Golan previously served as a member of the Knesset within Meretz. He ran for leadership of Meretz ahead of the November 2022 election and lost to Zehava Galon.
Other than Golan, the only other person to announce her candidacy is current Labor MK Efrat Rayten.
Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.
The groups declared that the merger made sense because the groups complemented one another.
As the pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian PR war goes on, I realize that the radical left has abandoned its values to support pro-Palestinian antisemitism.
According to the poll, a reservists’ party headed by Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli (Likud) would win eight seats.
The authentic growth of Israeli Judaism, emerging naturally and accepted broadly, will be the defining journey of the next generation.
Being left-wing involves, inter alia, seeking peace and believing in humanism, the welfare state, and a mixed economy. There is no reason for the Israeli Left to disappear.
As a skilled manipulator, Netanyahu strives to inculcate that Judaism and the Left are diametrically opposed, in which case the Left threatens our very basic identity as Jews.