Labor chairman Ehud Barak will meet one-on-one with his opponents in the Labor faction on Wednesday to demand that they respect the decision by the party's convention on Tuesday night to join Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu's coalition.
Barak will try to build on the momentum of his significant victory at the stormy convention. Out of the convention delegates who cast ballots, 680 voted for Barak's proposal and 507 against it.
Netanyahu immediately called Barak to congratulate him and thank him for joining the next government. With Labor in hand, Netanyahu now wants to complete the process of forming a coalition by Monday.
To that end, the Likud's negotiating team will meet on Wednesday with representatives of Habayit Hayehudi and United Torah Judaism.
