Ehud Barak vs Amir Peretz!
No, they aren't running against each other, at least not directly. Peretz succeeded Barak as party leader. It's hard to say who was the worst of the two as Defense Minister.
The results of the recent Labor primaries is that there will be another round. Barak vs Ayalon. Peretz has his supporters, but they're not enough for him to hold his position.
Outgoing Labor chairman Amir Peretz is telling his supporters not to vote for Barak.
Peretz formally endorses Ayalon in Labor runoff
Yes, even though Barak got the most votes in the first round, he may not win in the second.
Barak and Peretz are very different, totally and they represent two very unfriendly-with-each-other, incompatible, sectors of Israeli society. The party may be called the "Labor Party," but it's run by the elite of Israeli society, not the people who get their hands dirty to make a living.
The Israeli Labor Party does not like the "blue color worker;" though they like their votes. Barak is of that elite, while Peretz is the "real worker" from the poor struggling "development town," Sderot, which today suffers from Arab kassams. Those are the "new cities" in which North-African immigrants were housed in the early days of the state. The locations were inconvenient, employment limited and education... let's just say that the "best" teachers didn't live there.
Prejudice and resentment are alive and well in the Labor Party.
I contrast this to yishuvim like Shiloh, where there is integration and intermarriage between the Jewish ethnic groups. Of course the Labor Party, being left-wing, calls themselves "liberal" and us "conservative." They're much too busy with their labels and hatred.
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