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Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid leaves his home for a pre-elections workout on Tuesday, Jan. 22 (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)
January 26, 2013, 5:15 am
Rising political star better be ready to work up a sweat
If Yair Lapid wants to avoid the pitfalls of his centrist predecessors, he’ll have to produce concrete results at the Knesset
By Daniel Estrin
Meretz supporters wear masks depicting Shelly Yachimovich, Tzipi Livni and Yair Lapid, protesting their alleged willingness to join a Netanyahu government, December 17, 2012. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
May 4, 2012, 9:45 am
Back to two-party politics?
Unless a certain charismatic TV anchor defies precedent, the elections of 2012 – which nobody seems to want, but which are happening anyway – may mark a return to the traditional Likud vs. Labor race, albeit with Netanyahu firmly in the driving seat
By David Horovitz
Mordechai Virshubski (photo credit: The Knesset)
May 1, 2012, 7:11 pm
Former MK Mordechai Virshubski dies at 82
Shinui founder served as deputy Knesset Speaker
By Asher Zeiger
File: Former national infrastructures and energy minister Joseph Paritzky in 2004. (Flash90)
April 27, 2012, 7:17 am
I told you so, says ex-energy minister about Egypt gas cut
Joseph Paritzky also blames ‘too much red tape’ for the delayed production from Israel’s own offshore gas fields
By Raphael Ahren
Yair Lapid speaking at the MIT Enterprise Forum, February 21, 2012. (photo credit: Bar Haim, Courtesy MIT Enterprise Forum)
February 22, 2012, 10:23 pm
Yair Lapid stumping for spot as education minister
The former Channel 2 television host presented himself as a candidate for the Knesset and the leader of Israel’s ‘sane center’
By David Shamah
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