Journalist and author Haim Har Zahav announced today (Tuesday) that he will run in the Labor Party’s primaries for a place on the party’s list for the Knesset.
Har-Zahav, 43, has been a member of the Labor Party for many years, a member of the party conference and the Histadrut faction in the Histadrut, and is publicly identified with social democratic positions and the struggle for equality and distributive justice. He is one of the founding initiators and founders of the Israel Journalists’ Organization, which, following its establishment, for the first time began to incorporate workers in the cellular, insurance and high-tech industries. As part of the organization, he conducted workers’ struggles against media closures and layoffs.
In the past year, after publishing the bestseller “Lebanon: The Lost War” that sparked the public debate about the war in the security zone in southern Lebanon, has led the fighters’ struggle to recognize this war as one of Israel’s systems. Following the struggle, the government decided to recognize the war, and distribute a battle signal to its participants and the bereaved families of the hundreds killed.
In addition, Har-Zahav previously served as the Knesset correspondent for News 10 and the Knesset channel, and edited Kol Yisrael News and the magazine “The Hottest Place in Hell.” In addition to his journalistic work, Har-Zahav serves as a press lecturer at Sapir Academic College.
Har-Zahav said that “all my life as a journalist I have worked to identify and mark malfunctions and injustice. Now I will come to a place where I can really influence, and correct the injustices in the State of Israel. I am not ashamed to say that my goal is for Israel Back to its citizens – a country that does not treat them as customers, but as shareholders whose role is to serve. “
List of candidates registered so far for the primaries of the “Labor” list for the Knesset: Shalom Daskel, Yaron Gadot, Yitzhak Bar-Lev, Nir Yitzhak Britman, Yitzhak Time,
Nava Fruchter Katz, Farhan Abu Riash, Amir Hanifas, Vladimir Sverdlov, Ivy Avraham Binyamin, Yoav Agami, Ofer Segman, Ibrahim Al-Zara’a, Itamar Ilan Wagner, Ephraim Bulmash, Yonatan Tzadik, Gavri Bargil and Gil Beilin.