Tommy Lapid
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Joseph "Tommy" Lapid was a Yugoslav-born Israeli radio and television presenter, playwright, journalist, politician and government minister known for his sharp tongue and acerbic wit. Lapid headed the
Lapid reporting from the Eichmann trial in 1961
Tommy Lapid (far-left) at Yad Vashem during George W. Bush's visit, 2008
Street sign named after Yosef Lapid in Netanya
Yair Lapid
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Yair Lapid is an Israeli politician and former journalist who has been the Leader of the Opposition since January 2023, having previously served in that role from 2020 to 2021. He was prime minister o
Tommy Lapid
…ultra-Orthodox political parties and actively sought to exclude any religious observance from the legal structure of the Israeli state. He was the father of Yair Lapid, who served as the 14th Prime Minister of Israel in 2022. Lapid was born in Novi Sad, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (modern-day Serbia), to a family of Hungarian…
Official portrait, 2022
Lapid in the early 1980s while serving as a military correspondent for the IDF's weekly newspaper
Yair Lapid in Jacob Goldwasser's 1991 film Beyond the Sea
Yair Lapid giving a speech at Sapir Academic College in November 2015