Israel’s Labor Party loses Knesset stars
With Labor’s new chair Avi Gabbay controlling the party institutions, Knesset members Manuel Trajtenberg and Erel Margalit have decided to resign from their posts.
The back-to-back resignations of Knesset members Manuel Trajtenberg and Erel Margalit illustrate the changes underway in the Zionist Camp since Avi Gabbay was elected head of the Labor Party in July.
While each politician has a distinct personal agenda, there is a common theme connecting the two resignations. Both men entered politics after a series of high-level achievements in their previous careers. Trajtenberg was a respected professor of economics and sociology who became a symbol of the social protests of 2011. Margalit was a talented entrepreneur who founded a venture capital firm that made him very wealthy.
