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

'Trump advisers don't understand Israel's fear of Palestinian state'

Ehud Barak: "Netanyahu, Bennett, and Shaked will bring us to apartheid."

JUNE 20, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN
US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting at the presidential headquarters in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, May 23, 2017

Labor party leader Herzog warns party will break up if he loses

MK Erel Margalit catches former environmental protection minister Avi Gabbay in lie on voting Likud.

JUNE 4, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN
Isaac Herzog

Labor candidate complains party is acting like the mob

Dayan, a haredi woman from Mitzpe Ramon, called a press conference at the party’s Tel Aviv headquarters to highlight the corruption.

MAY 28, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN
SHELLY YACIMOVICH poses in front of one of her campaign signs earlier this month.

Histadrut legal woes put Labor race in jeopardy

Forgeries and tampering have been found in the membership list and hackers have been able to enter the roster and change information about party members, including Labor leader Isaac Herzog.

MAY 25, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN
AVI NISSENKORN

MK Erel Margalit, Golani soldier, patriot, entrepreneur, Zionist, Leftist, for Labor Party leader

Margalit brings his entrepreneurial spirit and acumen to governing while never losing sight of the Labor Party’s Zionist roots.

MAY 25, 2017ByYUVAL RABIN
Erel Margalit

Peretz Labor Party campaign slogan: ‘The only one who can’

Peretz reached out to the periphery and said, “When I will be prime minister, there will not be a single hungry child and there will not be a downtrodden elderly person.”

MAY 16, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN
Amir Peretz

Labor pledges to give Netanyahu political cover for peace deal

Neither Herzog nor any of the other major candidates for Labor chairman said he would consider joining Netanyahu’s government, even if significant steps are made to advance a peace deal.

MAY 15, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem May 3, 2017.