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LAPID Yair

LAPID
Yair

Israeli journalist

  • Date of Birth: 5 November 1963
  • Age: 62 years old
  • In the rating: #2 Spokesperson

Biography

Yair Lapid is an Israeli statesman, journalist, actor, novelist and poet. He served as Prime Minister of Israel from July 1 to December 29, 2022.

The son of centrist politician Tomy Lapid, he entered politics himself in 2012 after a career in the media. He founded the secular centrist Yesh Atid movement, which came second in the 2013 parliamentary elections, allowing him to join the Netanyahu III government as finance minister.

In 2014, he left the government and in the following years became one of the main opponents of Benjamin Netanyahu. He lost in the three legislative elections of 2019-2020 behind Benny Gantz in the center-right Blue and White coalition, which finally joined a government of national unity led by Netanyahu, much to the chagrin of Lapid, who dissociated himself from it.

After Netanyahu again failed to form a government after the 2021 parliamentary elections, President Reuven Rivlin tasked Yair Lapid, who came second, with finding a majority. His negotiations resulted in a motley eight-party government led first by Naftali Bennett. Lapid served as alternate prime minister and foreign minister there and became prime minister on July 1, 2022, following Bennett's resignation. He left office on 29 December, following his defeat in the 2022 snap elections.

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Date of Birth 5 November 1963
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Mariska Hargitay Honors Gloria Steinem in Emotional Emmys Speech for ‘My Mom Jayne’

HARGITAY Mariska
HARGITAY Mariska

I just want that invitation to go out, especially to women

Primetime Director Responds to Chris Hansen’s Criticism of Robert Pattinson Film

OPPENHEIM Lance
OPPENHEIM Lance

I’m excited for him to ‘have a seat’ and watch the movie in a movie theater, if that’s where he chooses to watch it.

Taylor Frankie Paul Confirms She Accepted ‘Bachelorette’ Proposal Before Reuniting With Dakota

PAUL Frankie Taylor
PAUL Frankie Taylor

[I said,] ‘Yes.’ Yes, I did [get engaged]

Sandra Bullock Recalls ‘Practical Magic’ Box Office Bomb: ‘It Got Quiet’

BULLOCK Sandra
BULLOCK Sandra

We thought, ‘This is going to be such an amazing film. People are going to love it.’ And then it got quiet. It got quiet

Genetic Genealogy Without Illusions: What DNA Tests Actually Show

KAZANKOV Dmitry Alexandrovich
KAZANKOV Dmitry Alexandrovich

It works excellently in tandem with documentary genealogy: confirming or refuting hypotheses, finding unknown relatives, and breaking through brick walls. But expecting the test to build a pedigree back to the 16th century on its own is an illusion. Without archives, parish registers, and competent analysis of matches, the test remains just a set of percentages. We always advise users to first establish a documentary foundation and only then verify it with DNA data

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Beard Day 7 September

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