Knesset
The Knesset ( , ) is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of Israel.
The Knesset passes all laws, elects the President of Israel, president and Prime Minister of Israel, prime minister, approves the Cabinet of Israel, cabinet, and supe ...
Zehava Galon
Zehava Galon (; born 4 January 1956), is an Israeli politician, the president of the research institute ZULAT for Equality and Human Rights and former leader of Meretz.
Galon served as a member of the Knesset from 1999 to 2017 and ran as the ...
, member of the Knesset since 1999
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Haim Oron
Haim "Jumes" Oron (; born 26 March 1940) is an Israeli politician and former Minister of Agriculture. He was head of the political party Meretz, for whom he served as a member of the Knesset.
Biography
Oron was born in Givatayim and grew up ...
, member of the Knesset (1988–2000 and again since 2003) and former minister of agriculture (1999–2000)
Withdrew
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Yossi Beilin
Joseph "Yossi" Beilin (; born 12 June 1948) is an Israeli politician who has served in multiple ministerial and leadership positions in the Israeli government. Much of his political career was in the Labour Party. He also served as chairman of t ...
, incumbent party leader
Campaign
After Oron declared that he would run for party leader, incumbent party leader
Yossi Beilin
Joseph "Yossi" Beilin (; born 12 June 1948) is an Israeli politician who has served in multiple ministerial and leadership positions in the Israeli government. Much of his political career was in the Labour Party. He also served as chairman of t ...
withdrew from the election.
Election system and conduct
The election was open to all members of the party. If no candidate had secured an outright
majority
A majority is more than half of a total; however, the term is commonly used with other meanings, as explained in the "#Related terms, Related terms" section below.
It is a subset of a Set (mathematics), set consisting of more than half of the se ...
of the vote in the initial round, a
runoff election
The two-round system (TRS or 2RS), sometimes called ballotage, top-two runoff, or two-round plurality, is a single-winner electoral system which aims to elect a member who has support of the majority of voters. The two-round system involves one ...
would have been held.
On the day of the election, Cohen filed a complaint with the party's election committee alleging irregularities at some polling stations. Galon demanded that three polling stations located in
Deir al-Asad
Deir al-Asad (; ; "The Lion's Monastery") is an Arab village in the Galilee region of Israel, near Karmiel.
Results
Around 75% of party members participated in the election. Oron won the outright majority required to forgo a runoff election, winning the party's leadership outright in the initial round of voting.
Meretz
Meretz (, ; ) was a left-wing political party in Israel. The party was formed in 1992 by the merger of Ratz, Mapam and Shinui, and was at its peak between 1992 and 1996 when it had 12 seats. It had no seats in the Knesset following its failure ...