Yair Lapid is a Tel Aviv-born center-left Israeli politician. He is the founder and chairman of the Yesh Atid political party.
Lapid served as the alternate Prime Minister to Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister in a 2021 coalition government. He had also previously served as Finance Minister in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government from 2013-2014.
Yair Lapid began his public career as a journalist and TV presenter, before branching out into politics in 2012 with the formation of Yesh Atid.
PM Netanyahu to Noa Argamani: "For one moment, we haven't given up on you. I don't know if you believed it, but we had full belief."
Establishing a home for disillusioned Likud and right-wing voters with Liberman, Sa'ar, and Bennett.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to meet with far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to discuss the deal.
Wildfires ignited by Hezbollah rockets from Lebanon ravaged northern Israel. Rescue teams battled flames amid evacuations. Dry weather intensified the crisis. Authorities struggled to contain fires.
Yair Lapid criticized Netanyahu's comments and called for Smotrich and Ben-Gvir to leave the government.
The coalition has come under fire after Eisenkot slammed Netanyahu's leadership in the war; Kariv called his continued leadership a danger to the country.
The first Lebanon war bears a tragic resemblance to events in Israel and Gaza today.
What is required from the government is to gain the public’s trust, something that the Gallant-Netanyahu duel this week neither promoted nor inspired.
Shortly after, Israeli figures took to X, responding to the minister's comments.
Ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich threatened to withdraw from the government if the PM agrees to a deal rather than a Rafah op. Minister Gantz suggested he could withdraw if the government chose Rafah.
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