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Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay discusses a bill to dissolve the 21st Knesset, May 29, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Labor’s Avi Gabbay steps down as leader, announces retirement from politics

In a Facebook post, he wrote: “The party is in a great crisis, and I do not absolve myself of responsibility.”

June 12, 2019

Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay discusses a bill to dissolve the 21st Knesset, May 29, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Labor leader Avi Gabbay says he will not vie for party leadership again

The decision was the next logical step in light of Labor’s poor showing in the April 9 general election, which saw the party dwindle to just six mandates.

Yori Yalon

June 11, 2019

Zionist Union Party leader Avi Gabbay and opposition leader Tzipi Livni during a statement in the Knesset on Jan. 1, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israeli Labor officials said to explore ways to replace Avi Gabbay as party leader

Ahead of the party’s Feb. 11 primaries, Knesset member Eitan Cabel says, “We must not let the Labor party die.”

Yori Yalon

January 4, 2019

Israeli Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay at a press conference in Tel Aviv on Oct. 1, 2017. Credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Knesset opposition cheers news of upcoming elections

“In April, we will win,” said Avi Gabbay, leader of the largest opposition party Zionist Union. “In April, we will bring change to Israel.”

December 24, 2018

British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, May 12, 2017. Photo by Chatham House, London/Wikimedia Commons.

Israel’s Labor Party cuts ties with U.K. Labour head over anti-Semitic incidents

Israeli Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay wrote a letter to Corbyn to inform him of the decision, emphasizing that the suspension only applies to him and not the U.K. Labour Party as a whole.

April 10, 2018