Israel’s Labor party elected political newcomer Avi Gabbay as its leader Monday hoping to inject new blood into the movement that steered the country in the decades after independence but has been shut out of power for 16 years. But it has not governed since then Prime Minister Ehud Barak was defeated in 2001 following a failed attempt to reach peace with the Palestinians. The day of returning to our values.”He said his campaign to oppose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and “replace the government in Israel” starts Tuesday. Gabbay, 50, won by a small margin in a runoff vote against Amir Peretz, a former party leader and defense minister. Barak, the last Labor prime minister, tweeted “Revolution!” after Gabbay’s win.

Source: Egypt Independent July 11, 2017 09:11 UTC