Yair Lapid

Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid
יאיר לפיד
	Official portrait, 2022
Leader of the Opposition
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2 January 2023
Prime Minister	Benjamin Netanyahu
Preceded by	Benjamin Netanyahu
	In office; 17 May 2020 – 6 April 2021
Prime Minister	Benjamin Netanyahu
Preceded by	Shelly Yachimovich (2019)
Succeeded by	Benjamin Netanyahu
14th Prime Minister of Israel
	In office; 1 July 2022 – 29 December 2022
President	Isaac Herzog
Alternate	Naftali Bennett
Preceded by	Naftali Bennett
Succeeded by	Benjamin Netanyahu
2nd Alternate Prime Minister of Israel
	In office; 13 June 2021 – 30 June 2022
Prime Minister	Naftali Bennett
Preceded by	Benny Gantz
Succeeded by	Naftali Bennett
Leader of Yesh Atid
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 May 2012
Preceded by	Position established
Member of the Knesset
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 5 February 2013
Ministerial roles
Faction represented in the Knesset
Personal details
Born	5 November 1963 (age 60); Tel Aviv, Israel
Political party	Yesh Atid
Spouse(s)	Lihi Lapid
Children	3
Parents	Tommy Lapid; Shulamit Lapid
Occupation	Politician; journalist;

Yair Lapid (Hebrew: יאיר לפיד, born 5 November 1963 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli politician of Yesh Atid ("There is a Future"). He was the Prime Minister of Israel from July 2022 to December 2022. He has been the Leader of the Opposition since 2023, serving in this position before from 2020 to 2021.

Lapid is the founder and party chair of Yesh Atid. He has been a Member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset since 2013, and was Finance Minister in the Third Netanyahu Government from 2013 to 2014. From 17 May 2020 to 13 June 2021, he was the Leader of the Opposition.

In June 2021, he became the Alternate Prime Minister of Israel and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Bennett-Lapid Government.

On 20 June 2022, then-Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced that he would call for a vote to dissolve the Knesset and that he would step down as prime minister shortly after the vote. Bennett resigned on 30 June 2022 and Lapid became prime minister on 1 July 2022.^[2]

During the 2022 Israeli legislative election on 1 November 2022, his Yesh Atid party gained 7 seats, but his coalition partners lost seats, and his government lost the majority in the Knesset. He was succeeded as Prime Minister of Israel by Benjamin Netanyahu on 29 December 2022, and became Leader of the Opposition again.

Previously Lapid worked as an actor, journalist, news anchor and television presenter. He has also written several books, including novels, children's books, a thriller and an autobiography. He was also a songwriter for numerous Israeli musicians. Some of the songs he wrote became hits which reached the top of the music charts in Israel.

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

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Lapid in the early 1980s while serving as a military correspondent for the IDF's weekly newspaper
Yair Lapid in Jacob Goldwasser's 1991 film Beyond the Sea
Yair Lapid giving a speech at Sapir Academic College in November 2015
Lapid (r.) with Benny Gantz in 2019
Lapid (l.) with president Reuven Rivlin in May 2021
Prime Minister Lapid with U.S. President Biden, 2022