Labor primaries

Likud's use of reserved slots keep the number of women MKs low - opinion

Opposition head Benjamin Netanyahu's use of reserved slots in Israel's Likud Party has become the focus of bitter competition among women.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022|ByGIDEON RAHAT, CHEN FRIEDBERG

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett and the female ministers in the government pose for a photo with visiting German chancellor Angela Merkel earlier this year.

LIKUD CHAIRMAN and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu casts his ballot in the party primary, last week.

Israel elections: How are Likud and Labor primaries significant? - opinion

One thing is certain: neither the list elected last week in the Labor Party, nor the one elected in the Likud would have been imaginable back in the 1990s.

AUGUST 14, 2022|BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF

Labor leader and Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli with Labor party Mk Naama Lazimi and Yaya Fink after the results were announced in the Labor party primary elections, in Tel Aviv, August 9, 2022.

Labor’s primary winner: Naama who? - analysis

This time around, Labor’s No. 2 -- if the party’s primary results are honored and there are no unexpected outside figures parachuted to the top 2 slots in the list -- will be filled by Naama Lazimi.

AUGUST 10, 2022|ByHERB KEINON

Labor leader and Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli with MK's and party members after the results were announced in the Labor party primary elections, in Tel Aviv, August 9, 2022.

Labor primaries: Here are the winners and the losers

Lazimi, Kariv, Rayten win big in Labor primary

AUGUST 9, 2022|ByELIAV BREUER

Labor elects Shmuly, Shaffir to top of list

The choice of Shmuly and Shaffir signaled a generational change in the ruling party and may have set them up as the main contestants in the next Labor leadership race.

FEBRUARY 11, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN

Analysis: Too late to resuscitate Labor

The sun came out, and so did Labor’s members. There were long lines in polling stations across the country, forcing an additional half hour of voting.

FEBRUARY 11, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN

Picture of Labor Party Chairman Avi Gabbay

Aussie Zionist leader: Likely election of Labor gov’t will pose challenges

President of the Zionist Federation of Australia, Jeremy Leibler, said that the challenges facing Israel under a Labor government will center around three major issues.

FEBRUARY 11, 2019ByHERB KEINON

Picture of Jeremy Leibler, president of the Zionist Federation of Australia

Flowers and fortune cookies flaunted by candidates in Labor race

“Today we are electing the best team for the next Knesset and the next government of Israel,” party Chairman Avi Gabbay said.

FEBRUARY 11, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN

Labor MK Stav Shaffir (C) with a group of supporters at a polling location for the party's primary elections, February 11th, 2019

Labor primary underway as polls open across country

"This is a holiday, a celebration of democracy in the Labor Party," Gabbay said. "Today we are electing the best team for the next Knesset and the next government of Israel."

FEBRUARY 11, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN