Yair Lapid

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Aug 19, 2024, 12:54 PM

So now we’re not allowed to eliminate terrorists?

Hezbollah propaganda video appearing to show underground missile facility in Lebanon. August 16, 2024 (Screenshot)

On the immoral, perilous notion that terrorist organizations and states have the right to retaliate against liberal democracies

Oct 25, 2023, 11:44 AM

Three questions for the global far left

How many Jews have to die for you to care? Can you distinguish feelings from facts? Do you know what you really are?

Mar 13, 2023, 3:38 PM

The deep democratic instinct of patriotic Israelis

Israelis wave national flags as they protest against the government's controversial judicial overhaul bill in Tel Aviv on March 9, 2023. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Together, we protect our democracy, our values, and ourselves from a government of bigots and extremists with unchecked power

Oct 31, 2022, 10:06 AM

It’s not about me – it’s about us

Yair Lapid (Courtesy Yesh Atid)

The choice is between those who offer only divisiveness and an Israel that is one extended family despite our differences, where every community feels they have a place

May 14, 2021, 3:21 PM

This is your country and we will not let the violence win

Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, on May 6, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

We will not abandon the country to those who try to exploit our every frustration to turn against each other

Oct 29, 2020, 6:04 PM

Yitzhak Rabin’s true legacy is trust

He pursued a simple truth: We need to keep trying to bring about peace. It angered a lot of people, it led to his assassination

Sep 24, 2020, 10:29 PM

The Netanyahu failure: A lockdown instead of a plan

With inaction and political bickering and with no clear exit strategy, the government has abandoned its public

Apr 22, 2020, 10:20 AM

Only the center can hold: Democracy and the battle of ideas

Yair Lapid speaks at a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling on him to quit, at Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, April 19, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Neither the left's radical universalism nor the extreme nationalism of Netanyahu's right: A manifesto for a shared Israeli future

Nov 10, 2019, 6:03 PM

Same old anti-Semitism, different Jews

French President Emmanuel Macron looks at a grave vandalized with a swastika during a visit at the Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim, on February 19, 2019, on the day of nationwide marches against a rise in anti-Semitic attacks. (Frederick Florin/Pool/AFP)

The hatred is always lurking, using different excuses for the same wicked ends. Today we have a response for it -- and it's not love

Sep 16, 2019, 10:05 AM

Imagine a new reality

(L-R) Gabi Ashkenazi, Yair Lapid, Benny Gantz and Moshe Ya'alon of the Blue and White party during a tour in Sderot, August 6, 2019. (Elad Malka)

Our coalition is here to buckle down and work: to reduce the cost of living, to rebuild the Foreign Ministry, to improve relations with Diaspora Jewry, and much more

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Yair Lapid is the former Prime Minister of Israel and currently the Leader of the Opposition in Israel.