Tzipi Livni
Still adrift after being kicked out of the Zionist Union, Hatnua leader Tzipi Livni announces her departure from politics less than a week before the deadline to submit final Knesset lists • Livni: “I am leaving politics, but not the hope for peace.”
Of the 22 parties currently running, 14 parties are currently all polling within one or two seats above or below the electoral threshold, many within a margin of error. Party leaders will be forced to make compromises and political alliances, or risk not making it through to the parliament.
Ahead of the party’s Feb. 11 primaries, Knesset member Eitan Cabel says, “We must not let the Labor party die.”
The recent shifts are likely only the first in Israel’s rapid election cycle that culminates at the national polls on April 9.
In the latest political shift ahead of the 2019 Israel elections, Zionist Union chairman Avi Gabbay issued an unexpected announcement that he would dissolve his partnership with Hatnua chair Tzipi Livni.
