Published: 6 March 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Centre-left doomed by Netanyahu’s killer campaign – and its own crippling complacency (Haaretz)
CHEMI SHALEV: Champions of Israel’s liberal democracy must now tap their inner rage to avert imminent extinction
The Left learned the hard way that the whole is smaller than its parts (Haaretz)
JONATHON LIS After the April election Labor-Gesher and Meretz thought the time had come to establish a left-wing slate. Now it’s uncertain whether the failed merger can be undone
Israel’s opposition parties campaigned on democracy; Netanyahu won on Zionism (972)
Blue and White thought Israeli voters would opt for a copy of Likud without the indictments. It lost that bet three elections in a row
Lacklustre showing sparks calls for ‘soul searching’ in left-wing alliance (Times of Israel)
Tamar Zandberg and Itzik Shmuli lament Labor-Gesher-Meretz’s projected 7 seats, though others praise merger for saving all three factions from falling under threshold
Photo: Labor-Gesher-Meretz leaders (from left) Nitzan Horowitz, Amir Peretz and Orli Levi-Abekasis encourage the public to vote for them, March 1 (Moti Milrod)
