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The Democrats

الديمقراطيون הדמוקרטים

Social-democratic party formed in 2024 from the merger of the Israeli Labor Party and Meretz.

Family
leftist socdem
Standing
Opposition (major)
Type
Joint list
Review
Verified
Model it
election machine
Founded
2024
Current leader
Yair Golan
Founders
merger of Labor and Meretz (2024)

Member parties

Formed in July 2024 by the merger of the Israeli Labor Party and Meretz; led by Yair Golan. The sitting Knesset faction is the four former-Labor MKs; Meretz brought no seats.

Position

Joint lists don't carry their own compass position — averaging ideologically distinct members would mislead. See the member parties above for their individual positions.

Members & affiliated figures

Politicians currently identified with this party — leaders, ministers, MPs, and other active figures. All affiliated politicians →

Recent events

Political events involving this party — formations, mergers, leadership changes, designation shifts. All events at /pulse →

  • Confirmed Party formed July 2024

    The Democrats formed from Labor–Meretz merger

    Israeli Labor Party and Meretz formally merged in July 2024 to form The Democrats, with Yair Golan elected leader. The merger consolidated the Zionist left into a single bloc after both parties struggled in recent elections.

Source documents

Texts the scoring pipeline reads — manifestos, speeches, platforms. Each document's verbatim content backs the position score above; the model cites specific phrases from these texts when scoring. All documents →

Sources

Per-field citations for the verified claims above. Other fields (notably the compass scores) remain hand-coded priors and are marked unverified until they pass the methodology pipeline — see methodology.

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). The Democrats [Party profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/the-democrats
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "The Democrats." Party profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/the-democrats.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-the-democrats,
  title     = {{The Democrats}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Party profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/the-democrats},
  urldate   = {2026-08-06},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-08-06},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.