CIAO DATE: 05/06

Campaign Season Begins in Israel (Part II): Labor's New Leader, Amir Peretz

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

By David Makovsky

Peace Watch #527
November 21, 2005

Abstract

Amir Peretz's decision to pull the Labor Party he leads out of its national unity government with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon set Israel's new political calendar and precipitated Sharon's decision to bolt the Likud Party and consent to elections in March 2006. Peretz is a veteran labor union leader who won the leadership of the Labor Party on November 10, defeating Shimon Peres, a dominant force in the party since 1974.

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