The MK delivered a speech after being elected in the primaries • "Represented everyone", she promised • According to her, "Just like the Labor Party, the State of Israel and Israeli society also need healing and rehabilitation"
"The Labor Party is still deep in the mud, and I have the task of rescuing it and rebuilding it":
The new chairman of the Labor Party, MK Merav Michaeli, delivered a speech tonight (Sunday) after she was elected party leader.
Michaeli, this morning // Photo: Elad Malka
"Friends and friends, it's time to go home. You and I who lied to you and cheated on you and took your voice - come home, come to the house of truth," she said.
"I call on anyone who feels that politics does not represent it, anyone who feels that politics does not make its voice heard - come home. Even if the Labor Party has not been your home in the past, I promise to represent you all. This is a very exciting moment for me because I was elected "To lead the movement led by the founders of the state, from David Ben-Gurion to Yitzhak Rabin. But it is also exciting that we saved this movement at the last minute from being erased from the political map."
Michaeli clarified that: "I understand the magnitude of the hour. Together we will restore trust in the party, we will return the truth to politics, and then we can also return to being a ruling party again. It will not happen in one day, but today we start rebuilding and the way there."
"Starting and starting over"
"I had the right to be elected by 77% of the votes, and 77, as we all know well, is a number of upheavals," she added.
"As part of the struggle I won over the existence of primaries in the party, there will be primaries for the list. Simultaneously with the collapse of Labor, the State of Israel deviated very far from the Zionist vision that established it. The struggle for the Labor Party is a struggle for the future of the State of Israel." Israelis need healing and rehabilitation.
"The Labor Party under my leadership will return to leading a political-security alternative and will work for the return of the strategic alliance with the United States. We will support a renewed agreement with Iran, in dialogue with the Gulf states, to halt the nuclear program that has been raging since the US withdrew.
"We will continue to look for ways to implement the two-state solution, which is in the first place for the security of the State of Israel, and for its existence as the state of the sovereign, democratic and prosperous Jewish people," she noted.
According to Michaeli, "The Labor Party under my leadership will continue the vision of public infrastructure for social services such as the HMOs, which are now allowing us to carry out the vaccinations, and correct the mistakes made and fight for higher education for all who grew up in neighborhoods and development towns. The Labor Party will also fight for neighborhood rehabilitation. "Today we are erasing and erasing the dust that has settled on us in recent years. Beginning and starting anew. The Labor Party is renewing itself today and is attacking the future of the State of Israel."