Kadima Party officials convened on Monday to map out the party’s election strategy pertaining to reserved slots on the party’s lineup.

Positions 10, 20,29 and 30 are being reserved for immigrants, three slots allocated for women and slot 21 for a non-Jew. Members of the young party branch are questioning why no slot is being guaranteed for a representative, as is the case in Likud.

Perhaps even more dramatic was the response of Shai Hermesh, the representative of the moshavim and kibbutzim, who stormed out of the meeting when he realized he would not receive a guaranteed representation. He questioned why slots are guaranteed for immigrants and Arabs but not for those representing the pioneers who built the state. Efforts to persuade him to return were in vain as he left the meeting.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)