In Meretz and religious Zionism there was no "change of generations" as in Labor and Likud, but the list compiled yesterday (Tuesday) by members of these parties betrays the DNA and mindset of those who support these parties.
The representatives of the left parties know that in every election they will find themselves caught in a merciless battle for survival.
The king who was enthroned only yesterday may find himself thrown under the wheels of the bus today.
When the next star is already shining brightly, after the celebrations and joy, he also knows in the secret of his heart that next time he will be the one who cries bitterly when the results of the elections are announced.
Not infrequently, Knesset members complain about energy and work, including the leaders of the parties themselves, whose home audience is too frenetic, lacks sentiments.
They change the heads and members of the Knesset with the speed of socks.
This is what happened yesterday in Meretz, when the current chairman was relegated to the unrealistic seventh place. And all this happens after Meretz, for the first time in many years, took part in government, and he, Horowitz, served as minister, the most senior that the party had, and recorded quite a bit Achievements addressed directly to the audience of his voters, especially on the LGBT issue.
In the seventh and unrealistic place, after Meretz has been in power for the first time in years.
Horowitz, photo: Yehoshua Yosef
But today's Meretz is not built to sit in the government.
None of the three women survived.
Everyone will be outside the Knesset.
Two, Frige and Zandberg, understood in time the mind of their constituents and resigned voluntarily.
Horowitz, who decided to stay, was shown the door yesterday.
Also in the Labor Party, by the way, which became a twin party to Meretz, Ministers Omar Bar-Lev and Nachman Shai were pushed out of the list's realistic range.
Meretz and Labor sell illusions and the partnership in the government shatters them one by one.
How convenient it is to shout from the outside 'enough for the occupation' and support those who break the silence.
How difficult it is to do this from within the cabinet that authorizes soldiers to operate in the territories without interference.
Zehava Galon won a battle that many in the party saw as not just a political struggle but an existential struggle for the image of the party.
Golan, in his ranks and statements, represents in their eyes exactly what the ministers represent: reconciliation with the Zionist enterprise, with the state and with the "occupation".
Those who won yesterday were precisely the oppositionists, who sat in the coalition but raised voices against it: Mossi Raz, Michal Rosin and Ali Salalha.
Galeon and List of Meretz.
Not built to sit in the government, photo: Gideon Markovich
In religious Zionism the picture is the opposite.
Conservatism won here again this time.
The functionaries understood well the message of "diversity" and "classical religious Zionism", and obeyed.
Ofir Sofer and Simcha Rothman in front.
Zvi Sukkot from the back.
The settler militias from Hebron and Yosh mainly promoted Orit Struck, but they also realized that it was better to stop there and not compile a list that was entirely in their image and likeness.
Yesterday, the head of the opposition Netanyahu decided that he was no longer waiting for the renewal of negotiations between religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit, and began to work openly to bring them together. At the same time, it seems that with such a list that was drawn up yesterday, and with the steps that Itamar Ben-Gvir has already begun to take to run alone, the path to unity will be This time is more difficult and twisted than ever.
Samaritanism won.
Religious Zionism, photo: Yossi Zeliger
Netanyahu calls for unification.
Ben Gvir and Smotrich,
were we wrong
We will fix it!
If you found an error in the article, we would appreciate it if you shared it with us