ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses primarily on the selection of the Labor Party candidates for the Twelfth Knesset (elected in 1988) as a case study of the opening up of the previously oligarchic process of leadership selection. There will be a briefer discussion of a more recent and far-reaching reform-the adoption of a partywide primary system to select the candidates to the Thirteenth Knesset, including the top leader and candidate for the premiership. The analysis of the changes in the nominations process is the key to evaluating the extent to which Labor is undergoing internal democratization.
