Amir Peretz (born 9 March, 1952) is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset. He is a former Defense Minister of Israel and former leader of the Israeli Labour Party, having left those positions in June of 2007. Peretz is the former chairman of the Histadrut trade union federation and defeated Shimon Peres in the primary elections for the Labour leadership in November 9, 2005. He led the Labour Party to a second place showing in the 2006 Israeli elections.

Dr. Yossef ("Yossi") Beilin is a leftist Israeli politician, Knesset member, and a former deputy foreign minister and justice minister within the Israeli Labour Party. He is currently chairman of Meretz-Yachad. He is best known for his involvement with the Oslo accords, the Geneva Initiative and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in general.

Avraham Burg (nickname: Avrum, born January 19 1955) is an Israeli politician. Burg was born in Jerusalem and is the son of Yosef Shlomo Burg, a minister in several Israeli governments himself. He served in the Israel Defense Forces and graduated as a lieutenant in the paratroopers brigade. He then studied Social Sciences at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Burg was an activist in left wing organizations and the Peace Now movement.

Yigal Allon (born October 10, 1918, died February 29, 1980), commander of the Palmach, was an Israeli politician, serving as one of the leaders of Mapai and the Alignment, acting Prime Minister of Israel, member of Knesset and government minister from the tenth through the seventeenth Knessets. Alon was born in Kfar Tavor and studied at the Kadoori Agricultural High School. As a young man he joined the Jewish Settlement Police as a police officer.

Shulamit Aloni (born November 29 1928) is an Israeli politician and left-wing activist. She is a prominent member of the Israeli peace camp, founded the Ratz party and was leader of the Meretz party and served as Israel's minister of education from 1992 to 1993. Born Shulamit Adler in Tel Aviv, her mother was a seamstress and her father was a carpenter, both descended from Polish Jewish rabbinical families.

Eitan Cabel (born 23 August 1959) is an Israeli politician, Knesset Member and current General Secretary of the Israeli Labour Party. Appointed Minister without Portfolio responsible for the Israel Broadcasting Authority in Ehud Olmert's government on 4 May 2006, Cabel resigned from his post on 1 May 2007, the day after the Winograd Commission released its findings. In his resignation speech, he called for Olmert to step down, …

Yitzhak Navon (born April 9 1921) is an Israeli politician, diplomat and author. He was the fifth President of Israel.

Ephraim Katzir (born May 16 1916) is an Israeli biophysicist and Israeli Labour Party politician. He served as the President of Israel for a five-year term, from 1973 until 1978. Katzir was born in Kiev, Ukraine with the name Ephraim Katchalsky. He changed his last name to the Hebrew name Katzir in 1973, after being elected President by the Knesset. Katzir was at Harvard University when Golda Meir contacted him about being the President of Israel.

Salah Tarif (Arabic: صالح طريف, Hebrew: סאלח טריף, born February 9, 1954) is a Druze Israeli former Knesset member. A member of the Labour Party, he first joined the Knesset near the end of the 12th Knesset Assembly. He was elected to the 13th, 14th, and 15th Knessets, and served another partial term at the end of the 16th Knesset. He served as the Deputy Speaker and the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, …

Dan Margalit (born 1939) is an Israeli journalist and columnist. Margalit holds a Master's degree in Modern Jewish history and a Bachelor's degree in international relations. Margalit started writing for "Haaretz" in the 1960s. He became famous when in 1977, while serving as Washington correspondent of Haaretz, he revealed that Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin illegally had a United States bank account.

Shevah Weiss (Hebrew: שבח וייס, born 5 July 1935) is an Israeli political scientist and politician. Weiss was born on July 5, 1935 in Borysław, Poland (now in Ukraine). As a Holocaust survivor, he migrated to Israel in 1947. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1961 and did a PhD in 1969. In 1975 he became a professor at the University of Haifa. In 1981 he was elected for the first time to the Knesset as a member of the Labor Party.