Yair Lapid – Co-Founded Center Right Yesh Atid (“There Is a Future”) Party
Updated 2024-07-30
2022-06-23 Quick Facts: Yair Lapid Born in 1963, Lapid is a former journalist and TV host who entered politics in 2012 with the founding of the center right Yesh Atid (“There Is a Future”) party, which he leads. His father, who was also a prominent journalist and politician, was from what is Serbia today, immigrating to the newly established state of Israel in 1948. Lapid’s mother was a well-known writer whose father immigrated to Palestine from Romania before Israel’s establishment.
Lapid and Yesh Atid were a key part of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government from 2013-2014, when Lapid served as finance minister. In December 2014, Netanyahu fired Lapid from his ministerial post as their coalition fell apart. https://imeu.org/article/quick-facts-yair-lapid
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