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The 2024 Israeli Labor Party leadership election is scheduled to be held on 28 May 2024 to elect a successor to Merav Michaeli as leader of the Israeli Labor Party.
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The 2024 Israeli Labor Party leadership election is scheduled to be held on 28 May 2024 to elect a successor to Merav Michaeli as leader of the Israeli Labor Party.
Michaeli was first elected leader of the Israeli Labor Party in the party's 2021 leadership election. Prior to her election as the party's leader, opinion polling for the 2021 Knesset election had the party falling below the electoral threshold. However, the party's support in polling recovered after her election as its leader, [1] and the party won seven seats in the 2021 Knesset election. [2] Michaeli was re-elected as party leader in 2022, becoming the first Israeli Labor Party leader to win two consecutive leadership elections since 1984, and the only one to do it after the party first opened participation in leadership elections to all party members in 1992. [3]
Labor won four seats in the 2022 Knesset election (the minimum number of Knesset seats that an individual electoral bloc could receive if they exceeded the electoral threshold). Michaeli faced heavy criticism for her decision not to partner Labor in the election with the left-wing Meretz party, especially after the election's results came in. Meretz won no seats due to falling narrowly below the electoral threshold, which helped Likud and hard-right ally parties win enough seats to form a right-wing governing majority. [4] The Labor Party soon fell below the electoral threshold in opinion polling for the next Israeli legislative election. [5]
On 7 December 2023, Michaeli announced her intentions to relinquish her position as party leader and retire from politics after the end of the 25th Knesset. As a result, the party prepared to hold a leadership election in April 2024. [6]
The same day that Michaeli announced her plan to step down, Meretz chairman Tomer Reznik proposed that Labor hold its primaries jointly with Meretz. [7]
On 25 February 2024, the party set 28 May as the date of the leadership election. [8]
On 26 February 2024, Yair Golan announced his candidacy. Golan is the former deputy chief of the Israel Defense Forces and a former Knesset member. Golan had first been elected to the Knesset in the September 2019 election on the list of the Democratic Union alliance, [9] Golan was re-elected to the Knesset in 2020 and 2021, [13] and served until the party fell below the electoral threshold in 2022. Ahead of the 2022 election, Golan had run unsuccessfully in the 2022 Meretz leadership election. Golan had received praise within Israel for his actions to rescue those caught in the Re'im music festival massacre during Hamas' 7 October 2023 attack. In his campaign for Labor party leadership, Golan has declared he wants to merge Labor with Meretz under a "new political framework". [9]
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