The Meretz Party will hold primaries for party leadership this morning (Tuesday): Former party chairwoman Zehava Galon arrived last night to be a guest at the Israel Hayom studio and spoke with Yehuda Schlesinger and Amir Ettinger.
Galon attacked her opponent's style in the fight for the leadership of Meretz: "Yair Golan is delegitimizing me, 'Zehava Galon, her entry is not healthy.' What do you mean, my entry into the political system is not healthy? Who speaks in these terms?".
According to her, he personally delegitimized her when he called her a woman of the past: "When he came to Meretz with Ehud Barak, I don't remember him saying that he was a man of the past. I think that's a misogynistic statement, not to mention ageist.".
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Galon explained her words, according to which Golan is bringing Ben Gvir's methods to Meretz - and responded to Golan's claims that she does not define Meretz as a Zionist party. "Do I have to put myself through loyalty tests that Yair Golan puts me through? These loyalty tests are Ben Gvir's, he does loyalty tests for leftists and Arabs?
""I declare myself from the day I was given the right to vote, I am a Zionist, all the leaders of Meretz in the past were Zionists. And I say that I see myself in an Israeli left-wing party, which has Jews and Arabs in it. I don't expect Issawi Frij to define himself as a Zionist, so Yair Golan dares to say about me that I am not a Zionist?".
Gal-On refused to say which minister she would like to be if Meretz were a member of the government, but emphasized that the day after the primaries she would call Golan to cooperate for Meretz's success and that he has a place on the list.
