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

Israel's trade union head endorses Peretz in Labor race

Peretz: Netanyahu should start worrying.

JULY 5, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN

Labor loses its head again

Former environmental protection minister Avi Gabbay will face off in a runoff against MK Amir Peretz in a contest that is completely up for grabs.

JULY 4, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN

Peretz and Gabbay to face off in Labor primary runoff

Herzog dethroned as Labor leader, coming in third with less that 17% of the vote.

JULY 4, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN

Labor challengers brave the heat in primary race

Asked whether he is concerned that the current heat wave would keep Labor members at home, MK Erel Margalit said "the Jewish people made it through 40 years in the desert."

JULY 4, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN

MK Erel Margalit and his wife Debbie arrive to vote at the Labor primary election, July 4 2017

Polls open in Labor Party primary

If Herzog gets reelected, he would make history, becoming the first Labor leader to be reelected since the 1980s, before Labor adopted the primary system.

JULY 3, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN

Ballot boxes for Zionist Union primary elections

Sole female candidate quits Labor race

Dina Dayan's departure leaves Labor with seven candidates.

JULY 3, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN

Think about it: The Labor Party leadership primaries

What the Labor Party needs, in order to remain a central player in the political game, is a charismatic leader who is not perceived as a leftie par excellence.

JULY 2, 2017BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF