Get email notification for articles from Uzi Baram Follow Jul. 14, 2021 1:57 AM The electoral upheaval of 1977 crashed on the heads of the leaders of the Labor Party like a collapsed tower. They didn’t know how to digest the “unfairness” with which the public had treated them. They, who saw themselves as born to rule, felt they had been robbed, and had difficulty internalizing the fact that this was not only an electoral defeat but a genuine upheaval – the system collapsed and was replaced. At the time I was elected to the Knesset for the first time – therefore I didn’t experienc...