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Merav Michaeli (Hebrew: מרב מיכאלי, romanized: Mērav Mīxāʾēlī; born 24 November 1966 [2]) is an Israeli politician, journalist, TV anchor, radio broadcaster, feminist, and activist currently serving as a member of the Knesset for the Democrats, which was formed in 2024 by a merger of the Labor and Meretz.
Michaeli was first elected leader of the Israeli Labor Party in the party's 2021 leadership election.Prior to her election as the party's leader, opinion polling for the 2021 Knesset election had the party falling below the electoral threshold; however, the party's support in polling recovered after her election as its leader, [1] and the party won seven seats in the 2021 Knesset election. [2]
Party leader Merav Michaeli announced on 7 December 2023 that she was calling an early leadership election that she would not run in. [25] In response, Meretz chairman Tomer Reznik urged Labor to hold joint primaries with Meretz. [26] On 6 May the party announced the final slate of leadership candidates: Yair Golan, Itai Leshem, Azi Nagar and ...
The 2021 Israeli Labor Party leadership election was held on 24 January 2021 in the lead-up to the 2021 Israeli legislative election.. The candidates were Merav Michaeli, Avi Shaked, Yitzhak Taym, Gil Beilin, Navah Katz, David Landsman, and Ofer Segman.
The Democrats (Hebrew: הדמוקרטים, romanized: HaDemokratim) is a social democratic political party in Israel, formed by the merger of the centre-left Israeli Labor Party and the left-wing Meretz party in July 2024.
One Druze lawmaker, 29 women, 23 new MKs and three openly gay MKs were elected to the 25th Knesset. [3] The number of Arab MKs was the lowest in two decades with 10 MKs. [4] On 30 June 2024, the Israeli Labor Party announced plans to merge with Meretz to become The Democrats, [5] with Labor MKs expected to become MKs for the new party; the merger was approved on 12 July.
Trajtenberg decided to retire from politics. [18] 6 October 2017: Leah Fadida: Zionist Union: Erel Margalit: Margalit resigned to return to working in business. [19] 22 October 2017: Mossi Raz: Meretz: Zehava Gal-On: Gal-On resigned from the Knesset. [20] 25 October 2017: Youssef Atauna: Joint List: Ibrahim Hijazi: Hijazi resigned from the ...
The election saw the incumbent party leader, Merav Michaeli, reelected with 82% of the vote, fending off a challenge by party secretary Eran Hermoni. [2] Michaeli's victory made her the first Labor Party leader to win consecutive leadership contests since leadership elections were first opened to the party's full membership in 1992. [3]