream, in the spirit of "paam shlishit glida" - third time, ice cream. They asked people, via their social media accounts, to make suggestions appropriate for the flavor. 

That day is here.

Ben & Jerry's Israel has now announced the new flavor, that is available immediately and will remain available at least through election day next week.

At least one positive thing is coming from these elections!

The new flavor of ice cream is called One Sweet Vote. The ice cream is made from a combination and mixture of vanilla and chocolate ice creams swirled together. The vanilla ice cream will contain pieces of chocolate in the shape of the peace symbol along with chocolate covered almonds. The chocolate ice cream will contain pieces of white chocolate, along with pieces of blondie brownies.

As they say, an ice cream full of surprises, blended with many flavors together, celebrating the diversity of Israel, the differences and beauty that we have in Israel.

The new flavor is available already in the factory shops, in Yavneh (5 Hameisav St, Yavneh 08-942-0586) and Beer Tuviah (Hakatzir St in the Industrial Zone, 073-270-8720).

It seems they will not bucket these and sell them retail in shops around the country alongside the regular ice cream. Whenever they put out a special flavor for a limited time, they have generally made it available only in the factory shops, at least int he beginning. Maybe if this becomes a big hit it will remain in production and end up in the shops.

They conclude saying that beside for the right and obligation of voting on election day, you now have another reason to enjoy the day off, and come to one of the shops and enjoy the new flavor, along with other surprises and bonuses.

I have yet to find out if the new flavor, One Sweet Vote, is in the regular line of ice cream or the mehadrin cholov yisrael line of ice cream flavors. I posted the question to them but have yet to receive a response.