Labor primaries

Middle Israel: How Likud’s primaries poisoned Israeli politics - opinion

The 18-year fencing match between Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin came to a sudden end, thanks to an invention Israel had never seen: primary elections. 

|ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
A LIKUD supporter waves the party’s flag at a gathering, a show of grassroots loyalty which has long defined the movement, even as critics say its primaries have reshaped, and at times distorted, who rises within its ranks.
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett and the female ministers in the government pose for a photo with visiting German chancellor Angela Merkel earlier this year.

Likud's use of reserved slots keep the number of women MKs low - opinion

Opposition head Benjamin Netanyahu's use of reserved slots in Israel's Likud Party has become the focus of bitter competition among women.

|ByGIDEON RAHAT, CHEN FRIEDBERG
LIKUD CHAIRMAN and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu casts his ballot in the party primary, last week.

Israel elections: How are Likud and Labor primaries significant? - opinion

One thing is certain: neither the list elected last week in the Labor Party, nor the one elected in the Likud would have been imaginable back in the 1990s.

|BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
Labor leader and Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli with Labor party Mk Naama Lazimi and Yaya Fink after the results were announced in the Labor party primary elections, in Tel Aviv, August 9, 2022.

Labor’s primary winner: Naama who? - analysis

This time around, Labor’s No. 2 -- if the party’s primary results are honored and there are no unexpected outside figures parachuted to the top 2 slots in the list -- will be filled by  Naama Lazimi.

|ByHERB KEINON

The suicide of the Center-Left?

Lapid has remained steady at 14 seats instead of rising. Huldai has gone down and not up. And Gantz has not left politics, making it harder for parties that dislike him to unite.

JANUARY 17, 2021ByGIL HOFFMAN
Before the split: (From left) Blue and White leaders Gabi Ashkenazi, Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid and Moshe Ya’alon thank supporters at party headquarters in Tel Aviv after the elections on September 18, 2019

Labor Party to hold leadership primary

Meirav Michaeli is set to run, challenged by advertising executive Gil Beilin and possibly by Itzik Shmuli.

JANUARY 14, 2021ByGIL HOFFMAN
Labor Party politicians Meirav Michaeli and Itzik Shmuli.

Labor leader Amir Peretz announces he has no intention to run for Knesset

"I will continue to work for the Israeli public out of love and great faith" and act "out of a sense of mission and personal example."

JANUARY 13, 2021ByGIL HOFFMAN
Chairman of the Labor party Amir Peretz seen during a press conference with Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz and party members in Tel Aviv on March 12, 2020.

Peretz to work on uniting Labor and Left

Peretz reiterated his plan to raise Labor from the six seats it won in the April 9 election to 15

JULY 4, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN
New Labor leader Amir Peretz, July 3rd, 2019

Peretz: If I win, Netanyahu will lose

Shaffir received an endorsement on Sunday from Rabbi Gilad Kariv, who heads the Reform movement in Israel.

JULY 1, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN
Amir Peretz

Labor to hold leadership primary in November

The proposal to hold primaries was proposed by current party leader Avi Gabbay, after the party's failure at the national elections, in which the party received only six Knesset seats.

MAY 14, 2019ByLAHAV HARKOV
Avi Gabbay speaking at the Labor headquartes in Tel Aviv alongside MKs Omer Bar-Lev and Stav Shaffir

U.S. citizen high on Labor list vows to help English speakers in Israel

Only one candidate had the ultimate secret weapon: A mother from Brooklyn.

FEBRUARY 19, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN, HAGAY HACOHEN
Yair “Yaya” Fink

High on Labor list, Fink vows to fight for 'left-leaning' religious values

Yair “Yaya” Fink won 12th place on the Labor list during Monday's elections, marking him as a powerful and well-liked presence on the list the party will present to voters ahead of April 9.

FEBRUARY 19, 2019ByHAGAY HACOHEN
Yair “Yaya” Fink

Labor – has the party ended?

After more than 70 years of parliamentary activity and 37 years of leading the state, there is a high possibility that Labor will not pass the threshold and will cease to exist.

FEBRUARY 15, 2019ByORI WERTMAN
AVI GABBAY (center) and his Labor colleagues celebrate on primary night

Gabbay undecided on adding star to Labor

Avi Gabbay vows to help nemesis enter Knesset.

FEBRUARY 12, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN
Labor leader Avi Gabbay speaks to mayors from his party Thursday in Haifa