The Collapse of the Israeli Labor Party Is Bad for Israel’s Democracy
An unelected establishment threatens the popular will.
January 4, 2019
The Collapse of the Israeli Labor Party Is Bad for Israel’s Democracy
An unelected establishment threatens the popular will.
With Israel’s next national election scheduled for April, the campaign season has kicked off with the usual reshuffling of political parties, as new parties form—two of them led by prominent former chiefs of the IDF—and established ones fracture. The most important and surprising development so far has been the decision of the Labor party’s leader, Avi Gabbay, to end its alliance with the centrist Hatnuah, led by Tzipi Livni. Since its formation in 2014, the Labor-Hatnuah bloc has been the most important opposition force in the Knesset. Amnon Lord believes its collapse will ultimately empower unelected elites:
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