Israeli–Palestinian conflict In his political plan, published during the 2017 Labor leadership primaries, Gabbay expressed support for a
two-state solution, with the
Palestinian state being
demilitarized and the
settlement blocs and
Jordan Valley remaining under Israeli control. The Arab neighborhoods in
East Jerusalem would become
Area B. Later, he clarified that he was committed to the two-state solution and the distinction between settlement blocs and isolated settlements, in which construction must be stopped, but that there is no need to draw the borders of future negotiations and its recipe at this stage, including an immediate evacuation of all settlements and an undertaking to evacuate as a starting point for talks, and that any solution that will lead to an agreement should be examined. Following the President
Donald Trump's declaration of recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Gabbay was recorded in an interview saying that "undivided Jerusalem" is more important than a political settlement with the Palestinians. However, about six months earlier he explained that "undivided Jerusalem" did not include the Arab neighborhoods on the suburbs of Jerusalem. In January 2018, he declared that if the negotiations with the Palestinians will fail, a unilateral disengagement should be carried out, and that such a plan does not necessarily require the evacuation of settlements.
Economy According to the social-economic plan he published during the 2017 Labor leadership primaries, Gabbay supports an increase in expenditure on social benefits and services along with
public sector efficiency measures. He supports the reduction of inequality between central Israel and the periphery, and between
Jews and
Arabs in the
education system. He opposes teachers in the public school system being employed by third-party
labor contractors. According to the plan, he supports the
public health system and a complete separation with private healthcare, instead favoring expanding public health spending to the
OECD average. According to Gabbay,
public transport can be a social tool that reduces inequality and contributes to social mobility, and he supports additional investment of NIS 100 billion in public transport over a decade, and supports public transportation over private in infrastructure and accessibility. Gabbay supports the expansion of the social networks protecting all employees, and is in favor of linking wages to the
Consumer Price Index. He also favors linking wages of soldiers serving in combat units to the
minimum wage. According to his plan, an equitable
taxation system must be created in order to deal with the trends of inequality and deep gaps in Israeli society; in order to reduce the
cost of living in Israel, he proposed that there should be an increase in market competition, a reduction in
bureaucracy and competition among
kosher agencies should be created. In order to cope with the increase in housing prices in Israel, Gabbay proposes building 300,000 housing units within five years, adopting models of
affordable housing and changing the planning process in order to shorten the time of construction of apartments.
Religion and state Gabbay stated support for public transportation on
Shabbat, as well as allowing supermarkets and hang-out places to remain open on Shabbat,
Reform conversions,
Civil marriage, the
Western Wall compromise, and against the "Hadata" (הדתה, "religionization") of schools by the activities of the various associations (
Amutot) On the issue of enlisting Ultra orthodox
Haredim, on the other hand, he declared that this was unrealistic.
Education Gabbay called for reform in the education system in which
all streams of education for each sector will be united into one educational stream.
LGBT rights Gabbay expressed support for LGBT rights on several occasions, and introduced a legislative package of 24 laws on LGBT rights
Holocaust In February 2018 the
Polish Prime Minister
Mateusz Morawiecki stated that "there were Jewish perpetrators" of the
Holocaust, "not only German perpetrators." Gabbay condemned Morawiecki's words: "The blood of millions of Jews cries from the earth of Poland over the distortion of history and the escape from blame. Jews were murdered in the Holocaust and Poles took an active part in their murder. The government of Israel has to be a voice for the millions of murdered and strongly denounce the Polish prime minister's words." ==Personal life==