Meretz
The electoral threshold is distorting Israel's democracy - time to rethink it - opinion
Israel’s electoral threshold was designed to improve governability. Instead, it can distort election results and leave voters without representation.
Israel Election 2026: What does Yair Golan’s Democrats party stand for?
No. 47: Yair Golan and Gilad Kariv: Reviving Israel’s fractured Left
Yair Golan's Democrats list for the Knesset cements Labor's shift to the far Left - opinion
It's not the party, it's the bloc: Coalitions decide elections
INSIDE POLITICS: The number of parties in each bloc is crucial not only for Election Day, but for designing and defining the campaign.
Meretz, Labor reach tentative surplus vote-sharing agreement
The agreement stipulates that after being allocated their number of seats in the Knesset, the two parties pool their votes together in an attempt to win one of the "leftover" seats.
Activists call for Labor-Meretz merger ahead of elections
Michaeli has consistently refused to enter negotiations with Meretz, arguing that the two parties were different. Galon, on the other hand, supports such a move.
What are questions that remain for Israel's political parties - analysis
With the primary season over, which questions remain for Israel's political parties?
Grapevine August 26, 2022: Happy anniversary
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
Israel elections: With primary elections over, focus returns to mergers
Will Meretz merge with Labor? Will Religious Zionist Party fold to Itamar Ben-Gvir's demands?
Zehava Galon wins Meretz primary election, Horowitz drops out of Knesset
Galon beats Golan in Meretz leadership race, Raz and Rozin jump into top three, pushing him down to fifth place, and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz crashes out of the Knesset.
Meretz, Religious Zionism primary elections coming up on Tuesday
The Religious Zionism primary election comes in the wake of Otzma Yehudit leader MK Itamar Ben Gvir's announcement on August 15 that his party will run independently.
Israel Elections: Eisenkot gives National Unity 2 seats – poll
Following the split between Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, Otzma Yehudit won 7 seats versus Religious Zionism's 5 ahead of Israeli elections.
Israel has forgotten what normality is - Haredi Meretz candidate Kaplan
"There is nothing on the Meretz platform that a haredi person, that a person who has 'yirat shamayaim', fear of heaven [cannot support]."
