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Feb. 3, 2021
The Labor Party’s recovery in the polls and the buzz around its new slate for next month’s election may turn the heads of numerous Meretz voters as the deadline for submitting party lists approaches. A mass movement of voters to the rejuvenated Labor could endanger the small left-wing party’s chances of passing the electoral threshold. Despite this, Labor and Meretz do not intend to run a united ticket in this election, as they did in the previous one.
A Labor Party source described the first 10 names on the Labor ticket as “the left’s all-star list.” He said that along with Chairwoman Merav Michaeli, who has become a symbol of the feminist struggle, “There is a significant representation for women [50 percent of the list, with women in every other spot], there’s a Reform rabbi [Gilad Kariv, in slot 4], an Arab woman [Ibtisam Mara’ana, in the seventh slot, who left Meretz when that party supported Operation Cast Lead in Gaza] and a balance bet