Meretz

Democrats Party breaks record of 75,000 members, sets date for primaries ahead of elections

The left-wing Democrats Party said it will hold primaries on July 20 after crossing a record 75,000 members, marking its highest membership since the late 1990s.

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Leader of the Democrats party Yair Golan leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on June 15, 2026.
AVI DABUSH (left) sits alongside Democrats Party leader Yair Golan and MK Naama Lazimi (Democrats).

Head of Rabbis for Human Rights Avi Dabush to run in Democrats Party primaries

The left-wing Democrats Party is composed of the Labor and Meretz parties, which merged in 2024. Dabush is expected to run for one of the reserved Meretz slots on the party’s list.

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Businessman and former Labor Party member Avi Shaked, who announced the formation of a new Jewish-Arab party.

Former Labor Party member Avi Shaked announces new Jewish-Arab party

The statement said that the party “calls for strengthening Arab society to build a better shared future in Israel."

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Yair Lapid speaking on the 15th of July 2024, before the Knesset goes on reccess.

Netanyahu a 'whiner and coward' for incitement complaints, Lapid says

"If we do not hit the streets with force, together and now, the abandonment of our brothers and sisters will continue."

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Israel Elections: Future of Meretz hangs in the balance - analysis

Zehava Galon and Yair Golan, the two Meretz leadership candidates, represent two sharply different visions for the future of the party.

AUGUST 1, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
Outgoing Meretz head and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 28, 2022

Israel election poll: Zionist Spirit crosses electoral threshold, no change to blocs

Shaked, who spoke against a narrow right-wing government, could hand Benjamin Netanyahu the keys to the Prime Minister's Office, a new N12 poll found.

JULY 28, 2022ByELIAV BREUER, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked was given flowers after annoucing a joint run with Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel as the Zionist Spirit party on July 27, 2022

Zehava Galon, Yair Golan spar over defining Meretz as Zionist

Following statements from Zehava Galon last week regarding Zionism and Meretz, her fellow leadership candidate Yair Golan took to Facebook to criticize her.

JULY 26, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
Zahava Gal attends a Constitution, Law, and Justice, Committee meeting in the Israeli parliament on February 23, 2016.

Israel elections: Both blocs still fail to form a coalition - poll

The results of the latest poll leave Netanyahu's bloc with 60 seats and the opposing bloc with either 54 or 53 seats.

JULY 24, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A woman casts her ballot as Israelis vote in a parliamentary election, at a polling station in Tel Aviv, Israel April 9, 2019

Israel elections: Israel is in for a wild campaign season - opinion

In Israel, every day is dramatic and this is true all the more so in politics. This campaign season will be primal and highly charged.

JULY 24, 2022ByDANIELLE ROTH-AVNERI
BENNY GANTZ, Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett in the Knesset last month getting ready for elections.

Israel's 25th Knesset elections: Ideological or strategic voting? - opinion

The upcoming election presents an interesting dichotomy for left-wing voters.

JULY 24, 2022BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
IN THE current situation none of us – to whichever side of the political spectrum one belongs – can afford not to take strategic considerations into account, side by side with ideological considerations.

Zehava Galon announces candidacy for Meretz primaries

The former Meretz head stressed that this was "not an easy decision."

JULY 19, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
Zehava Galon, former head of the Meretz Party

Nitzan Horowitz to step down as Meretz head

The health minister's decision to not run for the Meretz chairmanship currently leaves Yair Golan as the sole candidate.

JULY 12, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz.

Yair Golan, former IDF general, says he will run for Meretz chairmanship

"I will run in order to build a proud, strong, Zionist Left, that fights for Israel's character and future," Golan said.

JULY 6, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
Yair Golan

Esawi Frej leaves Meretz ahead of elections

Frej announced that he had decided to take a break from the Knesset, but not from public life.

JULY 5, 2022ByTZVI JOFFRE
Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej.