Labor and Meretz representatives after signing the merger agreementSpokesman The liaison team of the Labor Party, led by Yair Golan, and the Meretz party, led by party secretary general Tomer Reznik, ...

Meretz chairwoman Zehava Galon reacted on Wednesday evening to the failure in the elections, as it appears her party did not pass the electoral threshold and has been left out of the 25th Knesset.

With Meretz wiped out of Knesset, party’s local candidates struggle to raise funds Left-wing party was a force in municipal elections for decades, but with it now in debt and barred from subsidizing ...

"Don't give in to the false, dangerous spin that says that the head of the largest party will form the next government," Gal-On says. Meretz leader Zehava Gal-On presenting the party's diplomatic ...

Meretz MK says party would join Sa’ar coalition if it meant ousting Netanyahu Yair Golan says leftist faction is prepared to help right-wing challenger become PM; doesn’t rule out Bennett or Liberman ...

NIR OZ, Israel—“Meretz is my home,” Shlomo Margalit told me, referring to the social-democratic party known for its promotion of human and civil rights and opposition to the occupation of the West ...

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For years, the word Meretz has been synonymous in the Israeli lexicon with the country's mainstream Left. It brings to mind your average, secular Tel Aviv voter with a soft heart, a vegetable garden ...

An Israeli lawmaker quit the ruling coalition on Thursday, leaving it with fewer seats in parliament than the opposition in the latest blow to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s government. Ghaida ...

Say what you will about Naftali Bennett’s “I’m Not Sorry” viral ad campaign — we certainly did. But one thing you can’t deny is that it was smartly done. Bennett’s ad was internet-savvy and in touch ...