The event of Yair Lapid's entry into the Prime Minister's Office, a year before his agreed entry into office, as stipulated in the agreement between him and Naftali Bennett - is no small political explosion, and should not be underestimated, especially by those who see the 14th Prime Minister hollow, uneducated and superficial .
Even if Lapid's time is set at about four months, until the election - 120 days in the Israeli reality - they may not be an eternity, but still a long time, in which formative events can take place that can reshape the upcoming election results.
Lapid entered the Prime Minister's Office at the age of 58, 12 years older than Benjamin Netanyahu in his first term.
After a decade, we can already talk about political experience, the positions of finance minister, foreign minister and acting prime minister, and also the chaotic nature of Israeli politics and its meteoric success in forming a coalition of eight coalition members from all corners of the Knesset. Significant ability to work together. And most importantly: Lapid inspires confidence, probably the most significant and missing feature of our sick politics.
This week, Yair Netanyahu wrote about Yair Lapid, whose most in-depth book he has read is an IKEA catalog.
The entire current political event until the election will be marked by Netanyahu's attempt to achieve the 61st seat.
It is currently making a significant effort, albeit not for heaven's sake, to create a softer climate and political language, in order to encourage the liberal right, which is fed up with it, to return to voting for the Likud.
He commands everyone to draw a line, but the enormous damage was done to him at home.
Shimon Peres had no formal education and did not serve in the army, but was a great scholar and scholar, and his contribution to Israel's nuclear security (according to foreign sources) thanks to his ties with France, made Israel a regional power and more.
Levy Eshkol was the most significant civilian prime minister in the history of Israel, but in his wisdom, Moshe Dayan was allowed to enter the Ministry of Defense on the eve of the Six Day War.
But the time of heroes, especially in Israel, is limited, and the Yom Kippur and Galilee Galilee wars have taught us that even great generals and field marshals like Dayan, Sharon or Raful can crash on the battlefield due to destructive and erroneous conceptions, while a gray Histadrut official named Amir Peretz The Iron Dome project is changing reality as he sits in his chair in the Kirya.
When he enters the new office, Lapid holds about 21 seats, and unlike his partner Bennett, his leadership legitimacy is not really in doubt.
And Netanyahu, who wanted to form an alternative government without elections this week, also knows this.
Netanyahu knows that Lapid is a dangerous opponent who could keep him out of the prime minister's chair.
In the next poll, his power is likely to increase, presumably at the expense of the center-left parties, but when the election results can be decided on Mandate's edge, the prime minister's suit has significance.
His conduct over the past year, and even earlier, shows that unlike Netanyahu, Lapid learns from his mistakes and does not repeat them.
I do not know how to talk about "zero mistakes", because in the Israeli reality this is not possible, but this year taught that Lapid, who is perhaps the right-wing marker in the new Israeli politics, realized that the same toxic identity politics that threatens Israel from within than its enemies from outside.
Always remember, empires are falling from within, and although difficult, it is possible and perhaps obligatory to connect and work together with right-wingers, settlers, leftists, religious and Arabs.
The first Abu Yair, Yosef Tommy Lapid, was a liberal right-winger like his friend Ephraim Kishon, with whom he worked in the 1950s in the Oiklet, the Hungarian newspaper in the Hebrew language.
When he was the director general of the Broadcasting Authority, an appointment on behalf of the Likud, Abu Yair banned Channel 1 reporters sitting in that building in Romema from interviewing Palestinian leaders. He was then a bit like Golda, who said there was no such thing as a Palestinian. , Which hovered over almost all prime ministers in Israel - Begin, Shamir, Sharon, Olmert and even Netanyahu - also moderated the father Lapid, who was one of the fathers of the center parties, that Yair is his successor.
Lapid is not only a wealthy Tel Avivite from Ramat Aviv, but a man who, until entering politics, created, wrote, broadcast and discounted news and current affairs.
He grew up as an accumulator, but in a home shrouded in Holocaust remembrance, and was exposed within his home and family to the pain of bereavement and dealing with children with special needs.
When he translated Dylan's words to "forever young" sung by Rami Kleinstein, he wrote: "That you grow up to be right, that you know how to see the light, and find the truth in the great darkness," he wrote and did not expect to wish it once for himself.
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