Some 44,000 of the 66,000 registered party members came to cast their ballot, sixty-two percent of the party's members voted in the Druze community and 61 percent in the Arab community.

Around Yachimovich 40 campaign workers are sitting around next to red maps and black phones, new ones by the look of the empty boxes outside. I take a seat and get a peek at their list of talking points, which say nothing about democratic socialism.

Party officials dismissed complaints of disorder, saying the ballot box was taken out to enable a disabled voter to cast his ballot, as the polling station was inaccessible to disabled persons.

Ehud Barak's resignation caught Peretz, Cabel, Majadele and Ben-Simon by surprise after they had tried to split off from Labor for months.

One million women and men in Israel are earning the minimum wage. Most of them are women, Arabs, Ethiopian immigrants and from other weakened population sectors.