Meretz

Meretz has so little support among Israeli voters that it didn’t win a single seat in the last Knesset elections.

Neither of the two leftwing parties, Labor and Meretz, is likely to win enough votes to gain seats in the Knesset if there is an election in the next year, she said.

Yosi Havilio, a current deputy mayor, is running with the backing of the Yesh Atid, Meretz and Labor national parties against current Mayor Moshe Lion, who is a member of Likud.

The Sephardi orthodox even in the Rabin government formed in 1992 alongside the left-wing and decidedly secular Meretz party.

As the Democratic Camp’s constituent factions have yet to agree on a joint run, Channel 12 had Meretz, the largest party in the alliance, receiving four seats, whereas the new Green Party would fail to clear the minimum electoral threshold.

Former IDF deputy chief of staff Yair Golan, who merged with Meretz as part of Ehud Barak’s Democratic Israel party before the previous elections will be placed seventh on the list.

Members of Labor-Gesher and Meretz on Monday welcomed the news of a new alliance between the parties, hailing it as ushering in a new hopeful period for their peace-seeking, progressive agenda.

Right-wing figures redoubled pleas for an alliance between a group of small parties in the camp Monday morning as news broke of a between Labor-Gesher and Meretz.

The Joint Arab List would increase to 14 seats and the Labor-Gesher-Meretz union would win ten seats, one less than the previous elections when Labor -Gesher won 6 seats and the Democratic Union won 5 seats.

The left-wing Meretz party says it has signed an agreement to renew the Democratic Camp alliance for the upcoming elections as well, making MK Yair Golan — originally from Ehud Barak’s Israel Democratic Party — No. 3 on the slate of candidates.

This faction of voters could be drawn to the left by the Labor-Meretz deal.

But ahead of the September elections, Meretz made the decision to close off its primary to only members of the party’s central committee.

But all three would be risking their base support in an arrangement that would rely on Meretz and the Arabs for its day-to-day existence.

For a time, many Israelis, especially those who identified with the left-wing, social democratic Labor and Meretz parties, joined Oz in promoting an idealized view of Palestinian intentions and a self-flagellating opinion of Israeli policy.

Meretz is too far to the left and the Joint Arab List is too, well, Arab.

Meretz received 108 votes there, compared to Kahol Lavan’s 98. Kahol Lavan received only some 200 votes less than Hadash-Ta’al, led by Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi, the second largest Arab party in town, far behind Ra’am and Balad.

Nitzan Horowitz was voted Thursday chairman of Israeli left-wing party Meretz, overcoming current chairwoman Tamar Zandberg.

Of the Jewish parties that ran in the April election, Meretz was the most popular among Arab voters.

The Democratic Union, meanwhile won 14 percent of the vote, up from 9 percent in the previous round when it was still known as Meretz.

This union brought together the Meretz Party, former Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s Israel Democratic Party and Knesset member Stav Shaffir from the Labor Party.