Efrat Rayten

אפרת רייטן-מרום

Labor Party chairwoman; MK in The Democrats faction; member of Judicial Selection Committee

Haifa-born former actress and lawyer who chaired Labor's Knesset faction after 2022 and rose to lead the Labor Party in 2025 after Yair Golan took the helm of the merged Democrats.

Positions and record

Sits on Judicial Selection Committee; helped advance women and Israel's first Muslim Supreme Court justice
Publicly condemned Hamas's October 7 atrocities and rebuked an Algerian delegate who denied the sexual violence
Advocates for people with disabilities, the elderly and single parents
Engaged constructively in the 2023 judicial reform debate while pressing for broad national consensus
Backed Yair Golan in the 2024 Labor leadership race that produced The Democrats merger with Meretz
Previously chaired the Labor, Welfare and Health Committee

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Efrat Rayten, The State of Israel. https://thestateofisrael.com/mk/efrat-rayten