Yair Lapid
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Yair Lapid is an Israeli politician of the centrist Yesh Atid party, and a former journalist. He has been the Leader of the Opposition since January 2023, having previously served in that role from 2020 to 2021. He served as the 14th Prime Minister of Israel from 1 July to 29 December 2022. He previously served as the Alternate Prime Minister of Israel and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2021 to 2022. He served as Minister of Finance from 2013 to 2014. Lapid is the chairman of Yesh Atid.
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
Yesh Atid
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Yesh Atid is a centrist, liberal Zionist political party in Israel. It was founded in 2012 by former TV journalist Yair Lapid, the son of the former Shinui party politician and Israeli Justice Minister Tommy Lapid.
In January 2012, TV anchor Yair Lapid announced that he was leaving journalism for politics
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