Get email notification for articles from Uzi Baram
Follow
Jul. 14, 2021 1:57 AM
The electoral upheaval of 1977 crashed on the heads of the leaders of the Labor Party like a collapsed tower. They didn’t know how to digest the “unfairness” with which the public had treated them. They, who saw themselves as born to rule, felt they had been robbed, and had difficulty internalizing the fact that this was not only an electoral defeat but a genuine upheaval – the system collapsed and was replaced.
At the time I was elected to the Knesset for the first time – therefore I didn’t experience the sense of loss. Together with my friends, I devoted myself to the battle against Menahem Begin and his government. Our rival, the Gahal faction – a product of the merger between Begin’s Herut party and the Liberal Party headed by Simha Erlich – evinced a fighting spirit mixed with a desire for revenge.
Herut
Hamerkaz
Israel
Egypt
Naftali-bennett
Amiram-sivan
Yair-lapid
Mansour-abbas
Yitzhak-navon
Shimon-peres
Simha-erlich
Haim-tzadok