Labor nominates MK Efrat Rayten for Judicial Selection Committee

By Carrie Keller-Lynn 29 May 2023, 3:09 pm

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Carrie Keller-Lynn is a former political and legal correspondent for The Times of Israel

Labor MK Efrat Rayten speaks during a democracy conference at the Reichman University in Herzliya, January 5, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

The Labor party is putting forward MK Efrat Rayten as its candidate for the Knesset’s Judicial Selection Committee election, according to party leader Merav Michaeli.

But Michaeli, speaking at her party’s Knesset faction meeting, says that Labor will get behind a decision made by the entire opposition, and calls on all opposition parties — including Arab parties — to convene to choose a candidate.

“We completely agree” that the opposition parties can’t split the vote in next week’s election, which would jeopardize the opposition’s ability to place a representative of its own on the panel.

Michaeli declines to answer whether she will run in the Labor party’s next primary, amid her party’s crashing support in public polls.