Tag: Yair Lapid
Israeli lawmakers eye direct vote for prime minister as way out of gridlock
The Shas Party is pushing for a vote to reform Israel’s electoral system to enable a special election for prime minister, Israel’s Channel 12 reported on Sunday. The plan was the result of a meeting between...
Lapid steps up coalition-building efforts as Smotrich digs in heels
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid and Blue and White chief Benny Gantz met on Saturday evening for talks on forming a potential coalition in the event that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unable...
The differences between Israel’s 2020 and 2021 elections
Israelis will head to the polls next week for the fourth parliamentary elections in two years. The voters will determine which of the 13 parties polling near the electoral threshold will enter the 120-member...
Bennett nixes joining coalition led by Netanyahu or Lapid
Yamina Party leader Naftali Bennett on Wednesday reiterated that he will not back Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or join the center-left bloc of Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid after the March 23 elections.
With...
Benny Gantz: ‘Yair Lapid can’t form a government, and he knows it’
The Knesset still has not dispersed, and a date for the next election has not been set. But the turmoil in the anti-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu camp continued unabated and even intensified over the...
European, Israeli parliamentarians demand renewed EU-Israel dialogue
In an unprecedented move, over 100 parliamentarians from Europe and Israel—including Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid and Knesset member Zvi Hauser, who chairs the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee—have sent a joint letter...
Yair Lapid officially appointed leader of Israel’s opposition
Yesh Atid-Telem Party chairman and Knesset member Yair Lapid officially became the leader of the Israeli opposition on Wednesday.
Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin made the formal announcement about Lapid’s new role at the opening of...
Lapid: Blue and White perpetrated ‘greatest deception in Israeli history’
Yesh Atid Party head Yair Lapid on Tuesday blasted his former political partner Blue and White leader Benny Gantz for agreeing to a power-sharing agreement with incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing Gantz...
Challengers Gantz and Lapid attack Netanyahu-Trump relationship
Blue and White Party leaders Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid are establishing their diplomatic credentials in the immediate run-up to Israel’s March 2 election with an insult to a U.S. administration that has arguably...
Lapid talks Corbyn, anti-Semitism and foreign policy at Jerusalem conference
“Usually, you’re not supposed to interfere with the election in other countries, but in this case I’m going to make an exception. Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-Semite.”
So said Blue and White No. 2 Yair...