17.07.2019 - 21:11 [ Haaretz ]

One of Israel‘s Most Effective Politicians Just Quit, Proving Labor‘s at the End of the Road

The fact that Shelly Yacimovich, a leader and symbol of Labor for the last decade and a half, has decided to take a break from politics is another sign of the desperate condition of the party as another election approaches. “I can’t do it anymore,” she wrote, paraphrasing Menachem Begin. But it isn’t just her. The Labor Party itself can’t do it any more, not on its own.