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Shelly Yachimovich
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{{Infobox member of the Knesset
| image=Shelly Yachimovich.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|3|28|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Kfar Sava]], [[Israel]]
| Year of Aliyah =
| death_date =
| Knesset(s) = [[Israeli legislative election, 2006|17th]], [[Israeli legislative election, 2009|18th]]
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On March 3rd 2011 Yachimovich declared her candidacy and engaged in an energetic effort to sign up new members to the party. By the time the membership drive ended on June 6th, 2011, Yachimovich according to estimates, had signed up more than 17,300 new members. 
The first independent polls taken from among labor party members after end of the membership drive confirm that she is at this time the leading contender for the position of chairman of the Labor party.

On September 22, 2011, Yachimovich was elected leader of the Labor Party in a run-off against PeretzIn the primary elections for chairman held on September 12th Yachimovich came in first among the 4 remaining contenders and beat Amir Peretz by a slim margin, 32% to 31% with Itzhak Herzog garnering 25% and Amram Mitzna 12% of the votes, respectively. Since the Labor party constitution requires a minimum of 40% of the votes for a first round decision, a run-off was held on September 21st resulting in a 54% to 46% victory (a margin of slightly more than 3500 votes) against Peretz. In the early hours of Sept. 22nd Yachimovich was officially declared chairperson of the Labor Party at party headquarters, the second woman to hold that position.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{MKlink|id=782}}
{{Current MKs}}
{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->
| NAME              =　Yachimovich, Shelly
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
| SHORT DESCRIPTION =
| DATE OF BIRTH     =　28 March 1960
| PLACE OF BIRTH    =　[[Kfar Sava]], [[Israel]]
| DATE OF DEATH     =
| PLACE OF DEATH    =
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yachimovich, Shelly}}
[[Category:1960 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Israeli women in politics]]
[[Category:Israeli women writers]]
[[Category:Israeli Labor Party politicians]]
[[Category:Members of the Knesset]]
[[Category:Ben-Gurion University of the Negev alumni]]
[[Category:Israeli people of Polish origin]]
[[Category:Children of Holocaust survivors]]
[[Category:People from Kfar Saba]]

[[cs:Šeli Jachimovič]]
[[he:שלי יחימוביץ']]
[[pl:Shelli Yehimovich]]
[[fi:Shelly Yachimovich]]