Meretz

Head of Rabbis for Human Rights Avi Dabush to run in Democrats Party primaries

The left-wing Democrats Party is composed of the Labor and Meretz parties, which merged in 2024. Dabush is expected to run for one of the reserved Meretz slots on the party’s list.

AVI DABUSH (left) sits alongside Democrats Party leader Yair Golan and MK Naama Lazimi  (Democrats).
 Businessman and former Labor Party member Avi Shaked, who announced the formation of a new Jewish-Arab party.

Former Labor Party member Avi Shaked announces new Jewish-Arab party

 Yair Lapid speaking on the 15th of July 2024, before the Knesset goes on reccess.

Netanyahu a 'whiner and coward' for incitement complaints, Lapid says

 Yair Golan facing the crowd before his speech following the vote to merge Meretz and Labor parties

With an overwhelming majority, Meretz and Labor approve merge, becoming the Democrats


Israel elections: With primary elections over, focus returns to mergers

Will Meretz merge with Labor? Will Religious Zionist Party fold to Itamar Ben-Gvir's demands?

 Zehava Galon, former head of the Meretz party.

Zehava Galon wins Meretz primary election, Horowitz drops out of Knesset

Galon beats Golan in Meretz leadership race, Raz and Rozin jump into top three, pushing him down to fifth place, and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz crashes out of the Knesset.

 Meretz's Knesset candidates following Zehava Galon's primary victory on August 23, 2022

Meretz, Religious Zionism primary elections coming up on Tuesday

The Religious Zionism primary election comes in the wake of Otzma Yehudit leader MK Itamar Ben Gvir's announcement on August 15 that his party will run independently.

Israelis cast their votes at a voting station in Jerusalem, during the Knesset Elections, on March 23, 2021

Israel Elections: Eisenkot gives National Unity 2 seats – poll

Following the split between Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, Otzma Yehudit won 7 seats versus Religious Zionism's 5 ahead of Israeli elections.

 Illustration from a polling station in Jerusalem, as Israelis vote in their general elections, on March 23, 2021

Israel has forgotten what normality is - Haredi Meretz candidate Kaplan

"There is nothing on the Meretz platform that a haredi person, that a person who has 'yirat shamayaim', fear of heaven [cannot support]."

  Haredi Meretz candidate Ofra Kaplan/

‘Israel is my state and the Palestinians are my people' - interview with Esawi Frej

"Why do we serve in the Knesset? So we can deliver fiery speeches? We serve in the Knesset to change things, to serve a community," said the retiring Meretz MK.

  Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej.

Israeli-Arab partnership is doomed, Netanyahu always come first - opinion

I am leaving Meretz with the terrible realization that the only Jewish partner in the Israeli parliament has left the mutual cause of living together as equals.

 THE WRITER votes in the Knesset plenum against legislation aimed at extending the civilian status of Israelis living in the West Bank, in June.

Israel elections: Shaked passes electoral threshold, Meretz does not - poll

The latest poll ahead of Israel's elections leaves opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc with 59 seats, not including the Zionist Spirit party.

 Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked was given flowers after annoucing a joint run with Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel as the Zionist Spirit party on July 27, 2022

Open investigation into Netanyahu-Channel 14 connections -Zehava Galon

One of the prime candidates for leadership of the Meretz Party, she dubbed the new findings "Case 14,000."

 Zehava Galon, former head of the Meretz party.

Israel Elections: Future of Meretz hangs in the balance - analysis

Zehava Galon and Yair Golan, the two Meretz leadership candidates, represent two sharply different visions for the future of the party.

Outgoing Meretz head and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 28, 2022