Lapid: ‘Go and vote for the future of our children’

1 November 2022, 8:41 am

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Prime Minister Yair Lapid casts his vote at a polling station in Israel's coastal city of Tel Aviv in the country's fifth election in four years on November 1, 2022 (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Prime Minister Yair Lapid votes at the polling station near his Tel Aviv home after walking there with his wife, Lihi.

“Go and vote today for the future of our children and the future of our country. Vote well and good luck to us all,” the premier says, evoking the name of his party Yesh Atid (“There is a future”).

Lapid started the day with a visit to the grave of his father, Tommy, a noted journalist, playwright and cabinet minister.

Prime Minister Yair Lapid visits the grave of his father, Tommy, November 1, 2022 (Elad Gutman/Yesh Atid)

Tommy Lapid was born in Serbia but the family was captured by the Nazis and later sent to the Budapest Ghetto. Tommy’s father was killed in a concentration camp, while Tommy and his mother were saved by Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who famously rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazis.