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Gadi Eisenkot pushing for unified list with Bennett, Lapid to rival Netanyahu's Likud

Eisenkot’s office confirmed his proposal to the rival party leaders to The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, after it was initially reported on N12. 

Yair Lapid and Gadi Eisenkot embrace at draft law protests in Jerusalem on January 15, 2026.
Opposition leader and Yesh Atid head MK Yair Lapid speaks before a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, February 17, 2025

Knesset adopts Trump’s 20-point Gaza plan, coalition boycotts vote

Opposition head MK Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, May 26, 2025

Lapid calls UN's treatment of Israel a 'diplomatic equivalent of a psychotic episode'

 Edan Alexander.

Lapid: Edan Alexander was released because he is American


Meretz MK to become Israel’s highest ranking female Arab diplomat

Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi will be the first Israeli Arab woman to hold such a senior diplomatic position.

 MK GHAIDA RINAWIE ZOABI attends a Special  Committee on Arab Society Affairs meeting, in the  Knesset in June

Israeli embassy to Ukraine evacuates to Lviv

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett repeated his request that cabinet ministers do not comment on the situation in Ukraine.

 Israeli embassy moves from Kyiv to Lviv amid Russia-Ukraine tensions.

Lapid: ‘Everyone in their right minds’ must oppose IRGC ban reversal in Iran Deal

“If the IRGC isn’t a terrorist organization, what are they? A folk dancing troupe?” the Minister of Foreign Affairs said in a Yesh Atid function.

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) and Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy (R), 3 November 2021.

Lapid tweets to Iranian FM about regime's 'evil essence'

It was unclear which of Lapid's remarks Amirabdollahian found disturbing. A day earlier, Lapid said that negotiations for Iran to return to the 2015 nuclear deal were unlikely to end well for Israel.

 Foreign Minister and Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid at his faction's meeting, December 13, 2021.

Lapid’s Jewish Agency chairman deadline today

There is a strong possibility that the committee will receive a request from Lapid to extend the deadline.

 Foreign Minister Yair Lapid at the Knesset, November 15, 2021.

Bennett to Christians: Radical Islam wants to take over the world

Isaac Herzog stated that one year after signing the Abraham Accords, there is great progress in developing relations with new allies.

 Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett sits next to alternate Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid as he speaks during the first weekly cabinet meeting of his new government in Jerusalem June 20, 2021.

Lapid denies shift in policy after J Street meeting

J Street brought a delegation of Members of the US Congress to the Knesset on Monday, where they met with Yair Lapid and other politicians.

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (R). October 18, 2021.

Does passing budget guarantee Lapid will be PM? - analysis

Could recent political developments see Likud return to power in as little as two years?

 Foreign Minister Yair Lapid seen during a memorial ceremony marking 26 years since the assassination of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on October 18, 2021.

Pelosi reaffirms support for Israel in meeting with Lapid

“For many of us, it is in our DNA,” Pelosi said of support for Israel.

 FOREIGN MINISTER Yair Lapid visits US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, October 12, 2021

Biden administration to host Abraham Accords trilateral

Lapid will be in the US from October 12-14, on his first visit since taking office in May.

 ALTERNATE PRIME Minister Yair Lapid addresses his Knesset faction in July against the backdrop of his party slogan: ‘We came to change.’ (