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Israeli Labor dumps Herzog, two candidates in run-off to succeed him

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Caption: Avi Gabbay, left, and Amir Peretz Photos: Olivier Fitoussi, Moti Milrod

Published: 6 July 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Whether Amir Peretz or Avi Gabbay wins the next vote, neither is likely to pose an electoral threat to Prime Minister Netanyahu in the Knesset.

Israeli Labor party taps former turncoats in bid to save a sinking ship
YOSSI VERTER: Run-off candidates Amir Peretz and Avi Gabbay are both big in the country’s outskirts, where the party is bleeding. The kingmaker might be ex-Labor chief Shelly Yacimovich, who's likely to back Gabbay (Haaretz, July 5)

Raising up Peretz and dumping Herzog, Labor shows it forgives — eventually
In retrospect, the late winter and early spring of 2016 may have proven fateful to the future of the Labor Party, setting off a chain of events that culminated in the vote (Times of Israel, July 5)

Israeli polls suggest new Labor leaders won't overtake Netanyahu's Likud
Amir Peretz and Avi Gabbay will face off for Israel's Labor Party leadership, but neither will gain more than 15 Knesset seats, new polls suggest (Haaretz, July 5)
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