GOVERNMENT

Avi Gabbay

Leader of Israel's Labor Party

Avraham "Avi" Gabbay is the leader of Israel's opposition Labor Party. Previously the CEO of Israeli telecommunications giant Bezeq and a former Minister of Environmental Protection, Gabbay – the Jerusalem-born son of Moroccan immigrants – won Labor's leadership contest in 2017, vowing to move the party closer to the center. "I want to run the country in favor of the people and restore the trust of young people in the country," Gabbay told The Algemeiner during a wide-ranging interview last December. He also urged American Jews to ensure that US support for Israel remains a bipartisan concern. "At the end, we should always be bipartisan," Gabbay remarked. "This is one of the goals of our relations with America." (Photo: Yonatan Sindel / Flash90.)