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Yair Lapid Is No Cause For Optimism

Election Analysis

Emily Hauser on why nobody should expect the Yesh Atid leader to usher in a new era of peace in Israel.

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In the lead-up to yesterday’s elections, there was real concern in certain circles (and happy certainty in others) that Naftali Bennett’s HaBayit HaYehudi (Jewish Home) Party was poised to sweep into the Knesset’s second place position, directly behind a weakened Likud—weakened in part by Bennett himself, a man who gives...

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