Who they are
Born in Tel Aviv in 1953, Goldschmidt is a lawyer who served three Knesset terms for Labor from 1992, chairing the House Committee, then Economics, then Finance, and heading the Labor faction. He resigned in February 2001 saying he had despaired of politics, and spent the next 25 years out of it: he presented a morning show on Channel 2, ran communications and regulation at the Israel Corporation, and kept practising law. He now lives in Sderot and appears as a commentator on Channel 14. He voted for Oslo and for the Gaza disengagement and has spent the years since 7 October saying, publicly and repeatedly, that he was wrong about both. He says the Labor party he sat for is dead.
Positions and record
Oslo and the disengagement: He voted for both and now calls them mistakes. The moment Israel left Gaza, he says, they started digging tunnels.
Sovereignty: He wants Israel sovereign over everything west of the Jordan and the Green Line erased. Hanita and Ofra, he says, are one and the same.
The Arabs of Judea and Samaria: Jordanian citizenship, Jordanian passports and seats in the parliament in Amman, all of it under Israeli sovereignty.
Labor: He says the party he sat for is dead, and that what carries the name today is not the same thing.
Where they stand
Holds the party line on every issue.