HaAvoda

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Logo of HaAvoda (Israeli Labor Party)

HaAvoda, Hebrew: העבודה , meaning The Labor, (full name: Mifleget HaAvoda HaYisrelit, Hebrew: מפלגת העבודה הישראלית , meaning Israeli Labor Party, often called like that or just Labor Party) is an Israeli political party.

Its ideology is social democratic, and Zionist.

Political leader is Merav Michaeli (was Amir Peretz).

HaAvoda was founded in 1968 as a result of a merger of three leftist parties: Mapai, Ahdut HaAvoda, and Rafi.

Number of seats in the 24th Knesset: 7 (+4).
HaAvoda was cooperating with HaTnu'a ("The Movement") and HaTnu'a HaYeruqa ("The Green Movement") as HaMahaneh HaTziyoni (The Zionist Union). Together they had 24 seats in the 20th Knesset (2015-2019).

Participating in the Netanyahu-Gantz Government and the Bennett-Lapid Government.

HaAvoda Media

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  Original logo of the party from the 1980s

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  Party logo adopted in 1992, which was used until 2016

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  Logo of the Labor-Meimad List during the 2003 election

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  Seats held by the Labor party since its founding.

• Leaning version of the later party logo, adopted in 2016

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  Israeli Labor Party ballot slip – "Emet" which translates to "Truth" in Hebrew

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  Portrait of prime minister Levy Eshkol. August 1963. D699-070

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  Golda Meir, Israeli PM.

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  Flickr - Israel Defense Forces - Life of Lt. Gen. Yitzhak Rabin, 7th IDF Chief of Staff in photos (11)

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  Op de vliegbasis Valkenburg arriveerde S. Peres* * 19 januari 1986

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  אבי גבאי, שר הגנת הסביבה לשעבר ומועמד לראשות מפלגת העבודה, באסיפת בחירות

Other websites

• Official website