Avi Gabbay, the new head of the Labor party as of yesterday’s primary, tells activists and reporters at the party’s headquarters in Tel Aviv that “the campaign to replace Netanyahu begins today.”

“The State of Israel is headed to elections, we just don’t know the date,” he says.

He adds that his victory has brought “electricity” to the party. “The party’s switchboard crashed. The membership website crashed. People want to join, to strengthen us, to support change.”

The party “needs at least 100,000 members by the next election,” he adds, nearly twice its current number of over 52,000.