Yair Lapid

Yair Lapid, Hebrew: יאיר לפיד , (born November 5, 1963 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli politician of Yesh Atid ("There is a Future"). In 2021, he became the Alternate Prime Minister of Israel and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Bennett-Lapid Government.

Lapid is founder and party chair of Yesh Atid. He has been a Member of Knesset since 2013, and was finance minister in the Third Netanyahu Government from 2013 to 2014. On May 17, 2020 he became the Opposition Leader.

Previously he worked as an actor, journalist, news anchor and television presenter. He has also written several books.

Yair Lapid is the son of the late politician and journalist Tommy Lapid and playwright and novelist Shulamit Lapid.

Related pages

• Bennett-Lapid Government

References

• Bio at Knesset Website

Other websites

• Yair Lapid on IMDb

Current political leaders in the (24th) Knesset

Mansour Abbas (Ra'am)  • Sami Abu Shehadeh ((The Joint List) - Balad)  • Dror Aryeh ((HaTzionut HaDatit) - Noam)  • Itamar Ben-Gvir ((HaTzionut HaDatit) - Otzma Yehudit)  • Naftali Bennett (Yamina - HaYamin HeHadash)  • Aryeh Deri (Shas)  • Moshe Gafni (Yahadut HaTorah - Degel HaTorah)  •   Benny Gantz (Kahol Lavan - Hosen L'Yisrael)  •   Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz)  • Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid)  • Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beiteinu)  • Ya'akov Litzman ((Yahadut HaTorah) - Agudat Yisrael)  • Merav Michaeli (HaAvoda)  • Benjamin Netanyahu (HaLikud)  • Ayman Odeh (The Joint List - Hadash)  • Gideon Sa'ar (Tikva Hadasha)  • Bezalel Smotrich (HaTzionut HaDatit)  • Ofir Sofer ((HaTzionut HaDatit) - Atid Ehad)  • Ahmad Tibi ((The Joint List) - Ta'al)