Yesh Atid to hold first-ever leadership primary in December

2 October 2023, 5:00 pm

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Head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 17, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Yesh Atid announces that elections for party leadership will be held in December for the first time in the centrist faction’s history.

The party intended to hold elections last year, but they were canceled when Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid’s leader since its founding in 2012, ended up being the only candidate running.

This time around, the former prime minister is expected to face off against Yesh Atid MK Ram Ben Barak, who has said on multiple occasions since last year’s election that he intends to challenge Lapid’s chairmanship if primaries are held.

Ben Barak served in the previous Knesset as chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Prior to entering politics in 2019, he was deputy head of the Mossad.