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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 478

Yosef (Tommy) Lapid

Varda Spiegel
February 15, 2018, 3:17 pm
Varda Spiegel
You just don’t call Yair Lapid a ‘shtinker’
Bullying those who speak out against abuse and corruption is a poor defense of Netanyahu
Israeli politician Yair Lapid addresses the crowed during a “'Taking Back Zionism'” demonstration for Israel on August 28, 2016 at the Raoul Wallenberg Square in Stockholm. (AFP/Jonathan Nackstrand)
August 28, 2016, 11:35 pm
At Stockholm rally, Lapid accuses Swedish FM of anti-Semitism
An attack on Jews not based in fact has a name, Yesh Atid leader says, advising Wallstrom to look into true rights abuses in Mideast
By ToI Staff
Tommy Lapid reporting from Adolf Eichman's trial in Jerusalem 1961. (Government Press Office/Israel National Photo Collection)
April 6, 2016, 9:10 pm
Hungarian students stage Holocaust play for school competition
Dramitization by Christian teens portraying late Israeli politician and Budapest ghetto survivor Tommy Lapid wins state-sponsored contest
By JTA
Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid in Jerusalem on January 25, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 11, 2016, 11:54 pm
Lapid tightens grip on Yesh Atid, delays leadership race
Ex-finance minister said to have secretly changed party’s regulations, deferring ballot until after next national elections
By ToI Staff
Holocaust survivors pose for a photo after celebrating their belated bar mitzvah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 13, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 13, 2015, 8:23 pm
30 Holocaust survivors mark bar/bat mitzvahs in Jerusalem
70 years after WWII, celebration held at Western Wall; Yair Lapid recalls father’s bar mitzvah in Budapest ghetto
By ToI Staff and Jonathan Beck
Mark Mellman. (Screen capture/YouTube)
February 26, 2013, 6:11 pm
The kingmaker’s kingmaker
How did Yesh Atid become the biggest success of the elections? A dedicated candidate, a resonant message, and relentless hard work, says its American-Jewish adviser, Mark Mellman
By Raphael Ahren
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
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid speaks to reporters after results revealed him to be the big winner of the elections on Tuesday, Jan. 22 (Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)
January 24, 2013, 1:41 pm
The numbers game
The press puts Lapid in the driver’s seat even before final election results are out
By Ron Friedman
Evan Fallenberg, left, and Yair Lapid (photo credit: Micha Fallenberg)
January 23, 2013, 6:56 pm
Being Yair Lapid (in English)
Some reflections on working with, and serving as the English voice for, Israel’s new kingmaker
By Evan Fallenberg
Happy chaos: Supporters of the Jewish Home party respond to the preliminary results of the elections in Tel Aviv on January 22, 2013 (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash 90)
January 23, 2013, 2:49 pm
Israel’s elections: What just happened?
Israel voted for change, and moved a little from right to center; Lapid is the big success but Netanyahu is still a winner, albeit battered and constrained
By David Horovitz
Yesh Atid chair Yair Lapid at his party's convention, December 2012 (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)
December 9, 2012, 11:53 pm
Lapid says he’ll go to court to stop ultra-Orthodox draft exemptions
Yesh Atid head calls move to allow 1,300 Haredi men to serve national service a ‘scandal’
By Philip Podolsky and Asher Zeiger
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
Yair Lapid, founder of the Yesh Atid party (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 29, 2012, 2:39 pm
Journalist Lapid formally launches political bid, pledging support for middle class
Late minister’s son files paperwork for new Yesh Atid party; poll shows it heading for 12 seats
By Stuart Winer
Ariel Beery
February 28, 2012, 5:30 pm
Ariel Beery
Carrying the torch of change
If he implements a regional politics that favors taxpayers, Yair Lapid may be the one who finally puts the ultra-Orhtodox in their place
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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