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Israel Election 2021 | 'Why I am voting for Yesh Atid'

By Terry Newman
 The big ideological battle of the day is Centrism vs the rest. Centrism not as the middle point... Read more > March 2021

Yair Lapid is now the leader of Israel’s ‘democracy camp’

By Paul Gross
 Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid’s recent 6,000-word essay set out a centrist vision of Israel’s future and warned... Read more > May 2020

JN-BICOM 2015 Conference: Yair Lapid in conversation with Bronwen Maddox

By Yair Lapid
 Leader of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid speaking to Prospect editor Bronwen Maddox the BICOM-Jewish News ‘UK/Israel Shared Strategic Challenges Conference’. Read more > Summer 2015

Social Justice in Israel

By Tali Nir and Marc Grey
 How much social justice can we really expect from the Nineteenth Knesset? The Association for Civil Rights in... Read more > Autumn 2013

Yair Lapid is the heart of all things: a view from the Centre

By Gil Messing
 The success of Yesh Atid, winning 19 Knesset seats just one year after its formation is politically dramatic... Read more > Spring 2013

There is a future with Yair Lapid

By Benjy Goldberg
 Yesh Atid have brought a reforming passion to Israeli politics. Yair Lapid and his party are prepared for... Read more > Spring 2013

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Our Voice of the Fortnight is part of our series on Gaza after Hamas, and comes from Fathom contributor Rob Geist Pinfold, speaking here to France 24.

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Israeli soldiers and Ultra Orthodox jews pray at a staging area near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, 28 November 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

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