Board Thread:Community Discusson/@comment-5175866-20140808231850/@comment-5175866-20140817211034

A new policy that will be taken in place, designed to handle featured article conflicts that have occurred in this month's voting as well to be likely in the future is going to executed beginning this month (affective immediately after posting, if needed in the future a more organized featured article policy will be developed):

As of this month, in the case of a tie for nominations, a nomination of an Administrator or one chosen by an Administrator, will automatically be the featured article for the month. The second nomination in tie, will automatically be featured article for the month following, unless other nominations are pending.

So currently the featured article will be the Israel article. The reason for administrative chosing is because Administrators are often the most knowledgable, and the best at judging for articles and their quaity status.