Yair Lapid: ‘Tears fill my eyes; finally, air fills our lungs. Our children are coming home’

By Ariela Karmel

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13 October 2025, 1:06 pm

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Ariela Karmel is a political correspondent at The Times of Israel. She previously reported for Calcalist and Haaretz. She holds an MA in Middle Eastern and African History from Tel Aviv University and a BA in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv on July 28, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Opposition leader and Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid writes with emotion about his relief at seeing the return of the Israeli hostages today under the US-brokered ceasefire deal.

“Tears fill my eyes; finally, air fills our lungs. Our children are coming home,” he writes in a post on X.

Lapid adds in a separate post that he sends “strength to the bereaved families, to the IDF wounded, to those who paid the highest price of all.”