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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 477

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Labor Party chairman Avi Gabbay addresses supporters and media, as the results in the elections are announced at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 9, 2019. (Flash90)
May 13, 2019, 8:42 pm
Labor set to pick new leader in November as Gabbay clings to power
Party head will face uphill battle, after leading center-left stalwart to its worst-ever result in last month’s national ballot, but may be aided by quick timing of primary
By Raoul Wootliff and Shalom Yerushalmi
Labor Party chairman Avi Gabbay addresses supporters and media, as the results in the elections are announced at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 9, 2019. (Flash90)
April 17, 2019, 6:39 pm
Labor leader to move up party primaries, set to bow out, after stunning loss
Avi Gabbay not expected to seek reelection after center-left party fell to worst-ever six seats in last week’s election
By ToI Staff
Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay leads a meeting at the Knesset in front of a poster of slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, November 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/via JTA)
April 6, 2019, 8:20 am
Once ubiquitous Labor struggles ahead of elections
Party of Ben-Gurion, Rabin dominated politics for decades after Israel’s founding, but has lost ground as peace prospects wane and the national mood shifts to the right
By Jonah Mandel
Then-prime minister Shimon Peres meets with the Nahal Brigade on October 16, 1986. (Gil Ne'eh/Bamahane/Defense Ministry Archives)
September 28, 2016, 5:32 pm
Peres, a man of peace, made Israel a military powerhouse
By bringing fighter jets and, allegedly, nuclear weapons to the Jewish state, Shimon Peres gave the tiny country the tools to survive
By Judah Ari Gross
President Shimon Peres in 2009 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 28, 2016, 5:19 am
Beloved abroad, polarizing at home, Peres was the peace-making face of Israel
Ultimately respected as Israel’s elder statesman, Peres — who was prime minister and president but never won a popular vote — enjoyed a uniquely lengthy and turbulent political career
By Raphael Ahren
Dany Bahar
October 28, 2012, 4:05 pm
Dany Bahar
Invitation to a bloc party: Why now’s the time for Israel’s center-left to unite
If there is something we can learn from Netanyahu, it’s that political alliances can win elections
A woman reads the free daily Israel Hayom. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 26, 2012, 2:27 pm
Beer and bombs
New taxes on the cold ‘n’ bubbly and smokes went into effect overnight, and Iran gets more centrifuges online
By Ilan Ben Zion
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