Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Abe Silberstein http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:10:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 High Marks for Lapid http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/high-marks-for-lapid/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/high-marks-for-lapid/#comments Sun, 19 May 2013 02:29:07 +0000 Abe Silberstein http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=127242 If you’re an articulate and famous ‘outsider’ determined to stand up to the old political order, you’re going to do well. But just the once. This is the lesson Yair Lapid, Israeli Finance Minister and charismatic chairman of Yesh Atid, has learned in the past few weeks as he seeks to enact a lite austerity [...]

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