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In December, Livni was reported to be considering joining forces with Lapid in light of a flurry of high-profile departures from Benny Gantz s Kahol Lavan party.
In the 2015 election, Livni s Hatnuah party joined with Labor to run as the Zionist Union, bringing five of the party s members to the Knesset. In 2019, Avi Gabbay, then chairman of Labor, unilaterally announced that he was breaking up the Zionist Union alliance. Hatnuah did not run in the three elections since then.
Earlier Monday, former Defense Minister Moshe Ya alon also said he wouldn t be running in the upcoming election. Ya alon, a former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, ran in three elections as part of Kahol Lavan, before leaving the party after Gantz joined a coalition with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which Ya alon refused to do.
Once Proud Labor Party Seeking to Regain Momentum Uri Cohen
After tumultuous several years, revitalized party holds primary elections with 45,000 party members voting
Israel’s rejuvenated Labor party held its primary elections on Monday, exactly 50 days before voters across the country head to the polls for the fourth time in two years in the hopes of finally ending Israel’s ongoing political stalemate.
One week after electing its new chairwoman, former TV personality and eight-year member of Knesset Merav Michaeli, the oldest party in politics formed its list of candidates for the upcoming parliament, amid cautious yet growing enthusiasm.
“I’m optimistic about Labor, because it has deep roots. Trees may fall from time to time, but roots stay in the ground and eventually grow new trees,” Nachman Shai, a Knesset veteran of 10 years who ran in Monday’s primary, told The Media Line.
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