"Whenever I bypass something, I don’t go back on my tracks." It's one of Avi Gabbay's favorite sayings. The new Labor Party chairman uses it frequently to describe how determined and focused he is.

On Aug. 20, Gabby exhibited that determination when he revealed that he planned to introduce a series of aggressive changes to the party's constitution, and that he planned to bring them before the party's institutions as early as the beginning of September. Given the uproar this caused in the party, Gabbay is expected to have a tough fight ahead of him.

Not a single Knesset member responded officially to Gabbay's radical moves, even though the changes will affect each of them directly. Nevertheless, the dam will burst sooner rather than later, and their silence will turn into open warfare. Off the record, several Knesset members already sound disturbed by the new chairman. After all, he only joined the party a year ago, but he is already lording over them, and arrogantly at that. He is trying to get rid of everything that happened before him, or in other terms, not taking them into consideration.

Meanwhile, Gabbay, who was elected to his current position just six weeks ago, on July 10, is benefiting from the fact that not a single Knesset member wants to be the first person to come out against the new chairman. After all, he was able to restore the party's relevance, and his standing in the polls is good.