The bill proposing a return to the old system is sponsored both by Labour's Yossi Beilin and Likud's Uzi Landau.

ECONOMIST: Israel

In so doing, it brought in Ehud Barak and Yossi Beilin, the withdrawal from Lebanon and the Camp David summit.

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Others drifted to Meretz over the years, including that party's three most recent leaders: Shulamit Aloni, Yossi Sarid and Yossi Beilin.

ECONOMIST: The party of the old establishment is dying under Ehud Barak