Meretz 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.

 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.
 Zehava Galon, former head of the Meretz party.

Israel elections: With primary elections over, focus returns to mergers

 Meretz's Knesset candidates following Zehava Galon's primary victory on August 23, 2022

Zehava Galon wins Meretz primary election, Horowitz drops out of Knesset

  Haredi Meretz candidate Ofra Kaplan/

Israel has forgotten what normality is - Haredi Meretz candidate Kaplan


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.

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

Zandberg: Meretz will win 10 seats in April elections

Zandberg will lead the party into a Knesset election for the first time in April after she won Meretz's first leadership primary in March 2018.

The new Meretz party after the 2019 primaries

Detained Conservative rabbi to head Meretz Party in municipal elections

Meretz party chair MK Tamar Zandberg welcomed Hayun’s decision to join the party saying it would strengthen the fight for liberal and pluralist values, which she said are currently under attack.

RABBI DUBI Hayun

Religious woman running to lead Meretz in Jerusalem

“Putting a religious woman at the top of the list will help attract new sectors who can come if Meretz will only start reaching out to them,” the candidate said.

Jerusalem city hall in Safra Square

Meretz to hold first ever primary elections for party leadership

The party leadership race will be held on Thursday.

‘I WANT to hear what my lecturer thinks’ and ‘Everything’s political’ read signs held by Meretz supporters at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem yesterday

Meretz candidate Buskila: I still believe I will win party primary

“The significance of me leading Meretz is that human rights aren’t just written about, they are lived.”

MK Tamar Zandberg

Longtime Meretz leaders Gal-On and Gilon drop out of party leadership race

Seven candidates remain in the race, while the party has only five MKs.

Meretz leader Zehava Gal-On presenting the party's diplomatic platform

Tamar Zandberg joins Meretz leadership race

Zandberg, 41, said she believes the time has come for Meretz to have young, new leadership after years of the press declaring the party tired, boring, and irrelevant.

MK Tamar Zandberg

Meretz leaders decide to hold leadership race on March 22

The party will hold a membership drive through February 17 that will allow thousands of new people to vote in the race.

Meretz leader Zehava Gal-On presenting the party's diplomatic platform