Ahead of the March 23 elections, only one party has a woman to lead it and it is only that same party that offer a gender-equal list for the next Knesset.
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Mar. 8, 2021
Monday’s mini-scandal on the campaign trail was provided by a candidate few Israelis had heard of before. In an interview with the Kul al-Arab channel, Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi – No. 4 on Meretz’s candidate slate – said she would abstain on legislation outlawing “conversion therapy” for LGBT people if such a law were presented to the Knesset, “out of respect to my conservative community.” Cue a storm on the left.
Meretz is the party of LGBTQ rights, with an openly gay leader, Nitzan Horowitz, and a record going back to the 1980s (even before Meretz was founded) when future party co-founder Shulamit Aloni successfully lobbied for the decriminalization of same-sex relations. How could a Meretz candidate even contemplate not voting to outlaw “conversion therapy”?
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Netanyahu was counting on his COVID-19 vaccination strategy to lead the March 23 election campaign. But the message did not sink in; it even raised hackles and is going to be shelved
Netanyahu was counting on his COVID-19 vaccination strategy to lead the March 23 election campaign. But the message did not sink in; it even raised hackles and is going to be shelved