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Yair Lapid in Jacob Goldwasser's 1991 film Beyond the Sea
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Yair Lapid is about to take over the PM position in Israel. Before entering politics in 2012, Lapid was an author, TV presenter and news anchor. The centrist Yesh Atid party, which he founded, became the second-largest party in the Knesset by winning 19 seats in its first legislative election in 2013. The greater-than-anticipated results contributed to Lapid's reputation as a leading centrist.
Lapid was born in Tel Aviv, the son of journalist and politician Yosef "Tommy" Lapid, who also served as Justice Minister, and novelist and playwright Shulamit (Giladi) Lapid. His father was born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (now Serbia) to Hungarian Jewish parents, and his maternal grandfather was an Ashkenazi Jew from Transylvania, Romania. He has a sister, Merav, who is a clinical psychologist. Another sister, Michal, died in a car accident in 1984. Both of his grandmothers were alive when his parents moved to Israel. His great-grandmother Hermione Lampel was arrested in Serbia and sent to Auschwitz, where she was murdered in a gas chamber.
Published: OCTOBER 7, 2012 09:47 Yair Lapid wants to follow his father, Tommy, into the Knesset, but without his anti-religious agenda.
Lapid, whose father was a Holocaust survivor, spoke out against Poland's controversial Holocaust bill, which would criminalize accusing the Polish nation of being complicit in the Holocaust. Lapid said: "No Polish law will change history. Poland was complicit in the Holocaust. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered on its soil without them having met any German officer." He added that his "grandmother was murdered in Poland by Germans and Poles". Lapid also wrote that there were "Polish death camps". The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum stated that Lapid's claims about alleged Polish cooperation in the Holocaust were a "conscious lie" and that Lapid was "using Holocaust as a political game" that mocked the victims, also likening his allegation to the claims made by Holocaust deniers.
In February 2018, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that "there were Jewish perpetrators" of the Holocaust, "not only German perpetrators". Lapid condemned Morawiecki's words, saying: "The perpetrators are not the victims. The Jewish state will not allow the murdered to be blamed for their own murder."
Lapid's book, Memories After My Death, chronicles his father's life and observations as Israel evolved over its first sixty years.
On 17 May 2020, Lapid became the Leader of the Opposition, after the thirty-fifth government of Israel was sworn in. On 5 May 2021, he began talks with other parties to try to form a coalition government. On 2 June 2021, Lapid informed Israeli President Reuven Rivlin that he had agreed to a rotation government with Naftali Bennett and was prepared to replace the incumbent prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The new government was sworn in on 13 June 2021, so it's been in operation for one year and a week.
The Knesset today, 6/22/22, voted to dissolve, in a preliminary
reading of a bill expected to be finalized next week. Once the bill is
passed, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will take over as Prime Minister
of the interim government from Naftali Bennett, as per their
coalition agreement, until new elections are held or unless the Likud
can manage to form a new government before the Knesset takes a
final vote to dissolve.
The Likud is reportedly in negotiations with Defense Minister Benny Gantz, Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked and Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar to convince them to join a Netanyahu led government.
Prime Minister Bennett said that he will not support a
proposed bill to block opposition leader Benjamin
Netanyahu from running in the next elections. The bill has
very little hope of passing and, even if it does, could be struck
down by the Supreme Court.
Lapid is a leading proponent of a deep bipartisan US-Israel relationship. He has upbraided Netanyahu for alienating American Democrats: "The fact that the [Israeli] government completely identifies with the conservative, evangelical faction of the Republican party is dangerous."
When Jewish Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch's request to attend the embassy opening in Jerusalem was ignored, Lapid said, "There's no way the government of Israel didn't notice this. It's the job of the Prime Minister's office to look at the list and say: We are nonpartisan and are not just attached to Republicans."
Since Trump's actions as a Republican was to stand by Israel with opening
the US Embassy in Jerusalem after all these years of past USA presidents
promising but failing to do this, which was indeed a miracle, and the Demon-
strative Democratic Squad who is constantly condemning Israel, Israel can
only see Republicans in shimmering golden-light. Yet the EU had on its
agenda, to create a 2-state situation for the Palestinians, and Trump actually
eased up the pressure on Israel through the good understanding that his
son-in law, Jerad Kushner, had with him, giving Trump another pat on the
back.
On the worrisome side of Lapid, In 2013, when Yesh Atid sat in the government, Lapid pushed for increased public transportation on Shabbat, as opposed to the current law that mandates most public transportation shut down.
Additionally, Lapid strongly supports instituting a civil marriage track in Israel. Currently, marriage and divorce for Jews are controlled by the Chief Rabbinate. The Chief Rabbinate will not officiate marriages between Jews and non-Jews, and some Israelis from the Soviet Union—who are not Jewish according to Jewish law—cannot marry in Israel. Although Israel recognizes civil marriages that are performed abroad, there is no mechanism for performing civil marriage in Israel. In 2015, under Lapid's leadership, Yesh Atid championed a bill to institute civil marriage, but the bill was defeated in the Knesset, with 50 votes against and 39 in favor.
In the kitchens of the Ramat Rachel Hotel in Jerusalem, every leaf is washed meticulously, every grain of rice inspected for bugs and every cut of meat checked to ensure it complies with kashrut - Jewish dietary rules.
The man in charge of this is Yaakov Asulin. Every day he, along with at least two other supervisors, makes sure that the chefs and restaurant staff keep to meticulous standards when it comes to keeping kosher. But he is not employed by the hotel. His boss instead is the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, the supreme religious body of Israel in charge of ruling over all religious matters including weddings and divorce.
The understanding is that Israel IS a Jewish nation. This is one of the major
reasons Jews wanted their own country-to be able to have their own very
Jewish laws. Many modern people of today have not realized what this all
entails, but there is a vast part of the country that does. Though Lapid had
good intentions helping people in a quandry, he was tampering on Hellen-
izing the established Jewish law. It remains.
It was another Hungarian, Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), who saw the need for a Jewish state. Beginning in late 1895, Herzl wrote Der Judenstaat (The State of the Jews), which was published February 1896 to immediate acclaim and controversy. The book argued that the Jewish people should leave Europe for Palestine, their historic homeland. That was the first step taken in Israel's birth.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yair_Lapid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hungarian_Jews#Writers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Herzl#:~:text=Beginning%20in%20late%201895%2C%20Herzl,for%20Palestine%2C%20their%20historic%20homeland.
https://yeahthatskosher.com/2018/08/20-new-kosher-restaurants-in-israel/
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