Labor activists believe that Merav Michaeli's election as chairman will jumpstart the faltering party • One thing they are sure of: "The main thing is that Bibi dismantled Blue and White, because it will give us lost votes."
Amar Bar-Lev, who came in first in the primaries and Labor chairman Merav Michaeli
Photography:
Joshua Yosef and Gideon Markovich
"Listen carefully, with an investment of 40,000 shekels you will become a Knesset member," this discourse caught the passers-by that the Labor Party has been doing something for them in recent weeks, which of course explained the large number of participants in the primaries, which stood at more than 50. All polls still scratch the blocking percentage if you do not unite soon.
Even in the zoom call the night before the premieres the contestants tried to convince that their wares still have a chance among those who believe in the party that founded the state.
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In the kibbutz movement's house at the only real polling station in Tel Aviv, activists gathered in the evening who want to feel the taste of elections in an era of zoom.
The despair that usually characterizes the Israeli left is replaced by cynicism: "If Ron Huldai wants to join, he should go back on the list, he is a pilot who forgot to land.
"Menachem Begin made one mistake throughout his time in politics," says Amnon Mageni Tikva, showing us his voter list and standing in the Tel Aviv cold all dressed in red of the Labor Party, "If he had deleted the Histadrut in 1977 none of us would have "Here because there was no Labor Party. But he did not do it and now we here are still fantasizing about between five and seven seats in the next election."
