What’s next for the Left after election thumping? Gabbay won’t resign

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Published: 19 April 2019

Last updated: 4 March 2024

AKIVA ELDAR: The result must serve as a wakeup call for lifting the banner of equality among Israelis along with a serious dialogue to end the Palestinian conflict

SHORTLY AFTER VOTING ended and exit polls aired on April 9, Labor party politicos were already looking for scapegoats on whom to blame their plunge from 24 Knesset seats, garnered in the 2015 elections by the Zionist Camp that it led, to six.

Less than 48 hours later, the party’s Secretary-General Eran Hermoni called on Labor Chair Avi Gabbay to step down.

In a lengthy post, Labor’s former party chair from 2011 to 2013 asked her followers “Where do we go from here?” and “How do we continue to express our political ideology?”

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Photo: Avi Gabbay, leader of the Labor party, speaks at an election campaign event near the Gaza Strip border, March 7 (Reuters/Amir Cohen)