Merav Michaeli (then leader of Israel's Labor Party; feminist, Zionist-left) — interview with The Forward during a 2023 US visit (8 Jun 2023): calls reviving liberal Zionism "the future of Israel," likens Netanyahu's politics to Trumpism, and vows to defend Israeli democracy against the judicial overhaul.

The future of Israel depends on its going back to the Zionist vision,” she said during a recent visit to the U.S. “And our side of the political map must rebuild its political power, build the infrastructure that it doesn’t have today to reach people’s hearts and minds.

I think post 2016, Americans should realize what we are up against,” she said, referencing the election of Donald Trump. “There are many similarities between what Netanyahu does and what Trumpism does. It’s the same values that are at stake.

It all depends on the content of the compromise,” she said when asked if she’d support a watered-down version of the proposal. “If it’s something that we think is good for the state of Israel and for its democracy, then we’ll always support it. But if it’s something that we think risks our democracy, we will vote against it.

[Source is in English (The Forward); editorial context, not a translation.] Declared positions of Merav Michaeli — leader of the Israeli Labor Party from 2021 to 2024 (the third woman to head Israel's founding party since Golda Meir), a former journalist and prominent feminist, and Minister of Transport in the 2021–2022 "change government." From her interview with The Forward during a spring-2023 visit to the United States, published 8 June 2023. Representing the Zionist LEFT — a camp under-represented elsewhere in the dataset relative to the Israeli right — she argues Israel's future depends on returning to "the Zionist vision" and rebuilding the liberal-Zionist left's political infrastructure; explicitly likens Benjamin Netanyahu's politics to American "Trumpism" ("the same values that are at stake"); elsewhere in the same interview positions Labor as "the only Zionist democratic party in the parliament"; and frames the 2023 judicial-overhaul fight as a defense of Israeli democracy (she would back a compromise only if it does not "risk our democracy"). Her broader platform — social democracy, feminism / gender equality, religious pluralism, and a two-state solution — is well established. [Axes: democracy (defense of judicial independence / liberal democracy), religion-state (secularism / religious pluralism), palestinian-question (two-state), economic (social democracy). A Zionist-left, feminist counterweight to the Israeli-right figures documented elsewhere.]