In 1983, Labour Party candidate Chaim Herzog was elected president of Israel.

CNN: Sunday,

The chairwoman of the Labour party, Shelly Yacimovich, and the chairman of the Kadima party, Shaul Mofaz, were both quick to call on Israel's centrist parties to unite to challenge the new right-wing list.

BBC: Israel's Likud Party and Yisrael Beitenu to join forces

On the whole, America's Jewry has been a liberal body, aligning itself with Israel's Labour Party rather than the Likud Party of the present prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu.

ECONOMIST: America and Israel