Young Meretz-Yachad

Young Meretz-Yachad
Chairman	Ido Porat
Mother party	Meretz-Yachad
International affiliation	International Union of Socialist Youth, IUSY
Website	myparty.org.il

Young Meretz-Yachad (Hebrew: צעירי מרצ-יחד‎, Tzeiri Meretz-Yakhad, also known as Young Meretz) is the youth wing of the Israeli political party Meretz-Yachad. All members of Meretz-Yachad aged 18-35 are automatically members of YMY. Additionally, YMY activates student groups in university and college campuses throughout Israel, where the activists are not necessarily registered members of the mother party. YMY is subject to the guidelines and statutes of the mother party, but also enjoy a substantial extent of autonomy. For example, it is not bound by coalition agreements.

The issues YMY is committed to include reaching a peaceful solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict based on a Two-state solution through negotiation such as The Geneva Initiative, social justice, human rights, gender equality, minority rights, separation of religion and state, elimination of corruption, environmental justice and viable development.

The current chairman of YMY is Ido Porat, the vice chairperson is Maya Crabtree and the President of the YMY committee is Hagit Ofran.

YMY is a member organization of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY).