Left wing israel

Who is Gadi Taub , the Labor prince who became the Israeli Left’s fiercest critic?

The historian, author and podcaster on his political journey, why he still backs Netanyahu, and what he calls the Left's "license to fabricate narratives".

Gadi Taub sits down with Editor-in-chief Zvika Klein to retrace the defection that took him from Peace Now demonstrations to the front line of the fight over Israel's Supreme Court, its media and its national identity.
A haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protester argues with a police officer outside the Jerusalem IDF recruitment center, April 12, 2026.

Almost half of Israelis support tougher sanctions, pressure to promote haredi conscription - poll

Israelis attend a protest march against the decision of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire head of Shin Bat Ronen Bar, at the entrance to Jerusalem, March 19, 2025.

Israel’s biggest threats demand unity, not partisan warfare - opinion

THE MAIN rehearsal of the 78th anniversary Independence Day ceremony, held at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem.

Independence Day and the new reality - opinion


Left-wing MKs accuse Netanyahu of starting war for political advantage

The comments drew criticism from MKs on the Right and the Left

Labor MK Omer Bar-Lev 370

Yair Golan: The Right-Wing is Neither Jewish nor Zionist

Comments come amid past controversial statements attributed to Golan

Yair Golan

The revolutionary who changed Israel more than Aharon Barak

The truth is that former Supreme Court President Meir Shamgar in many ways started the judicial activist revolution long before Barak.

Meir Shamgar, former Supreme Court president

Likud: Left-wing activists provide rides for Bedouin voters against law

The Likud Party requested that the head of the Central Elections Committee order the organization and activists to disperse.

A Bedouin man casts his ballot in Knesset elections on April 9, 2019

Bibi, Right for Israel or Left for disaster

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu votes Tuesday in Jerusalem

Democratic Union leader Nitzan Horowitz, champion of the Left

Sitting in the Democratic Union campaign offices in Tel Aviv this week, Horowitz sought to explain why the left-wing has been so bereft of power and influence for so long.

Democratic Union leader Nitzan Horowitz

The House gets it right on BDS

"A powerful statement demonstrating that an overwhelming bipartisan majority rejects BDS."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) administers the oath of office to House members and delegates of the U.S. House of Representatives at the start of the 116th Congress inside the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 3, 2019

Ideological compromises

Larger parties mean less votes that go to waste for parties that do not cross the 3.25% threshold – Zehut and the New Right are two examples from the last election.

Israel Democratic Party's Ehud Barak, MK Stav Shaffir and Meretz's Nitzan Horowitz of the Democratic Camp

Shmuli slams Shaffir, signaling he won't bolt Labor for new left-wing bloc

Blue and White invites him to join

STAV SHAFFIR: The world sees us as only Netanyahu, and his voice is the only voice they hear

Labor will not be joining left-wing bloc, sources say

The Democratic Union was formed on Thursday by Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz, former prime minister Ehud Barak and Labor MK Stav Shaffir.

Amir Peretz is joined in the Labor Party by Orly Levy-Abekasis.