Haim Ramon is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1983 and 2009,and as both Vice Prime Minister and Minister in the Prime Minister's Office with responsibility for state policy.
Abraham Hirschson was an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Likud and Kadima between 1981 and 1984,and again from 1992 until 2009. He also held the posts of Minister of Communications,Minister of Finance and Minister of Tourism. He resigned following allegations of corruption,and was ultimately convicted of stealing close to 2 million shekels from the National Workers Labor Federation while he was its chairman.
Young Meretz is the young adult wing of the Israeli political party Meretz. All members of Meretz aged 18–35 are automatically members of YM. Additionally,YM activates student groups in university and college campuses throughout Israel,where the activists are not necessarily registered members of the mother party. YMY is subject to the guidelines and statutes of the mother party,but also enjoy a substantial extent of autonomy. For example,it is not bound by coalition agreements.
Yair Tzaban is an Israeli politician,academic and social activist.
Yisrael Kessar was an Israeli politician who served as a Knesset member for the Alignment and Labor Party between 1984 and 1996.
Nitzan Horowitz is a politician and former journalist who served as Israel's Minister of Health from 2021 to 2022. He is the former leader of Meretz. He previously was the chief U.S. correspondent and commentator for the Israeli News Company,known as Channel 2 News.
Yair Golan is an Israeli politician and leader of the Democrats party and a senior military officer. He served as the Deputy Minister of Economy in the Thirty-sixth Israeli government,and served as a Member of the Knesset representing Meretz from 2019–2022. He is a reserve major general (Aluf) in the Israel Defense Forces. During his military service he served,among other roles,as the IDF Deputy Chief of Staff,Commander of the Home Front Command and Commander of the Northern Command. In May 2024,Golan was elected leader of the Israeli Labor Party on a platform of merging the party with the rival left-wing party,Meretz. On 30 June 2024,the two parties announced an agreement to form a new party,The Democrats. The agreement,which designates Golan leader of the new party,was approved by both parties' congresses on 12 July 2024.
Aharon Becker was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1955 and 1974.
Akiva Nof is an Israeli poet and songwriter,composer,politician,lawyer and a journalist,who served three terms as a member of the Knesset between 1974 and 1984.
Tamar Zandberg is an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Environmental Protection from 2021 to 2022. Zandberg also served as a member of the Knesset for Meretz from 2013 to 2021,and as the party's leader between 2018 and 2019.
Meretz Youth is the youth wing of the Israeli political party Meretz. The organization was founded in 1992,after the union between the Israeli political parties Mapam and Ratz. The first coordinator of Meretz Youth was Ilan Gilon.
Zvi Hauser is an Israeli lawyer and public figure served as the 17th cabinet secretary. Hauser served as a Member of Knesset between 2019-2022. During this term he held a number of positions including:Deputy Speaker of the Knesset,Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and Head of the Israel-Japan Parliamentary Friendship Association.
Zehava Galon,is an Israeli politician,the president of the research institute ZULAT for Equality and Human Rights and former leader of Meretz.
Meretz was a left-wing political party in Israel. The party was formed in 1992 by the merger of Ratz,Mapam and Shinui,and was at its peak between 1992 and 1996 when it had 12 seats. It had no seats in the Knesset following its failure to pass the electoral threshold in the 2022 elections,the first time it failed to win seats in the Knesset since the party's inception.
Gabriela "Gaby" Lasky Schutz is an Israeli politician,attorney,feminist,human rights activist,and social activist. From 2021 until 2022 she served as a member of the Knesset representing Meretz. She was a member of the Tel Aviv city council between 2013 and 2018,representing Meretz,and was the secretary general of the Israeli peace organization Peace Now. As a human rights attorney,Lasky documents and responds to cases of torture,false imprisonment,and police brutality within Israel,Gaza,and the West Bank.
Abraham Daniel "Avi" Nissenkorn is an Israeli lawyer and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Blue and White from 2019 to 2021,and as Minister of Justice from 2020 to 2021. He previously served as General Secretary (chairman) of the Histadrut labor union between June 2014 and March 2019. He currently serves as Chairperson of the Executive Board of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Amichai Chikli is an Israeli politician who serves as the Minister of Diaspora Affairs. He served in the 24th Knesset as part of the Yamina party slate,and in the 25th Knesset as part of Likud.
Labor-Gesher-Meretz or Emet,known as Labor-Meretz from March to April 2020,was an Israeli centre-left electoral list composed of three parties –the Israeli Labor Party,Gesher and Meretz. The list ran in the 2020 legislative election,led by Amir Peretz,chairman of the Labor Party. The list received seven seats in the election,of which three were for Labor,one was for Gesher and three were for Meretz.
The 2022 Meretz leadership election was held on 23 August 2022 in the leadup to the 2022 Israeli legislative election. On 12 July,incumbent Nitzan Horowitz announced that he would not seek re-election as leader. Former party leader Zehava Galon defeated former deputy Chief of the General Staff Yair Golan.
The Democrats is a left-of-centre political party in Israel,formed by the merger of the Israeli Labor Party and Meretz in July 2024. It is led by Yair Golan,who was the Labor Party leader prior to the merger and previously served as an MK for the Democratic Union before joining Meretz.
