Yair Lapid

Yair Lapid is a member of Knesset and the chairman of the Yesh Atid Party.

Opposition head MK Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, May 26, 2025

Yair Lapid: As Iran vows our destruction, Israel unites - opinion

 Head of opposition and head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on June 9, 2025.

Opposition leader Lapid: As Iran vows our destruction, Israel unites behind Netanyahu - opinion

Opposition head Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on September 4, 2024

Yair Lapid: Israel must embrace democratic, liberal ideals to defeat its enemies - opinion


Why each generation must know our Exodus - comment

Egypt is a reminder that reality is not a given; it is the decisions we make, the story we tell, and our ability to choose our own path in life.

 Leader of opposition Yair Lapid attends in solidarity with the families of the hostages in Tel Aviv, February 24, 2024

Lapid to 'Post': How Israel can involve PA in post-war Gaza - opinion

We should help establish an Arab-international coalition to manage daily life in Gaza. But a precondition of states like Saudi Arabia and the UAE is that the Palestinian Authority be involved.

 Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid is seen in Jerusalem, on January 1, 2024.

Yair Lapid on Int'l Holocaust Remembrance Day: Lots of people saw

Lots of people heard the screams from the Mauthausen concentration camp where my grandfather was murdered.

A World War Two memorial of mass killings on the banks of the Danube River is seen in Budapest, February 11, 2014. A main Jewish group in Hungary has recently voted to boycott official Holocaust commemorations this year unless they more clearly show the role of local citizens in the Nazi deportation

The difference between Judaism and haredi parties

My argument with them over the equality of our national burden isn’t about religious law either. It’s about mutual responsibility. It’s about the social contract.

"You are not above the law." MK Yair Lapid speaks at a rally protesting Supreme Court override bill

Yair Lapid: We’re not stupid

Blue and White leader tells how the Center can bridge the gap between Right and Left.

Blue and White No.2 Yair Lapid

The U.N. and antisemitism: 10-year report card

It’s the biased approach, the disgraceful discrimination of UN bodies when it comes to Jews.

SEATS NORMALLY occupied by the United States delegation are empty one day after the US announced its withdrawal from the UN’s Human Rights Council, at the United Nations in Geneva on June 20, 2018

Not against the ultra-Orthodox, against cynics

The equality of national burden effort isn’t meant to be a dispute with the ultra-Orthodox; its goal is to deal with a problem that isn’t going away.

Israeli soldiers of Caracal battalion

It’s time to stop kowtowing to Turkey

Israel's great relationship with Turkey is over, here's what's needed.

Supporters listen to the speech by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan during a rally for the upcoming referendum in Istanbul, Turkey

Celebrating the murder of innocents

Can Israel afford to trust a man who says that his greatest achievement is murdering innocent people at point-blank range?

Palestinians stone throwing youths clash with Israeli troops

B’Tselem’s lies

B’Tselem will do what it always does and try to use this report to delegitimize Israel in the international community and strengthen those who wish to see Israel disappear.

Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid stands in a house damaged by a rocket, fired by Palestinian militants, that landed in the southern town of Sderot