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Dec. 31, 2020
Meretz no longer has the right to exist as an independent political entity. But its worldview, values and ideology definitely do, more importantly than ever given Israel’s downward slide towards becoming a fragile democracy. Meretz has been shrinking for years, facing extinction. What’s required now is the establishment of a new and wide-embracing entity, a social democratic party based on its underpinnings.
Meretz was established as an amalgamated party of left-wing Zionist bodies, including Shulamit Aloni’s Ratz party, Mapam, led by Yair Tzaban and Shinui, led by Amnon Rubinstein. At its founding in 1992, it won 12 Knesset seats. Four years later, led by Yossi Sarid, it garnered nine seats. Following the 1999 election for the 15th Knesset, it rose to double-digits again, with 10 seats. Since then, over two decades, the party has had difficulty getting more than five Knesset seats (in 2013 it received six), hovering between treading water and disappeari
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