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Labor Party
מפלגת העבודה‎
ChairmanMerav Michaeli
Secretary GeneralEran Hermoni[1]
Founded21 January 1968; 56 years ago (1968-01-21)
Merger ofMapai
Ahdut HaAvoda
Rafi
HeadquartersTel Aviv, Israel
Youth wingIsraeli Young Labor
IdeologySocial democracy
Labor Zionism
Two-state solution[2][3][4]
Political positionCenter-left[5][6]
National affiliationAlignment (1968–1991)
One Israel (1999–2001)
Zionist Union (2014–2019)
European affiliationParty of European Socialists (observer)
International affiliationProgressive Alliance
Colours    Red, blue
Knesset
3 / 120
Election symbol
אמת‎
Website
www.haavoda.org.il

The Israeli Labor Party (Template:Lang-he, translit. Mifleget HaAvoda HaYisrelitⓘ), commonly known as HaAvoda (Template:Lang-he lit. "The Labor"), is a social democratic[7][8][9][10] and Zionist[10][11] political party in Israel. The party was established in 1968 by a merger of Mapai, Ahdut HaAvoda, and Rafi. Until 1977, all Israeli Prime Ministers were affiliated with the Labor movement.[12] The current party leader (since July 2019) is Amir Peretz.

The Labor Party is associated with supporting the Israeli–Palestinian peace process, pragmatic foreign affairs policies and social-democratic economic policies.[13] The party is a member of the Progressive Alliance,[14] an observer member of the Party of European Socialists,[15] and formerly a member of Socialist International.[16][17]

History

Israeli Labor Party ballot slip – "Emet"

Dominant political party 1968–1977

The foundations for the formation of the Israeli Labor Party were laid shortly before the 1965 Knesset elections when Mapai, the largest left-wing party in the country and the dominant partner in every government since independence, formed an alliance with Ahdut HaAvoda.[18] Mapai's Arab satellite lists followed the merger. The alliance was an attempt by Mapai to shore up the party's share of the vote following a break-away of eight MKs (around a fifth of Mapai's Knesset faction) led by former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to form a new party, Rafi, in protest against Mapai's failure to approve a change to the country's proportional representation voting system.

The alliance, called the Labor Alignment won 45 seats in the elections, and was able to form the government in coalition with the National Religious Party, Mapam, the Independent Liberals, Poalei Agudat Yisrael, Progress and Development and Cooperation and Brotherhood. After the Six-Day War broke out, Rafi and Gahal joined the coalition.

On 21 January 1968, Mapai, Ahdut HaAvoda and Rafi (with the exception of Ben-Gurion, who formed the National List in protest) merged into one body, creating the Israeli Labor Party.[19][20]

On 28 January 1969, the party allied itself with Mapam, the alliance becoming known as the Alignment.

As the largest faction within the Alignment, Labor came to dominate it. Mapam left during the eighth Knesset, but rejoined shortly afterwards.

During the 1970s, the welfare state was expanded[21][22] under successive Labor governments, with increases in pension benefits[23] and the creation of new social security schemes such as disability insurance and unemployment insurance in 1970, children's insurance in 1975, vacation pay for adopting parents in 1976,[24] a Family Allowance for Veterans in 1970, a benefit for Prisoners of Zion in 1973, and a mobility benefit and a Volunteers' Rights benefit in 1975.[25] During 1975–76, a modest program of housing rehabilitation was launched in a dozen or so older neighbourhoods,[26] while the Sick Leave Compensation Law of 1976 provided for compensation in cases when employees were absent from work because of illness.[27]

Opposition and comeback 1977–2001

First logo of the Labor Party (1977–1992)
Party logo adopted in 1992, which was used until 2016
Leaning version of the current party logo, adopted in 2016

In the 1977 elections, Labor ended up in opposition for the first time. In the 1984 elections, Labor joined a national unity government with Likud, with the post of Prime Minister rotating between the two parties.

Mapam broke away again during the eleventh Knesset, angry at Shimon Peres's decision to form a national unity government with Likud. Although the Independent Liberals merged into the Alignment in the 1980s, they had no Knesset representation at the time.

On 7 October 1991, the Alignment ceased to exist, with all factions formally merged into the Labor Party. At this time, the Likud government faced numerous problems, such as economic problems, the challenge of assimilating a large influx of immigrants from the former Soviet Union, serious tensions with the American government led by President George H. W. Bush,[why?] and internal division. Led by Yitzhak Rabin, Labor won the 1992 elections and formed the government, together with Meretz and Shas. In domestic policy, the Labor-led government introduced various measures to improve levels of social protection. Better provisions were introduced for single parents[28] and people with disabilities,[29] while income support entitlements were liberalised.[30] The 1994 Law to Reduce Poverty and Income Inequality (which was extended a year later) increased income maintenance grants to needy families, particularly benefitting those sections of society most vulnerable to poverty.[31] In 1995, a national health insurance policy was implemented, making access to health care a right for all Israelis.[32]

Various measures were also introduced to bring greater progressivity into the system of collection of national insurance contributions.[33] A maternity grant for adopting mothers was introduced,[34] together with old-age insurance for housewives,[35] a minimum unemployment allowance,[36] and a partial injury allowance.[37] In addition, investments were made in numerous development projects[38] while affirmative action programmes were launched to hire Palestinian citizens in the public sector, the Ministry of Interior increased the budgets for Arab local councils, and the Ministry of Education increased the budget for Arab education.[39]

The subsequent role of Labor became to a large extent tied to the Oslo Accords, based on the principle "land for peace". The Oslo Accords led to a vote of confidence, which the Government won with a margin of 61–50 (8 abstained). Several MKs from the Government parties declined to support the Government, but on the other hand, the Arab parties came to its rescue. Due to the lack of a constitution in Israel, the Government was able to implement the accords with a thin margin.

Rabin's decision to advance peace talks with the Palestinians to the point of signing the Oslo Accords led to his assassination by Yigal Amir in 1995. Peres decided to call early elections in 1996 to give him a mandate for advancing the peace process. However, his ploy failed; although Labor won the most seats in the Knesset election, he lost to the election for Prime Minister to Benjamin Netanyahu following a wave of suicide bombings by Hamas. Netanyahu and Likud were thus able to form the government.

With his coalition falling apart, Netanyahu decided to call early elections in 1999. Ehud Barak won the internal primaries, and was nominated as the Labor candidate for Prime Minister. Meanwhile, the party entered an electoral alliance with Meimad and Gesher called One Israel. Barak won the Prime Minister election, whilst One Israel won the Knesset elections, albeit with only 26 seats.

Barak started by forming a 75-member coalition, together with Shas, Meretz, Yisrael BaAliyah, the National Religious Party, and United Torah Judaism. The coalition with religious parties (NRP, Shas, and UTJ) caused tensions with the secularist Meretz, who quit the coalition after a disagreement with Shas over the authority of the Deputy Education Minister. The rest of the parties left before the Camp David 2000 summit.

Decline since 2001

Following the October 2000 riots and the violence of the al-Aqsa Intifada, Barak resigned from office. He then lost a special election for Prime Minister to Likud's Ariel Sharon. However, Labor remained in Sharon's coalition as he formed a national unity government with Likud, Labor, Shas, Yisrael BaAliyah and United Torah Judaism, and were given two of the most important cabinet portfolios; Peres was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benjamin Ben-Eliezer was made Defense Minister. Labor supported Operation Defensive Shield, which was conducted in April 2002 against Palestinians in the West Bank. After harsh criticism that Peres and Ben-Elizer were "puppets" of Sharon and not promoting the peace process, Labor quit the government in 2003.

Prior to the 2003 elections, Amram Mitzna won the party primaries, and led the party into the election with a platform that included unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The party was routed in the elections, winning only 19 seats (its lowest ever), whilst Sharon's Likud won 38 (40 after Yisrael BaAliyah merged into the party). Subsequently, due to internal opposition, Mitzna resigned from the party leadership,[40] and soon afterwards was replaced by Shimon Peres. Despite being omitted from the original right-wing coalition, Sharon invited Labor into the coalition to shore up support for the disengagement plan (effectively Mitzna's policy which he had earlier lambasted) after the National Union and the National Religious Party had left the government.

On 8 November 2005, Shimon Peres was replaced as the leader of the Labor party by the election of left-wing Histadrut union leader Amir Peretz in an internal Labor party ballot. Critics of Labor have argued that, over the years, the party had abandoned its socialist heritage in favor of economic and business elites, and had passed the mantle of custodian of the underprivileged to right-wing and religious parties.[41] Peretz stated his intention to reassert Labor's traditional socialist policies, and took the party out of the government. This prompted Sharon to resign and call for new elections in March 2006. Prior to the election, the political map had been redrawn, as Sharon and the majority of Likud's MKs, together with a number of Labor MKs, including Shimon Peres, and some from other parties, had formed the new political party Kadima. In the elections Labor won 19 seats, making it the second largest party after Kadima. It joined Ehud Olmert's Kadima-led government, with Peretz appointed Defense Minister. Labor's main coalition demand and campaign promise was raising the minimum wage.[42]

On 28 May 2007 a leadership election resulted in Ehud Barak and Ami Ayalon defeating Peretz who was pushed into third place. In the run-off election (required as neither Barak nor Ayalon received over 40% of the vote), Barak was re-elected as party chairman. Despite stating that he would withdraw the party from the government unless Olmert resigned,[43] Barak remained in government and took over as Defense Minister.

Prior to the 2009 elections Labor and Meimad ended their alliance, with Meimad ultimately running a joint list with the Green Movement (which did not pass the electoral threshold). Several prominent members left the party, including Ami Ayalon, and Efraim Sneh (who formed Yisrael Hazaka). In the elections, Labor was reduced to just 13 seats, making it the fourth largest party behind Kadima, Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu.

Analysing the downfall of the once dominant political party in Israel, Efraim Inbar of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies points to several factors. By forfeiting identification with the establishment and building of the State of Israel, symbolised by a predilection for military service and by the settling of the land of Israel, Labor lost its most important asset. Deserting the Zionist symbol of Jerusalem, by showing willingness to cede part of it to the Palestinians was an ill-fated move. When cosmopolitan and individualist values made inroads into the party, it distanced itself from the collectivist ethos that has been dominant and is still widespread in Israel. Their association with the Oslo Accords meant that they could not avoid being discredited by its failure. Demographic factors have worked against Labor, as the growing Sefardi population, as well as the recent Russian-Jewish immigrants, have largely voted for other parties. Attempts to gain the support of the Israeli Arab voters have damaged the image of the party, and yielded no harvest.[41]

Seats held by the Labor party since its founding.

On 17 January 2011, disillusionment with party leader Ehud Barak, over his support for coalition policies, especially regarding the peace process, led to Barak's resignation from the Labor Party with four other Knesset members to establish a new "centrist, Zionist and democratic" party, Independence. Following this move, all Labor Party government ministers resigned.

Two days after the split, a group of prominent members of Israel's business, technology, and cultural communities including Jerusalem Venture Partners founder Erel Margalit founded the "Avoda Now" movement calling for a revival of the Labor Party. The movement launched a public campaign calling the people to support the Labor Party, with the aim of renewing its institutions, restore its social values, and choose new dynamic leadership.[44]

Shelly Yachimovich was elected leader in 2011 saying "I promise that we will work together. This is just the beginning of a new start for Israeli society." She was congratulated by many in the party including her one-time rival Amir Peretz.[45] Yachimovich was replaced as leader by Isaac Herzog in 2013.

In the 2013 legislative election held on 22 January 2013, Labor received 11.39% of the national vote, winning 15 seats.[46]

On 10 December 2014, party leader Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni, leader and founder of the Hatnuah party, announced an electoral alliance to contest the upcoming legislative election.[47] In the 2015 legislative election on 7 March 2015, the joint list Zionist Union received 24 seats in the Knesset, of which 19 belong to the Labor Party. Both parties remained independent parties while both represented by the Zionist Union faction in the Knesset. The partnership continued after Avi Gabbay was elected chairman of the party on 10 July 2017, until 1 January 2019, when Gabbay announced the dissolution of the union unilaterally.[48]

On 10 July 2018, the Labor Party suspended its membership of the Socialist International after the international adopted a policy of BDS towards Israel.[49]

Labor's support collapsed in the April 2019 legislative election, being reduced to only 4,43% of votes and 6 seats, marking it as the worst result in the party's history. Anger at Gabbay intensified, with poor election results, and negotiating with the right to join a Netanyahu led government. Longtime party member Peretz criticized Gabbay, tweeting "We will not enter or sit in his [Netanyahu] government. Every other option is a violation of everything we promised to the public"[50] Gabbay resigned in June.[51]

In July 2019, Amir Peretz was elected as the new leader of the Labor party.[52] A few weeks later, on 18 July 2019, ahead of the September 2019 election, Amir Peretz merged the party with the Gesher party, giving Gesher multiple spots on Labor's candidate list.[53]

On 12 January 2020, Labor announced that it was negotiating a joint list with Meretz to prevent the possibility of either party not making the electoral threshold and not entering the Knesset.[54] Labor and Meretz announced a joint run on 13 January 2020,[55] with the Labor party central committee voting in favor of ratification of the alliance the following day.[56] Meretz approved the alliance on 14 January.[57] The alliance submitted its list on 15 January under the name Labor-Gesher-Meretz.[58]

In March 2020, Gesher's only MK Orly Levy announced that she was splitting from the union due to their support of Benny Gantz's efforts to set up a minority government with the Joint List, with him as Prime Minister.[59] Gantz later abandoned that effort and instead joined a "national unity coronavirus government" headed by Benjamin Netanyahu. After repeatedly promising not to join a government headed by Netanyahu,[60][50][61] Peretz decided to bring Labor into that coalition headed by Netanyahu to "promote social justice" along with Gantz.[62]

On 22 April 2020, it was announced that Labor Party leader Amir Peretz would serve as Israel's Economic Minister as a result of a coalition agreement which was made following the 2020 Israeli legislative election and will coordinate with Blue and White on parliamentary matters and policy issues.[63][64][65] Despite agreeing to join the new government, Peretz also stated that he and other Labor MKs will still vote against a proposed West Bank annexation plan.[66] On 26 April 2020, 64.2% of the Labor Party's 3,840 central committee members approved of Peretz's decision to join the new government.[67][68] During the coalition talks, the party was under negotiations with Blue and White to implement a merger.[69] On 17 May 2020, Peretz was officially sworn in at the new Israeli economic minister.[70] Labor member Itzik Shmuli also joined the Israeli government after being sworn in as Israel's Minister of Welfare.[70]

Political principles

Past

Mapai evolved from the socialist Poale Zion movement and adhered to the Socialist Zionist ideology promulgated by Nahum Syrkin and Ber Borochov. Under Ben-Gurion's leadership (1930–1954), Mapai focused mainly on a Zionist agenda, as establishing a homeland for the Jewish people was seen as the most urgent issue.

After the founding of the state of Israel, Mapai engaged in nation building—the establishment of the Israel Defense Forces (while dismantling every other armed group), the establishment of many settlements, the settling of more than 1,000,000 Jewish immigrants and the desire to unite all the inhabitants of Israel under a new Zionist Jewish Israeli culture (an ideology known as the "Melting pot" כור היתוך).

Labor in the past was more hawkish on security and defense issues than it is now. During its years in office, Israel fought the 1956 Sinai War, the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War.

Current

Labor's original socialist ideology has evolved into a programme that supports a mixed economy with strong social welfare programmes. In the post–Cold War era, the party's foreign policy retains a strong orientation toward the United States, and its security policy maintains that a permanent peace with the Palestinians can only be based on agreements that are enforceable.[71] Along with other center-left Israeli parties, it is committed to the continued existence of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. It believes in maintaining a strong defense force and also supports the promotion of individual human rights. It supports most Supreme Court decisions on the latter issue, as well as the adoption of a written constitution that would entrench human rights.[71]

In November 2005, Amir Peretz, leader of the social-democratic One Nation which had merged into Labor after a split in 1999,[72] was elected chairman of the party, defeating Shimon Peres. Under Peretz, especially in the 2006 electoral campaign, the party took a significant ideological turn, putting social and economic issues on top of its agenda, and advocating a moderate social-democratic approach (including increases in minimum wage and social security payments), in sharp contrast to the neoliberal policies led by former Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Party leaders


 Leader Took office Left office Prime Ministerial tenure
style="background: Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color: white" | 1 Levi Eshkol 1968 1969 1963–1969
style="background: Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color: white" | 2 Golda Meir 1969 1974 1969–1974
style="background: Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color: white" | 3 Yitzhak Rabin 1974 1977 1974–1977
style="background: Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color: white" | 4 Shimon Peres 1977 1992 1984–1986
style="background: Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color: white" | (3) Yitzhak Rabin 1992 1995 1992–1995
style="background: Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color: white" | (4) Shimon Peres 1995 1997 1995–1996
style="background: Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color: white" | 5 Ehud Barak 1997 2001 1999–2001

Leader Took office Left office
style="background: Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color: white" | 6 Binyamin Ben-Eliezer 2001 2002
style="background: Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color: white" | 7 Amram Mitzna 2002 2003
style="background: Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color: white" | (4) Shimon Peres 2003 2005
style="background: Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color: white" | 8 Amir Peretz 2005 2007
style="background: Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color: white" | (5) Ehud Barak 2007 2011
style="background: Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color: white" | 9 Shelly Yachimovich 2011 2013
style="background: Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color: white" | 10 Isaac Herzog 2013 2017
style="background: Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color: white" | 11 Avi Gabbay 2017 2019
style="background: Template:Israeli Labor Party/meta/color; color: white" | (8) Amir Peretz 2019 Incumbent

Other prominent members

Prominent former members include:

Election results

Election Votes % Seats +/– Leader Status
1969 Part of the Alignment
49 / 120
 Golda Meir Government
1973 Part of the Alignment
44 / 120
 Decrease 5 Golda Meir Government
1977 Part of the Alignment
28 / 120
 Decrease 16 Shimon Peres Opposition
1981 Part of the Alignment
40 / 120
 Increase 12 Shimon Peres Opposition
1984 Part of the Alignment
37 / 120
 Decrease 3 Shimon Peres Government
1988 Part of the Alignment
39 / 120
 Decrease 4 Shimon Peres Government (1988–1990)
Opposition (1990–1992)
1992 906,810 (#1) 34.7
44 / 120
 Increase 5 Yitzhak Rabin Government
1996 818,741 (party) (#1) 26.8
34 / 120
 Decrease 10 Shimon Peres Opposition
1,471,566 (prime ministerial) (#2) 49.5
1999 Part of One Israel
23 / 120
 Decrease 11 Ehud Barak Government (1999–2002)
Opposition (2002–2003)
2003 455,183 (#2)
(with Meimad) 		14.5
18 / 120
 Decrease 5 Amram Mitzna Opposition (2003–2005)
Government (2005)
Opposition (2005–2006)
2006 472,366 (#2)
(with Meimad) 		15.1
18 / 120
 Steady Amir Peretz Government
2009 334,900 (#4) 9.9
13 / 120
 Decrease 5 Ehud Barak Government (2009–2011)
Opposition (2011–2013)
2013 432,118 (#3) 11.4
15 / 120
 Increase 2 Shelly Yachimovich Opposition
2015 Part of the Zionist Union
19 / 120
 Increase 4 Isaac Herzog Opposition
April 2019 190,870 (#6) 4.43
6 / 120
 Decrease 13 Avi Gabbay Snap election
September 2019 Part of Labor-Gesher
5 / 120
 Decrease 1 Amir Peretz Snap election
2020 Part of Labor-Gesher-Meretz
3 / 120
 Decrease 2 Amir Peretz Government[nb 1]
2021 TBD TBD
0 / 120
 TBD TBD TBD

Current MKs

Year Members Total
2019–2020 Amir Peretz, Itzik Shmuli, Merav Michaeli, Omer Bar-Lev, Revital Swid 5
2020– Amir Peretz, Itzik Shmuli, Merav Michaeli 3

Notes

  1. ^ Labor MKs Amir Peretz and Itzik Shmuli joined while MK Merav Michaeli did not.

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