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Political Realignment: Labor and Meretz merge
The two parties made the astonishing decision to merge into a single entity representing the Israeli Left. Yossi Klein Halevi and Donniel Hartman discuss what it means.
Labor party chief Yair Golan holds a joint weekly faction meeting with Meretz following their merger under the name The Democrats, in the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 1, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
On Sunday, June 30, Israel’s Labor and Meretz parties made the astonishing decision to merge into a single entity representing the Israeli Left.
In this episode, Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi identify the shift in attitudes and priorities across Israeli politics since October 7 and speculate on who may replace Netanyahu as Israel’s next Prime Minister.
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