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The entry into politics Chairman Yesh Atid made with a clear goal: the prime minister's residence. Now that he has received the mandate, it is time for the revenge government


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Within touching distance of the Prime Minister: Lapid's road from the screen towards Balfour

The doors of a chairman have a future opened for him easily, whether because of talent or because of family pedigree. He paved his way as a journalist and cultural figure into the mainstream. His entry into politics, years later, had a clear goal: the prime minister's residence. It's time to dump her and move to Balfour

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President Rivlin: "Grants the mandate to MK Yair Lapid" (Photo: GPO)

Today, May 5, 2021, is the 200th anniversary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte. In one of the better biographies written about the legendary ruler of France, Bonaparte was described as a man full of contrasts. According to the book Napoleon was "as talented as a demon, an exciting adventurer, a commander with incredible charisma and a degree of charlatanry, an attractive and repulsive leader." The writer was the late Hezi Shelach. His son, former MK Ofer Shelach, an amateur historian himself, could certainly have found parallels between Napoleon's mythological figure and the chairman of the party he helped form. Not only in the altimeter, but also in the ability to lead a revolution.



Yair Lapid's height is a rather negligible matter, one that could have been ignored if Lapid himself had not insisted on making it such a dominant matter.

Official photographers know exactly from what angles it is allowed and forbidden to photograph it.

Artificial aids were required to "elevate" him during speeches and lectures.

He used to tell about the time he met Joe Biden, being Vice President of the United States.

"If I had your hair, I would be President of the United States," Biden told him.

Lapid, according to legend, responded: "If I had your height - I would be the President of the United States."

One of them did not laugh.

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Insisted on making the matter of height so dominant.

Lapid (Photo: Danny Maron)

If there is such a thing as "first Israel", Yair Lapid could have been the poster boy of the sector.

He spent his infancy in London, where his father, Yosef "Tommy" Lapid, worked for the Maariv newspaper.

He spent his childhood in the journalists' housing in Tel Aviv, in a neighborhood with some of the most powerful people in the bar in the 1960s.

In the common yard of 14 families of journalists, he played with the children of editors and journalists from Maariv, Yedioth Ahronoth, the viewer and more.

His mother, Shulamit Lapid, began writing children's books and later became a respected author, who, among other things, founded the female detective character in Hebrew literature.



The son of the then director general of the Israel Broadcasting Authority naturally turned to writing for the military newspaper in the camp. He later began writing for Maariv. The doors opened for him easily, whether because of talent or because of family pedigree. Either way, he jumped at the chance and carved his way to heart. The Israeli mainstream.



He has published his personal series on quite a few refrigerators around the country for almost 20 years.

He later became a commercial star, starred in the film "Singing the Siren", and began directing Channel One's "Weekend" program.

His predecessors in office were Dudu Topaz, Rivka Michaeli, Ehud Manor and Yaron London.

Great shoes to fill, but Torch proved he did not come to be another facilitator.

(Photo: Official website, Walla system!)

"The Man with the Gel" decided to give a corner in the show to comedian Gil Koptash, who gave a topical and humorous interpretation of this week's episode.

This was the first time that Yair Lapid became the enemy of the ultra-Orthodox parties, who announced that if the corner was not abolished, they would overthrow the government.

Security at the channel's studios was stepped up, but Lapid, who received great support from secular viewers, refused to surrender.



In between he has published quite a few books, including the Josh Shirman series, a detective character who was deeply influenced by Raymond Chandler's Philip Merlot.

In addition, Lapid also sinned in hymns.

He wrote "Live in a Ham" for the mango band, Rita wrote "The Sailor's Beloved Song" and for Rami Kleinstein he translated Bob Dylan's "Young Forever".

By the way, the translation of the song was so Yair Lapidi, that in the ACUM records it was mistakenly stated for years that Lapid is the original lyricist of the song.

The goal was clear: the prime minister's residence in Balfour

In 2008 he began presenting News 2's "Studio Six", which also led to a change in his image.

The gel is abandoned, as is the coloring of the hair.

The black t-shirts were covered by a suit and tie.

Eyal Berkowitz asked him during an interview when he was running for prime minister.

Lapid grinned in response, but he, too, knew it was only a matter of time.

In 2012 he officially announced his retirement from the media and the establishment of the Yesh Atid party.



The entry into politics came after a lot of meetings, with a lot of friends from the field of culture and the press, a lot of alcohol, a lot of cigars and a lot of joints (the last detail, for no apparent reason, he continues to deny).

The goal was clear: the prime minister's residence on Balfour Street in Jerusalem.

He surrounded himself with a hive of talented, and mostly ambitious, people.

The joke among those close to him said that even the cleaner in the party offices dreams of advancing and being the cleaner in the prime minister's house.

A change in his image.

Lapid presents Ulpan Shishi, 2009 (Photo: Official website, Walla!)

As the leader of the extremist center, Lapid left himself enough maneuvering space between the two blocs. This is what helped him enter without blinking the Netanyahu government as an inexperienced finance minister. His ideological fluidity allows him to attack the ultra-Orthodox on the one hand, and insult the Arab Knesset members on the other. In the past, when he needed it, he founded the "Brotherhood" with Naftali Bennett. Now, he hopes to re-establish this alliance to form a government. The decision to relinquish to Bennett the first term in the rotation for prime minister appears to be strategically correct, and even noble. On the other hand, if Bennett betrays him it may still turn out to be his private waterloo.



Yair Lapid was not the first to form a central government.

His father, for example, did it before him.

He is not the first to promise "sanity" or "change" without ideological coverage for the beautiful words.

He is probably not the first to try to replace Netanyahu.

Now it only remains to be seen if the boy who grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth but dreamed of protesting a la Bob Dylan (minus the marijuana) will be able to sweep after him a torn country to a safe shore.



In fact, at this stage, it seems that his supporters will also be content with just a slight deviation from the direction in which the ship called Israel is being swept.

Many good people got the opportunity before him and failed.

Now he seems older, more experienced and more cunning - in other words: more Bibi.

Not sure that's a compliment.

It is not certain that this is what the poet meant when he promised that he would come to change.

On the other hand, he also knows he will not really stay young forever.

In small

Legend has it that Tommy Lapid's first decision as justice minister was to hang in all offices in the building a quote from Bialik's "On the Slaughter": "And if there is justice - it will appear immediately!".

Truth be told: there is not much logic in a government led by Naftali Bennett with ministers from Meretz and Labor and with the support of an Arab party.

In fact, there is no logic in such a coalition, but there is poetic justice in it.



All the people who were harmed by Benjamin Netanyahu mobilized together, put the disputes aside, and also the ego, and decided to go together for the change that everyone promised to their voters.

Naftali Bennett, Gideon Saar, Yair Lapid, Avigdor Lieberman, Bnei Gantz, Zeev Elkin, Sharan Hashakel, Peka Peka and Shasha Shasha - all the political corpses that Netanyahu thought he left to bleed to death on the side of the road came back to life.

It's their time.

This is not really the "government of change", this is completely the "government of revenge".

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