Yair Lapid is a Tel Aviv-born center-left Israeli politician. He is the founder and chairman of the Yesh Atid political party.
Lapid served as the alternate Prime Minister to Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister in a 2021 coalition government. He had also previously served as Finance Minister in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government from 2013-2014.
Yair Lapid began his public career as a journalist and TV presenter, before branching out into politics in 2012 with the formation of Yesh Atid.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid claimed that the judicial reform negotiations at the President's Residence were stopped by the coalition.
The coalition leaders are reportedly considering passing two parts of the reform by the end of the Knesset's summer session on July 31.
Shame is a weapon used by abusers and predators across the social and religious spectrum, and we have got to take it away from them.
"If it is signed now, it will be a colossal failure by the government," Lapid charged, calling on Netanyahu to go to Washington to prevent the deal.
Freezing the talks for judicial reform now doesn’t punish Netanyahu. It does, however, punish the Israeli public.
All polls see Prime Minister Netanyahu's Likud party and Gantz's National Unity party as the two biggest parties by far, with Yair Lapid's party trailing behind.
Coalition MKs who voted for Elharrar did so out of 'decency,' Lapid says • National Unity's Ze'ev Elkin: I knew of coalition MKs voting for Elharrar
Lapid and Gantz: No point in continuing talks if committee does not convene • At least four coalition MKs vote for Yesh Atid's Karin Elharrar
The Yesh Atid head began his testimony on Monday, and will, in the end, finish around noon on Tuesday.
The drama on Monday was not in the content of Lapid's testimony, but rather in the very fact that he was on the stand testifying.
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