Yair Lapid

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An interim score: A minus for Israel’s new government on leadership and change

Jun 29, 2021 @ 16:54Jul 16, 2021 @ 15:58 Diane Shalem 1942 Views Abraham Accords, Antony Blinke, Binyamin Netanyhu, Israel-US relations, Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid

FM Yair Lapid, on Tuesday, June 29, became the first Israeli minister to visit the UAE. He was set to

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Israel’s top soldier must overcome Biden’s downgrade of the Iranian peril for fast action against a nuclear-armed Iran

Jun 19, 2021 @ 14:17Jun 30, 2021 @ 17:24 Diane Shalem 4022 Views Biden adminisration, Iran nuclear, Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, tsunami, Yair Lapid

IDF Chief Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi sets out for Washington on Saturday night, June 19 with the tall order of

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Israel’s new government, a work of art, bears the seeds of its destruction

Jun 13, 2021 @ 9:19Jun 21, 2021 @ 11:50 Diane Shalem 2666 Views Avigdor Lieberman, New Israeli government, Nftali Bennett, Yair Lapid

The Bennett-Lapid eight-party coalition that takes office as Israel’s next government on Sunday afternoon, June 13, was glued together through

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Lapid and Bennett grapple to hold their coalition majority together from slipping

Jun 2, 2021 @ 23:54Jun 12, 2021 @ 12:14 Diane Shalem 2252 Views Ayelet Shaked, Gideon Saar, government of change, Mansour Abbas, Merav Michaeli, Yair Lapid

After presenting his “government for change” to the president on Wednesday night, based on eight parties with a majority total

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Exclusive: Bennett will lead first Lapid government. The duo will move fast to strip Netanyahu of immunity

May 5, 2021 @ 20:49May 11, 2021 @ 18:16 Diane Shalem 1965 Views Binyamin Netanyahu, Naftali Bennett, prime ministerial mandate, Reuven Rivlin, Yair Lapid

President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday, May 5, assigned the opposition leader, Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid, the task of forming a

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President to pick next candidate for premier after Netanyahu returns mandate

May 5, 2021 @ 3:38May 11, 2021 @ 18:17 Diane Shalem 1551 Views Binyamin Netanyahu, Naftali Bennett, President Reuven Rivlin, Yair Lapid

Binyamin Netanyahu informed the president at midnight Tuesday, May 4, that he had failed to set up a government in

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Israel’s politicians seek panaceas while shuffling towards the unknown

Apr 26, 2021 @ 19:13May 3, 2021 @ 14:01 Diane Shalem 1601 Views Binyamin Netanyahu, colition negotiations, Nphtali Bennett, security cabinet, Yair Lapid

Hopeless remedies zoom over Israel’s parties as they struggle frantically to conjure up a working government out of a deadlocked

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Two mini-parties may seal fate of Netanyahu-led government

Apr 20, 2021 @ 9:36Apr 29, 2021 @ 11:12 Diane Shalem 1530 Views Binyamin Netanyahu, Knesset committee, Yair Lapid

A double defeat at the new Knesset’s first post-election sitting on Monday, April 19, was a big step up for

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Netanyahu puts his trial behind him to fight full-on for re-election

Feb 9, 2021 @ 13:36Feb 22, 2021 @ 11:18 Diane Shalem 1770 Views Binyamin Netanyahu, coronavirus, elections, Gideon Saar, Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid

PM Binyamin Netanyahu threw off a persistent hurdle against his bid for re-election when, on Monday, Feb. 7, he asked

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Netanyahu caught left-footed, while rival Lapid postulates unity government with Likud

Feb 25, 2019 @ 10:35Mar 4, 2019 @ 14:27 Diane Shalem 2643 Views AIPAC, Binyamin Netanyahu, Blue-White, Israeli election campaign, Likud, Yair Lapid

Early electioneering finds Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu thrown back by setbacks and fierce assaults by critics and opponents in his

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