Yair Lapid
Highlights
- Yair Lapid becomes Israel’s new prime minister
- tenure of five months
- PM Modi tweeted congratulations
Israel New PM: Yair Lapid has been elected as the 14th Prime Minister of Israel. According to the report, the tenure of the new Prime Minister will be only 5 months. He has been elected as the caretaker prime minister till the elections to be held on 1 November. Let us tell you that in the last 3 years, the Prime Minister will be elected for the 5th time in Israel. On Thursday, Lapid took the handover from outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. Along with this, he said that we will try to make Israel a Jewish, strong, democratic state.
PM Modi and US President congratulated
After becoming the new Prime Minister of Israel, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Yar Lapid by tweeting. He said that I congratulate Yer Lapid on becoming the 14th Prime Minister of Israel. With this he wrote that as we complete 30 years of full diplomatic relations, I look forward to continuing our strategic partnership.
Joe Biden also congratulated
US President Joe Biden congratulated Yair Lapid on becoming the new prime minister of Israel. He tweeted, “Congratulations to Yer Lapid, the new and alternative Prime Minister of Israel. Thanking Naftali Bennett, he said that your friendship has been very important to me in the last one year. I look forward to celebrating the unbreakable US-Israel partnership. See you both in July.
This will be Lapid’s first agenda
Lapid will have a meeting with Ronen Barr, the head of the Shin Bet security agency at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, on the first day in his office. Here is his first agenda. After this, PM Lapid will discuss bringing back the remains of two Israeli civilians and two Defense Forces soldiers back to their homeland. Their remains are kept by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
who is yer lapid
Yer Lapid was born on 5 November 1963. He is an Israeli politician and former journalist. He was elected as the 14th Prime Minister of Israel on 1 July 2022. Prior to this he served as the alternate head. Also served as Minister of Israel and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2021 to 2022. Lapid also serves as chairman of centrist Yash Atid, who previously served as Leader of the Opposition from 2020 to 2021 and as Finance Minister from 2013 to 2014.
Lapid used to be a news anchor
Before joining politics in 2012, Lapid was a writer, TV presenter and news anchor. In 1988, at the age of just 25, Lapid was appointed editor of Yedioth Tel Aviv. Joe Yedioth was a local newspaper published by the Ahronoth Group. In 1991, he began writing a weekly column in the weekend supplement of a nationwide newspaper – first for Maariv, and later for its competitor, Yedioth Ahronoth. The name of his column, “Where is the money?”, became his political slogan decades later.
Lapid’s political journey
Lapid founded the centrist Yash Atid Party. His party became the second largest party in the Knesset by winning 19 seats in its first legislative election in 2013. From 2013 to 2014, following his coalition agreement with Likud, Lapid served as Minister of Finance in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. In 2013, Lapid was named first in the list of “The Most Influential Jews in the World” by the Jerusalem Post. He was also cited as one of the leading foreign policy global thinkers in 2013 and ranked by Time magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World”. He served on the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, and the Sub-Committee on Intelligence and Security Services.
On 17 May 2020, Lapid became the leader of the opposition, following the swearing-in of Israel’s thirty-fifth government. On 5 May 2021, he began talks with other parties to try to form a coalition government. On 2 June 2021, Lapid Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin said that he had agreed to a rotation government with Naftali Bennett and was ready to replace the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
