Posts Tagged: Yair Lapid
Wheeling and Dealing Continues as Speculation About Next Israeli Government Gains Traction
Speculation continues as to what the next Israeli government will look like as reports surface and are just as quickly denied. Early Friday...
Report: Abbas Seeks Meeting With Lapid
Israel Hayom - The Palestinians see the results of Tuesday's election in Israel as a chance to break the stalemate in the peace...
Netanyahu Faces New Challenges
The unexpected election results have created daunting challenges for Prime Minister Netanyahu. Many Israelis dislike Netanyahu. He has personality deficiencies and, like every Israeli leader...
Opinion: Inside the Israeli Elections
Leave it to the Israeli electorate to produce such a complicated election result that confounded most analysts' projections. In general, the election was...
Two Epistemic Closures: The GOP and Israel-Critics
What do Tuesday's election results remind us of? They should recall the result of November's U.S. elections. Against all evidence - and here I do mean all...
Algemeiner Editor Dovid Efune: There Was No Leftward Shift in Israeli Election (VIDEO)
Algemeiner Editor Dovid Efune appeared on Real News TV Wednesday, a day after elections in Israel to discuss the results with host Amy Holmes. Asked for...
In Israel, Likud-Beitenu Yesh Atid Coalition Begins to Take Form
Despite reports that Shelly Yachimovich, the leader of Israel's Labor party attempted a move to block Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from forming Israel's next government...
The Changing of the Israeli Guard
Israel had a party on Election Day. The weather was beautiful and people went to the beach and the parks by the tens of...
Israel’s Emphatic Response to Obama’s Thinly Veiled Threat
There is much to be said about Bloomberg Columnist Jeffrey Goldberg's recent report on President Obama's current attitude towards Israel, where he claimed that the...
Israel’s Lapid Says Blocking Majority Off the Table, Hopes to Work with Netanyahu
Times of Israel - Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid quashed any talk of forming a blocking majority to keep Benjamin Netanyahu from staying on...
Benjamin Netanyahu to be Next Israeli Prime Minister
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will regain his position after his Likud-Beytenu party alliance won 31 Knesset mandates, followed by Yesh Atid at 19, exit polls...
Report: Lapid Possible Foreign Minister in Next Israeli Government
Conversations between Israel's Likud and Yesh Atid political parties have revolved around the appointment of Yair Lapid being named Israel's foreign minister, Israeli daily Maariv...
What is Lapid’s Position on Jerusalem?
The big surprise of Israel's election is the rise of Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid (There is a Future) party, which won 19 seats in the...
Day After Elections, Coalition Building Begins for Netanyahu
With the election behind him, the real difficulties begin for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he tries to build a broad coalition, a task...
