The director general of the Zionist Union party, Eran Hermoni, announced the final list of candidates for the party's leader and candidate for premier, which has been presented to the election committee headed by former justice Yaakov Shimoni.
Nine candidates are running for party leader: Avi Gabai, Avner Ben-Zaken, Erel Margalit, Dina Dayan, Hod Kerovi, Yitzhak Herzog, Omer Bar-Lev, Amir Peretz and Amiram Levin. The primaries are due to take place on 4 July 2017